All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Point of View: The Conversion of Charles

This essay tells the story of the path taken by a veteran physics teacher with a strongly traditional, didactic style of teaching to a more constructi...

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Innovative Assessment Tools for a Short, Fast-Paced, Summer Field Course

An experiential science program, such as a summer course at a field station, requires unique assessment tools. Traditional assessment via a pencil-and...

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Case Study: Ethanol or Biodiesel? A Systems-Analysis Decision

This case study stresses the need to broadly consider an entire system, including all of the energy inputs and outputs involved, to determine the real...

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Favorite Demonstration: A Simple Model of Hox Genes—Bone Morphology Demonstration

Visual demonstrations of abstract scientific concepts are effective strategies for enhancing content retention (Shmaefsky 2004). The concepts associat...

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Favorite Demonstration: Experiencing the Nature of Science—An Interactive, Beginning-of-Semester Activity

Students’ learning about the nature of science (NOS) consists of two related aspects that include their understandings of and ability to apply scien...

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Pedagogical Issues in Teaching Upper-Level Science Courses at a “Community University”

The authors teach upper-level science courses in cell biology, genetics, and biochemistry at a public, four-year “community university” that serve...