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Show Your Students How to Be More Persuasive When They Write
After a grueling grading campaign, a chemist asked a writing and rhetoric specialist for help improving formal reports in the introductory organic chemistry lab. Together, we realized that the very best student reports employ many persuasive moves ...
By David J. Slade and Susan K. Hess
Journal Article
Backward Redesign of a Nonmajors’ Biology Course at a Two-Year Technical College
Gwinnett Technical College (GTC), established in 1984, is the second-largest technical college in Georgia. As a two-year open-access college, GTC and other technical and community colleges are significant in educating STEM and non-STEM majors in th...
By Margaret Long, Adrienne Cottrell-Yongye, and Tyler Huynh
Web Seminar
Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: Distance-Learning Strategies, August 25, 2020
How can we create equitable, distance-learning sensemaking (actively trying to figure out how the world works or designing solutions to problems) experiences for our students when it comes to asking them to use materials from around their homes to do...
Journal Article
While research has demonstrated the links between active learning and student success, lecture remains a dominant instructional method within introductory STEM courses. In this project, we used the strategy of enlisting peer mentors to develop and ...
By Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Jaemarie Solyst, Anisha Pai, and Lu Yu
Journal Article
K–12 DREAMS to Teach Program at Morehouse College
This study explores the pathways to K–12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics instruction among Black/African American males in the Discovery Research Education for African American Men in STEM to Teach (DREAMS to Teach) program at Mo...
By Cynthia Trawick, Thema Monroe-White, Jigsa A. Tola, Jamie P. Clayton, and J. K. Haynes
Journal Article
Teaching K–8 Teachers About Integrating Science and Engineering
We examined the use of an engineering learning cycle (ELC) model and in a course for K–8 inservice teachers for two purposes. First, we were interested in how the ELC would support teachers’ science, mathematics, and engineering content knowled...
By Allison Antink-Meyer and Anna Arias
Journal Article
Geoscience Education and Motivated Reasoning
Individuals use information selectively, in ways that support group beliefs or one’s psychological needs—this is motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning is revealed in correlations between (1) opinions/knowledge and (2) individu...
By Emily Fisher and Nan Crystal Arens
Journal Article
Designing Environmental Science Curriculum With PhotoVoice to Engage Nonscience Majors
By Carolyn Waters and Kristin Cook
Journal Article
A Framework for Effective Dissemination of Innovative STEM Curricula
By S. Elizabeth Alter and Leo Gafney
Journal Article
Community College Students Rise to the Challenge
High-structure course designs have reduced achievement gaps for low-income and underrepresented minority students at research universities. But do community college students have time to do the preclass preparation required for intensive active lea...
By Scott Freeman, Pamela Pape-Lindstrom, Anne Casper, and Sarah Eddy
Web Seminar
As new information comes out from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and researchers, educators, and parents are left with questions about the progression of the COVID-19, possible treatments and vaccines, and what the models tell us of what we can...