This article investigates the mechanisms through which undergraduate research experiences for community college students can have second-order and multiplier effects on other students and home community college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments and thus build STEM pipeline capacity.
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This article describes a journal club mini-workshop in which students learn a systematic method for reading primary literature. Students who have been taught this method are better able to interpret, critique, and present primary articles in a journal club and express increased confidence in their abilities to understand primary literature across the curriculum.
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Students use freeware to make a short video with text, images, and music as a way to explain scientific concepts that are traditionally difficult for students to apply. The data from this study underscore the impact social media has on student engagement and learning of scientific concepts. This article describes the approach of the study, the impact on student learning, and its applicability for teaching a variety of scientific concepts.
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This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the case study article explains that humans either have wet or dry earwax and highlights that the gene that determines the type an individual has been recently identified.
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This article describes an e-mail–based formative assessment program, which was established to encourage students to revisit first-year general chemistry material regularly in a low-risk and supportive environment.
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The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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This study assesses students' conceptual understanding and interest during the electrochemistry unit of a physics course for nonphysics majors that was revised in light of consistently low ratings from its students. The intervention, designed to improve the tutorials in a large lecture-based physics course, improved interest in the topic for which the new tutorials were implemented.
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses educating teachers about problem solving.
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This article discusses the effect of a new graduate teaching assistant training program on the TA's ability to lead student-centered recitations and on their professional development.
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This article describes a small-scale study to investigate if a brief timely intervention focusing on specific study strategies would improve student performance in university science courses.
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