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Point of View: Death by PowerPoint?

Presentation software is here to stay and, rather than avoid it, the authors recommend its judicious use, particularly for what it does best—provide a simple platform for projecting a rich assortment of images. Although the authors do not consider ...

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Inquiry and Connections in Integrated Science Content Courses for Elementary Education Majors

An interdisciplinary team of science and education faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago and several Chicago-area community colleges developed and implemented a series of four integrated, inquiry-based science courses for preservice elemen...

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The Energy Retrofit of a Building: A Journey Through Bloom’s Learning Domains

At Colorado College, the energy retrofit of a building is used as a service-learning research project to teach physics and chemistry in a variety of courses. In introductory courses for nonscience majors, the project helps students appreciate the sc...

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Development of a Laboratory Course in Nonmajors General Biology for Distance Education

For distance-education students, the requirement for a laboratory course can present a significant hurdle to completing degree requirements. To better serve these nontraditional students, the authors developed a distance version of the laboratory cou...

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Scaling Up Education Reform

The SCALE-UP (Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment for Undergraduate Programs) project was developed to implement reforms designed for small classes into large physics classes. Over 50 schools across the country, ranging from Wake Technic...

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Society for College Science Teachers: Trimorphic College Science Professors

In the author’s opinion, there are three significantly different types of science professors. There are professor-instructors, professor-teachers, and professor-researchers. Although the professional practices in each category are very different, i...

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A Collaborative Approach to Incorporating Statistics in the Physiology Classroom

Both the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) recommend appropriately incorporating mathematics into other disciplines (NRC 1996; NRC 2003; NCTM 2000). With this in mind, an interdisci...

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Research and Teaching: Promoting Rapid Learning in the Histology Laboratory by Integrating Technology

This paper describes the results of incorporating technology in the histology laboratory by using high-resolution video-imaging equipment (VIE). The study sought to determine if (1) the VIE would allow students to more easily and rapidly find histolo...

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Case Study: Sex and Vaccination

This case study is centered upon the recent debate concerning the decision by Texas Governor Rick Perry to mandate the compulsory vaccination of girls in the Texas public school system against the human papillomavirus (HPV) prior to entering the sixt...

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Editorial: Research and Teaching Column

The JCST Research and Teaching column will feature sound research on curriculum, pedagogy, and student learning at the college level. Topics of interest include all fields of science: chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, physics, geography, mathe...