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Journal Article

Clickers Are Not Enough: Results of a Decade-Long Study Investigating Instructional Strategies in Chemistry

Studies on the effectiveness of clickers in undergraduate chemistry courses are mixed, and there is disagreement on how to effectively leverage clickers to improve student learning performance. To fill a gap in the research, we analyzed three diffe...

By David J. Weiss, Patrick McGuire, Wendi Clouse, and Raphael Sandoval

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Journal Article

Student-Constructed Weather Instruments Facilitate Scientific Inquiry

Students in introductory college science courses often have a simplified understanding of the scientific method. To introduce students to the complexity of the scientific process and the value of empirical observations, I implemented a semesterlong...

By Cindy Shellito

Postsecondary

Journal Article

A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood

First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that they may not have been exposed to in high school. In this article, we outline the successes and challen...

By Adele J. Wolfson and Justin Armstrong

Postsecondary

Journal Article

A Learning Tool for Chemistry and Health Professions Students: Mnemonics for Writing Net Ionic Equations

Chemical mnemonic devices have been designed to aid students in understanding chemical concepts in previous years. This has been done for concepts such as oxyanions, ozonolysis, tautomerization mechanisms in organic chemistry, and writing reactions o...

By Angela L. Mahaffey

Postsecondary Chemistry Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Confusing Science Vocabulary: When Negative Is Positive!

By Mark Milanick

Postsecondary

Journal Article

Evaluating Information: The Impact of Major, Class Standing, and Experience With Primary Literature

Social media platforms and other internet sites may propagate inaccurate or misleading information. This misinformation encourages speculation, rumors, and mistrust in established science. In the current study, we attempted to determine whether bio...

By Shawn Stover and Michelle Mabry

Postsecondary

NSTA Press Book

Making Sense of Science and Religion: Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond

The authors of Making Sense of Science and Religion believe that addressing interactions between science and religion is part of all science educators’ collective job—and that this is the book that will help you facilitate discussion when the top...

By Joseph W. Shane, Lee Meadows, Ronald S. Hermann, Ian C. Binns

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NSTA Press Book

Preparing Teachers for Three-Dimensional Instruction

It’s not enough for teachers to read through the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and correlate their content to the established curriculum. Teachers must prepare to make the vision of the NGSS come alive in their classrooms. Editor Jack Rh...

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