Guided Research in Science

Catalog description

Working closely with both a science education and faculty member in physics, chemistry, or biology (depending on licensure field), science education candidates engage in a guided research project. Candidates learn and use the most recent skills and tools of research in their certification area and demonstrate their ability to understand research and successfully design, conduct, report, and evaluate investigations in science. As part of their course requirements, candidates synthesize their research in the form of a scientific paper and develop a unit of instruction that integrates findings from their research and engages 7-12 students in the processes of research in the field.