All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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The earlier and more often students are exposed to primary literature, the more comfortable they are going to be reading it. After a series of literature explorations that progressively introduced students to reading primary literature, students felt...

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Service Learning in Geography

Senior geography students in Field Methods in Geography apply their classroom knowledge to address an aspect of water quality degradation in a nearby river. Students submit proposals, carry out fieldwork, and write final project reports, learning fir...

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Successful Mentoring of Undergraduate Researchers

Prompted by the growing presence of undergraduates in research laboratories and the increased number of programs that encourage undergraduates to pursue research, the authors conducted a survey of undergraduate researchers at the University of Califo...

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Research and Teaching: Student Attitudes and Recommendations on Active Learning

A freshman student surveyed her peers seeking their opinions, attitudes, and recommendations regarding their experiences in a large, active-learning biology course. The results were mixed—disappointing in some respects but encouraging in others. Se...

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Customized Internet Assessments

Online assessments, one area of Internet technology that educators are still trying to develop, can involve complicated programming beyond the reach of many instructors. This article describes a program that enables instructors to create their own on...

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Teaching Effective Scientific Writing

In an extension of the preceding article, which describes a Towson University course that teaches students to analyze scientific information, this article summarizes the guidelines necessary for students to follow to improve their writing and offers ...

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Integrating Pharmacology into the Organic Chemistry Course

Many nonchemistry majors are unaware of the unity between chemistry and biology and tend to separate the two disciplines conceptually. In a course designed to emphasize health-related issues using a pharmacological approach, students gained a much be...

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Analyzing and Communicating Scientific Information

Using collaborative techniques, case studies, and extensive assessment, students in the Towson Transition Course at Towson University learned to access, evaluate, and communicate scientific information. A statistically significant increase in the ave...