All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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The 50-year-old book, The Art of Readable Writing, by Linguist Rudolf Flesch, is chock-full of great advice about writing. Here the author shares some of its wisdom because it is useful for any kind of writing, including case studies. Consider this c...

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The Mock Experiment

A full understanding of the mechanisms behind and the importance of scientific research is invaluable to all college students. The Mock Experiment can be used to introduce science and nonscience majors to the scientific process, presentation of resea...

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FORUM for Case Study Learning

Journal articles are the fundamental building blocks of the edifice of science. Students learn the necessary skills and confidence to read primary research literature by working in groups in a computer conference. This model for analyzing research pa...

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"Stream"-lined Education

Using three active-learning strategies (i.e., teaming, opening, and linking), students perform a series of molecular biology experiments (i.e., transformation, miniprep, and electrophoresis) to identify unknown plasmid DNA. The presented model combin...

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Research and Teaching: Persisting Misconceptions

A content-based test instrument administered to a large class of general biology students as pre- and post-tests revealed that knowledge was gained after the semester. A misconception index calculated from these data served to identify specific misco...

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Problem Solving in the Chemistry Laboratory

In a pilot project implemented at the University of Kansas, a team of instructors from the education and chemistry departments modified the introductory chemistry laboratory curriculum to center on problem-based inquiry learning units. The new labora...

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Research and Teaching: Factors Affecting Participation in Traditional and Inquiry-Based Laboratories

The authors studied participation, achievement, and attitude in cookbook and inquiry-based, introductory biology laboratories through observations, interviews, and attitude/knowledge surveys. A positive relationship, stronger in inquiry-based than co...

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Recrafting the General Chemistry Laboratory Report

Shifting students’ attitudes from a procedural approach in writing laboratory reports to a more engaged learning experience is difficult. This paper describes how to adopt a Science Writing Heuristic in an introductory college chemistry laboratory ...