Volume 2, Edition 21 – Using Scientists’ Stories to Build Interest

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for building motivation in science.

It can sometimes be difficult to build students’ deep appreciation for science beyond their interest in flashy experiments. In an article for the Journal of Educational Psychology, a professor at Columbia University and a professor in Taiwan discuss a strategy that uses stories about scientists to build students’ interest and understanding.

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