Description
Are you still using 20th century techniques to teach science to 21st century students? Update your practices as you learn about current theory and research with the authoritative new Handbook of College Science Teaching. The Handbook offers models of teaching and learning that go beyond the typical lecture-laboratory format and provides rationales for new practices in the college classroom. The 38 chapters—each written by experienced, award-winning science faculty—are organized into eight sections:
• Attitudes and motivations (including research on science anxiety)
• Active learning
• Factors affecting learning
• Innovative teaching approaches (such as the use of primary literature, fieldwork, and inquiry labs)
• Use of technology for both teaching and student research
• Special challenges, such as teaching effectively to culturally diverse or learning disabled students
• Pre-college science instruction
• Improving instruction
No other book fills the Handbook’s unique niche as a definitive guide for science professors in all content areas. It even includes special help for those who teach non-science majors at the freshman and sophomore levels. The Handbook is ideal for graduate teaching assistants in need of a solid introduction, senior faculty and graduate coordinators in charge of training new faculty and grad students, and mid-career professors in search of reinvigoration.
Contents
Unit I – Attitudes and Motivation
Chapter 1
Science Anxiety: Research and Action
Chapter 2
Improving Student Attitudes Toward Biology
Chapter 3
Motivation to Learn in College Science
Unit II – Active Learning
Chapter 4
Experiential Learning in a Large Introductory Biology Course
Chapter 5
Strategies for Interactive Engagement in Large Lecture Science Survey Classes
Chapter 6
Undergraduate Research in Science: Not Just for Scientists Anymore
Chapter 7
Concept Mapping in College Science
Chapter 8
Peer Instruction: Making Science Engaging
Chapter 9
Open Laboratories in College Science
Chapter 10
New Physics Teaching and Assessment:
Laboratory- and Technology-Enhanced Active Learning
Unit III – Factors Affecting Learning
Chapter 11
Developing Scientific Reasoning Patterns in College Biology
Chapter 12
Learning Science and the Science of Learning
Chapter 13
The Impact of a Conceptually Sequenced Genetics Unit
Chapter 14
Do Introductory Science Courses Select for Effort or Aptitude?
Chapter 15
Active Learning in the College Science Classroom
Unit IV – Innovative Teaching Approaches
Chapter 16
Incorporating Primary Literature Into Science Learning
Chapter 17
Fieldwork: New Directions and Exemplars in
Chapter 18
Using Case Studies to Teach Science
Chapter 19
Mating Darwin with Dickinson: How Writing Creative Poetry in Biology
Chapter 20
Constructive-Developmental Pedagogy in Chemistry
Chapter 21
Converting Your Lab from Verification to Inquiry
Unit V – Use of Technology
Chapter 22
Technology-Enriched Learning Environments in University Chemistry
Chapter 23
Animating Your Lecture
Chapter 24
Instructional Technology: A Review of Research and Recommendations for Use
Chapter 25
Web-Based Practice and Assessment Systems in Science
Chapter 26
Teaching Students to Evaluate the Accuracy of Science Information
Unit VI – Meeting Special Challenges
Chapter 27
Science, Technology, and the Learning Disabled: A Review of the Literature
Chapter 28
Diversity in the Physical Science Curriculum: The Intellectual Challenge
Chapter 29
Incorporating Cultural Diversity Into College Science
Chapter 30
Alternative Conceptions: New Directions and Exemplars in College Science Education Research
Chapter 31
Applying Conceptual Change Strategies to College Science Teaching
Unit VII – Pre-College Science Instruction
Chapter 32
Ensuring That College Graduates Are Science Literate: Implications of K-12 Benchmarks and Standards
Chapter 33
The High-School-to-College Transition in Science
Chapter 34
Factors Influencing Success in Introductory College Science
Unit VIII – Improving Instruction
Chapter 35
Assessment Practices in College Science: Trends From the
Chapter 36
Making Choices About Teaching and Learning in Science
Chapter 37
Science and Civic Engagement: Changing Perspectives
Chapter 38
Using Research on Teaching to Improve Student Learning
Final Thoughts
Index