Framing of failure as constructive can help students to engage in authentic practices of iterative design and to leverage failure in future experiences.
The Embedded Phenomena framework may offer unique benefits for engaging students in authentic practices, improving learning outcomes, and making science learning accessible to students with a wide variety of skill sets.
Windschitl and colleagues contend that "model-based inquiry" is superior to the traditional scientific method, because it allows students to engage in an authentic practice of scientists, which is the "development of coherent and comprehensive explanations through the testing of models" (p. 5).
This analytic stance is particularly appropriate for informal educational robotics, where team mentors are often industry professionals, and participation in the team entails scaffolded engagement in the authentic practices of a profession, similar to traditional apprenticeship.
The church and the state should be more autonomous in order to facilitate the authentic practice of the faith.
Our goal is to engage learners in authentic science practice by giving them the tools and the ability to pose, investigate, and answer their own questions.
These activities were designed to support the acquisition of knowledge about earthquake measurement and skills in authentic seismological practice, including the determination of event distance and magnitude, and the use of trilateration to determine event epicenters.
While both the modeling theory of science and the modeling theory of instruction may together establish a classroom that engages students in authentic scientific practice, we believe that it is also important to structure the discourse to support the development of models and the process of modeling.
An authentic practice video and associated interactive workshop was developed to bring the 'woman' into the classroom and to provide role-modelling of exemplary midwifery practice in screening for and responding to disclosure of domestic violence.
Thus, modeling is a beneficial practice for students, because it is an authentic practice of biology.
