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Point of View: Smooth Handoff—Alignment of Secondary and Collegiate Learner Goals in Science
A winning science education relay is tough to pull off if high school and college instructors misunderstand each other. Difficulties in learner transition to college science appear to have roots in miscommunication: what high school teachers think co...
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A Simple Exercise Reveals the Way Students Think About Scientific Modeling
Scientific modeling is an integral part of contemporary science, yet many students have little understanding of how models are developed, validated, and used to predict and explain phenomena. A simple modeling exercise led to significant gains in und...
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Enabling a Culture of Change: A Life Science Faculty Learning Community Promotes Scientific Teaching
Significant challenges to education transformation in lecture-oriented science departments include initiating and supporting a dialogue about teaching and learning among faculty whose priorities are primarily research. The authors established a facul...
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Favorite Demonstration: Biological Membranes
This demonstration provides an excellent example of how eukaryotic cells are compartmentalized and how important the bilipid layer of the endomembrane system is in providing this sectioned architecture. This demonstration also effectively depicts how...
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Case Study: Uretero What? Gynecological Health Issues, Pregnancy, and an Infant With a Birth Defect
This case study follows the life of a successful career woman who is faced with a series of medical problems and career decisions. The purpose of this case study is for students to apply systems-level physiology as they explore a pregnancy with medic...
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This paper describes a one-and-a-half day Distinguished Scholar Symposium during which undergraduate underrepresented minorities (URMs) from nearby schools visit the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to learn about advanced degree ...
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Most undergraduate science students will likely not become science professors, much less people of science (Fox 1998; Tobias 1992). However, some may become K—12 science teachers. Are we, as science professors, providing lessons for them toward the...
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Designing Appropriate Scaffolding for Student Science Projects
The authors have developed a successful approach to teaching and inspiring undergraduate science and nonscience majors to complete creditable, semester-long, hands-on science research projects. This approach utilizes a carefully developed scaffolding...
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This article presents a framework for a geomicrobiology course design that has produced impressive gains in students’ contextual knowledge (e.g., Felder and Brent 2004a). The approach centers on the design and execution of a research experiment for...