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Adapting a Student-Centered Chemistry Curriculum to a Large-Enrollment Context: Successes and Challenges

Student-centered forms of instruction based in a constructivist framework, where students are guided toward actively constructing their understanding, have been met with success. However, implementation of constructivist-based curricula and complemen...

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Student-Designed Experiments: A Pedagogical Design for Introductory Science Labs

Despite numerous calls for science education to be driven by authentic investigation, many laboratory experiences continue to consist of disconnected weekly units during which students carry out instructions that lead to some predetermined finding. T...

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Group Active Engagement Exercises: Pursuing the Recommendations of Vision and Change in an Introductory Undergraduate Science Course

Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education: A Call to Action, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011, suggested cultivating biological literacy and practicing more student-centered learning in undergraduate lif...

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A Crash Course in Undergraduate Research

Studies have shown that engaging students in undergraduate research and improving students’ science identities will increase minority students’ chances of completing their degrees and pursuing graduate studies. This article describes a beginner-l...

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Increasing Student Interactions With Learning

The authors discuss the use of specific teaching strategies to increase student interactions with student learning objectives....

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Research and Teaching: Connecting Science Content and Science Methods for Preservice Elementary School Teachers

The integration of an undergraduate science content course and science methods course into a single combined course for preservice teachers, including a precourse field experience, was undertaken at a small, liberal arts college. The conceptual frame...

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Research and Teaching: Correcting Missed Exam Questions as a Learning Tool in a Physiology Course

Students in a junior- and senior-level Anatomy and Physiology course have the opportunity to correct missed exam questions (“regrade”) and earn up to half of the original points missed. The three objectives of this study were to determine if (a)...

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Research and Teaching: The Pairing of a Science Communications and a Language Course to Enrich First-Year English Language Learners’ Writing and Argumentation Skills

This article explores how English language learners’ writing evolved during a first-year seminar in science course aimed at developing students’ argumentation skills. We highlight how a science communications course was paired with a weekly acade...

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Research and Teaching: Teaching Assistant and Faculty Perceptions of Ongoing, Personalized TA Professional Development: Initial Lessons and Plans for the Future

The authors investigated stakeholders’ perceptions of a novel GTA PD program implemented in The Ohio State University (OSU) Center for Life Sciences Education (CLSE), which coordinates biology courses at an R1 institution. GTAs involved in the prog...

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Point of View: Academic Librarians as STEM Retention Partners

When you think of collaborating with campus partners on activities to increase the retention of students in science majors, who comes to mind? Other academic departments, the IT department, science and math tutoring—but do you think of science libr...

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Case Study: Guidelines for Producing Videos to Accompany Flipped Cases

Three years ago, the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS) was inspired to merge the case study and flipped classroom approaches. The resulting project aimed to create the materials required to teach a flipped course in introdu...

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