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Changing the Teaching Culture in Introductory STEM Courses at a Large Research University
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The authors describe a major transformation in teaching large introductory courses in the sciences and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, impacting over 17,000 students yearly. The…
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this issue the authors describe how they discovered that by incorporating culturally relevant analogies and examples…
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Case Study: Hands-On Mini-Case Studies Promote Integration of Microbiological Concepts
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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 article, the authors present a series of 10 mini-case studies…
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Graduate teaching assistants play an important role in undergraduate programs in the authors' Earth Science Department. A course on teaching and learning was developed to train graduate students in student-centered…
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The Five Minute Teach (5MT) serves as both a training tool for graduate teaching assistants (TAs) and a format for explicit discipline-based writing instruction. Here the authors describe the development and execution…
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Research and Teaching: Enriching Undergraduate Experiences With Outreach in School STEM Clubs
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The STEM Club Leadership for Undergraduate STEM Education, Recruiting and Success project at a large public research university in the Mountain West presents an outreach model to engage undergraduate STEM majors in…
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Research and Teaching: Observable Features of Active Science Education Practices
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Although research findings support elevated learning outcomes for students who engage in active science learning, faculty members are still resistant to using these practices. In this article the authors describe the…
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Learning From Failed Experiments
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The messy aspects of doing science
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Data-Driven Inquiry in the PBL Classroom
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Linking maps, graphs, and tables in biology
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Learning tertiary folding through problem solving
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Using socio-scientific issues to foster critical thinking
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Could Your Food Be Contaminated?
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Mycotoxins in feed and food products
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