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Catalyzing the Advancement of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Chemical Education
Only a relatively small number of students from underrepresented groups enter the field of chemistry, complete their degrees, and enter the workforce. There are ethical and practical concerns when we lose out on diversifying the chemical sciences and...
By Reginald Rogers and Todd Pagano
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Teaching and Learning About Global Climate Change Online
Sessions of our laboratory-based physics course have been “meeting” synchronously online instead of on campus due to the pandemic. Shifting to remote instruction prompted us to create online versions of the course....
By Emily van Zee, Elizabeth Gire, Kelby T. Hahn, and Mackenzie Belden
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That’s How the Kangaroo Bounces
A growing number of Introductory Physics for Life Sciences courses have been developed to prepare biology, premedicine, and pre-health majors for cross-disciplinary connections between physical principles and biological systems. Many students find it...
By Erin M. Craig, Sydney Galbreath, Timothy Sorey, and Derek Ricketson
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A Course-Based Research and Teaching Experience for Science Majors and Preservice Educators
We designed a course to provide undergraduate science students and preservice teachers with authentic research and teaching experiences. Teams of students and preservice teachers complete supervised field ecology research projects and develop teachin...
By Timothy Stewart, Janette Thompson, Kristina Tank, Joanne Olson, Michael Rentz, and Peter Wolter
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A rudimentary level of scientific literacy is necessary in the general public. At the undergraduate level, this literacy can be achieved through general education courses offered in areas of natural sciences. Over the past several years, practical co...
By Mark Vincent dela Cerna
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Aligning Undergraduate Science Curricula With Three-Dimensional Learning
Recent science reform advocates for the inclusion of engineering design to teach science and represents a shift to so-called three-dimensional (3D) learning. This shift often requires science instructors to adapt their current curriculum to integrate...
By Jeffrey Radloff, Brenda Capobianco, Jessica Weller, Sanjay Rebello, David Eichinger, and Kendra Erk
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Active learning classrooms (ALCs) are designed to support collaborative learning in large class sections that are often taught with a lecture format. Studies on ALCs indicate that they have positive influences on student learning, but the same studie...
By Carolyn Hushman, Aurora Pun, and Sushilla Knottenbelt
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A Design Heuristic for Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Students reasoning with data in an authentic science environment had the opportunity to learn about the process of science and the world around them while developing skills to analyze and interpret self-collected and secondhand data. Our results show...
By Sandra Swenson, Yi He, Heather Boyd, and Kate Schowe Good
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There are more STEM jobs than there are qualified graduates to fill these positions, and recruiting students into STEM majors is insufficient. Of students who enter college intending to pursue STEM, nearly half do not finish their STEM degrees. In th...
By Krista L. Lucas and Alexis D. Spina
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Recent Developments in Classroom Observation Protocols for Undergraduate STEM
Over the past decade, researchers have developed several teaching observation protocols for use in higher education, such as the Teaching Dimensions Observation Protocol (TDOP), Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM (COPUS), Practical...
By Joan Esson, Paul Wendel, Anna Young, Meredith Frey, and Kathryn Plank
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We propose cross-disciplinary learning as a construct that can guide instruction and assessment in programs that feature sequential learning across multiple science disciplines. Cross-disciplinary learning combines insights from interdisciplinary lea...
By Emily Borda, Todd Haskell, and Andrew Boudreaux