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Research and Teaching: Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Attitudes toward Science and Technology

Interest in science and technology is essential to good citizenship. By adapting items from other scales and writing new items, the authors developed ...

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Point of View: Approaches to Undergraduate Research and Their Practical Impact on Faculty Productivity in the Natural Sciences

The many and diverse demands on faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) are such that any research endeavors undertaken must be efficie...

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Editorial: A Sporting Chance

In this month’s column, the author admits that she didn’t have a particularly positive image of student-athletes when she began teaching. She anti...

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Case Study: Learning About the Nature of Science With Case Studies

Case studies are an effective way to help students understand how science works, and perhaps even more importantly, how science knowledge is construct...

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Favorite Demonstration: Using Dice to Explore the Consequences of DNA Mutations

Working collaboratively, students explore the effect of different types of DNA mutations using dice. The exercise provides students with a tangible wa...

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Society for College Science Teachers: A Reader’s Response to SCST November/December 2008 and the Author’s Response

Thomas Lord in his column in the November/December issue of JCST claims that “The shift from academic merit to student consumerism is one of the two...

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Research and Teaching: Are In-Class Peer Leaders Effective in the Peer-Led Team-Learning Approach?

Peer-led team learning (PLTL) has been widely adopted for enhanced learning in a variety of disciplines, mostly in introductory chemistry, but also in...

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Developing and Implementing an Interdisciplinary Origins Course at a State University

A truly interdisciplinary course was successfully developed and taught that presented an overview of the historical sciences with an emphasis on the n...

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Society for College Science Teachers: “What? Professors Evaluating Themselves? Are You Out of Your Mind?” In Defense of Faculty Self-Evaluation

Self-assessment is a win-win evaluation system. Evaluees, not the department or university, control the process by selecting the evaluation criteria. ...