All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Point of View: What Makes it Science? A Modern Look

Scientific inquiry differs from other human inquiry in the kind of evidence scientists pay attention to. Scientific evidence was born, historically of human curiosity and its search for practical explanations of observed phenomena on which everyone ...

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Field Botany and Creative Writing: Where the Science of Writing Meets the Writing of Science

Merging science and writing to enhance both subjects was the objective of a venture known as Plant Notes. At first, teacher-written notes served as the inspiration for this writing assignment. Later, eclectic student-written novellas, poems, song l...

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Phylogenetic Reconstruction as a Broadly Applicable Teaching Tool in the Biology Classroom: The Value of Data in Estimating Likley Answers

This laboratory exercise introduces students to a fundamental tool in evolutionary biology--phylogenetic inference. Students are required to create a data set via observation and through mining preexisting data sets. These student data sets are the...

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Undergraduate Research Communities: A Powerful Approach to Research Training

We applied the concept of learning communities, whereby students develop their ideas in cohort-based settings, to undergraduate research training. This creates powerful research communities where students practice science from observation to experim...

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Editorial: A Change in Terrain or a Shift in Perspective?

Guess what? While you weren't looking, the world got flattened. At least, that's the conclusion of Thomas L. Friedman in his explosive book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Friedman asserts that a recent confluence o...

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Research and Teaching: Active Learning Is Not Enough

In this article, the author examines the frequency of assessment and how it impacts learning in an undergraduate biology course employing a student-centered, active learning pedagogy. Frequent assessment was associated with better student performanc...

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Turning the Potential Liability of Large Enrollment Laboratory Science Courses Into an Asset

Data sharing among multiple lab sections increases statistical power of data analyses and informs student-generated hypotheses. This article describes how to collect, organize, and manage data to support replicate and rolling inquiry models, with th...