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Implementing Pedagogical Change in Introductory Biology Courses Through the Use of Faculty Learning Communities

This article discusses the implementation of student-centered learning in introductory biology classses that is being facilitated by the use of faculty learning communities....

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Scientists' and Teachers' Perspectives About Collaboration

The authors recently completed a six-year regional project that used several approaches to develop scientist-teacher relationships. At the conclusion 38 scientists and teachers were brought together to reflect on their experiences, which are describe...

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Transformative Research-Based Pedagogy Workshops for Chemistry Graduate Students and Postdocs

This article discusses one-day professional development workshops for graduate students and postdocs. The workshop introduced strong instructional approaches, established the importance of theory, and introduced novel pedagogic structures....

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Online Reading Informs Classroom Instruction and Promotes Collaborative Learning

This article describes an online annotation tool that was tested in two biology courses: intermediate-level Molecular Biology and upper level Cancer Biology....

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Reforming an Undergraduate Environmental Science Course for Nonscience Majors

This article discusses the key components of a reform-based introductory undergraduate environmental science course for nonscience majors and elementary teacher candidates as well as the impact of such components on the participants....

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Light, Brain, and Action: An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Course on Optogenetics for Undergraduate Students

This article discusses a semester-long interdisciplinary science course using recently developed optogenetic technique as a main context. This technique provides an engaging modern context for studying and connecting various fundamental concepts and ...

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Research and Teaching: Blooming, SOLO Taxonomy, and Phenomenography as Assessment Strategies in Undergraduate Science Education

This article discusses three alternative approaches to assessment of exam responses in an undergraduate biochemistry course....

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Research and Teaching: An Investigation of the Evolution of High School and Undergraduate Student Researchers' Understanding of Key Science Ethics Concepts

In this article high school and undergraduate research students were surveyed over a 10-week period of their summer research programs to investigate their understanding of key concepts in science ethics....

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Editorial: Rattled on the Reviewing Stand

The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Two-Year Community: Exploring Student Engagement in an Introductory Biology Course

For this article the authors explored the ideas of engagement and place at a midsize community college. We found that students have thoughtful opinions about each and are frustrated with some aspects of our current instruction. This article provides ...

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Case Study: Revising a Formal Case Study Presentation as an Independent Research Project

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the author discusses creating case study presentations and independent resear...