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Using Machine Learning to Train a Wearable Device for Measuring Students' Cognitive Load during Problem-Solving Activities Based on Electrodermal Activity, Body Temperature, and Heart Rate: Development of a Cognitive Load Tracker for Both Personal and Classroom Use by Romine, William L, Schroeder, Noah L, Graft, Josephine, Yang, Fan, Sadeghi, Reza, Zabihimayvan, Mahdieh, Kadariya, Dipesh, Banerjee, Tanvi

“…Automated tracking of physical fitness has sparked a health revolution by allowing individuals to track their own physical activity and health in real time…”
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Measuring Changes in Interest in Science and Technology at the College Level in Response to Two Instructional Interventions by Romine, William L., Sadler, Troy D.

“…Improving interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is crucial to widening participation and success in STEM studies at the college…”
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A closer look at the items within three measures of evolution acceptance: analysis of the MATE, I-SEA, and GAENE as a single corpus of items by Romine, William L., Todd, Amber N., Walter, Emily M.

“…Background Current direct Likert measures for evolution acceptance include the MATE, GAENE, and I-SEA. Pros and cons of each of these instruments have been…”
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Evaluating the current state of evolution acceptance instruments: a research coordination network meeting report by Barnes, M. Elizabeth, Aini, Rahmi Q., Collins, James P., Dunk, Ryan D. P., Holt, Emily A., Jensen, Jamie, Klein, Joanna R., Misheva, Taya, Nadelson, Louis S., Reiss, Michael J., Romine, William L., Shtulman, Andrew, Townley, Amanda L., Wiles, Jason R., Zheng, Yi, Brownell, Sara E.

“…Hundreds of studies have explored student evolution acceptance because evolution is a core concept of biology that many undergraduate biology students struggle…”
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Learning Science Content through Socio-Scientific Issues-Based Instruction: A Multi-Level Assessment Study by Sadler, Troy D, Romine, William L, Topçu, Mustafa Sami

“…Science educators have presented numerous conceptual and theoretical arguments in favor of teaching science through the exploration of socio-scientific issues…”
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Assessment of scientific literacy: Development and validation of the Quantitative Assessment of Socio‐Scientific Reasoning (QuASSR) by Romine, William L., Sadler, Troy D., Kinslow, Andrew T.

“…We describe the development and validation of the Quantitative Assessment of Socio‐scientific Reasoning (QuASSR) in a college context. The QuASSR contains 10…”
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Validation of the Learning Progression-Based Assessment of Modern Genetics in a College Context by Todd, Amber, Romine, William L

“…Building upon a methodologically diverse research foundation, we adapted and validated the "Learning Progression-based Assessment of Modern Genetics" (LPA-MG)…”
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Understanding patterns of evolution acceptance—A new implementation of the Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (MATE) with Midwestern university students by Romine, William L., Walter, Emily M., Bosse, Ephiram, Todd, Amber N.

“…We validate the Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (MATE) on undergraduate students using the Rasch model and utilize the MATE to explore…”
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A simple model for the viscosity of rhyolites as a function of temperature, pressure and water content by Romine, William L., Whittington, Alan G.

“…In order to better constrain the viscosity (η) of high-silica rhyolite at low to moderate water contents (X), which represent water saturation at near-surface…”
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Empirical Validation of a Modern Genetics Progression Web for College Biology Students by Todd, Amber, Romine, William L

“…Research in learning progressions (LPs) has been essential towards building understanding of how students' ideas change over time. There has been little work,…”
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Development and Validation of the Learning Progression–Based Assessment of Modern Genetics in a High School Context by TODD, AMBER, ROMINE, WILLIAM L., COOK WHITT, KATAHDIN

“…ABSTRACT We describe the development, validation, and use of the Learning Progression‐Based Assessment of Modern Genetics (LPA‐MG) in a high school biology…”
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Development and Application of a Novel Rasch-Based Methodology for Evaluating Multi-Tiered Assessment Instruments: Validation and Utilization of an Undergraduate Diagnostic Test of the Water Cycle by Romine, William L, Schaffer, Dane L, Barrow, Lloyd

“…We describe the development and validation of a three-tiered diagnostic test of the water cycle (DTWC) and use it to evaluate the impact of prior learning…”
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How Do Undergraduate Students Conceptualize Acid-Base Chemistry? Measurement of a Concept Progression by Romine, William L, Todd, Amber N, Clark, Travis B

“…We developed and validated a new instrument, called Measuring Concept progressions in Acid-Base chemistry (MCAB) and used it to better understand the…”
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Learning Biology Through Innovative Curricula: A Comparison of Game- and Nongame-Based Approaches by Sadler, Troy D, Romine, William L, Menon, Deepika, Ferdig, Richard E, Annetta, Leonard

“…This study explored student learning in the context of innovative biotechnology curricula and the effects of gaming as a central element of the learning…”
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Interest and effort: exploring the relationship between students Covid-19 interest and information-seeking behavior by Kirk, Eric A., Romine, William. L., Sadler, Troy D., Elsner, Jamie N., Zangori, Laura A., Ke, Li

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A scoping review of wrist-worn wearables in education by Schroeder, Noah L., Romine, William L., Kemp, Sidney E.

“…Within the past ten years, the public's use of wearables, such as smartwatches and fitness trackers, has greatly increased. Recently, researchers have…”
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Modeling the Transition from a Phenotypic to Genotypic Conceptualization of Genetics in a University-Level Introductory Biology Context by Todd, Amber, Romine, William L., Correa-Menendez, Josefina

“…Identifying contingencies between constructs in a multi-faceted learning progression (LP) is a challenging task. Often, there is not enough evidence in the…”
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Game-Based Curricula in Biology Classes: Differential Effects Among Varying Academic Levels by Sadler, Troy D., Romine, William L., Stuart, Parker E., Merle-Johnson, Dominike

“…Video games have become a popular medium in our society, and recent scholarship suggests that games can support substantial learning. This study stems from a…”
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Thermal diffusivity of rhyolitic glasses and melts: effects of temperature, crystals and dissolved water by Romine, William L., Whittington, Alan G., Nabelek, Peter I., Hofmeister, Anne M.

“…Thermal diffusivity ( D ) was measured using laser-flash analysis on pristine and remelted obsidian samples from Mono Craters, California. These high-silica…”
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Teaching Osmosis to Biology Students by Odom, Arthur Louis, Barrow, Lloyd H., Romine, William L.

“…Osmosis is a fundamental concept of great importance to understanding natural biological, physical, and chemical processes. We provide an instructional guide…”
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