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Teacher to Teacher: Transitioning to Three-Dimensional Learning With Evidence Statements
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This column provides practical advice from your peers. Incorporating three-dimensional learning in the classroom requires teachers to change how they present lessons and assessments to students. This article shows…
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Scope on the Skies: Vocabulary of the Skies
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month's issue provides a list of astronomical terms that students can apply to events that they can witness this summer.
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The authors reorganized sections of their nonmajors biology course using current issues in biology and society as a premise to promote coherence among course content and emphasize the relevance of biological concepts to…
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The Windwalker Project: An Open-Ended Approach
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Students in a beginning level undergraduate classical mechanics course engaged in collaborative inquiry through the Windwalker Project. The aim of this project was for students to create a free-standing movable…
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It is envisaged that small-group exercises as part of a large-group session would facilitate not only group work exercises (a valuable employability skill), but also peer learning. In this article, such a strategy to…
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Geoscience Videos and Their Role in Supporting Student Learning
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A series of short (5 to 7 minutes long) geoscience videos were created to support student learning in a flipped class setting for an introductory geology class at North Carolina State University. This study sought to…
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The authors created a Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) program focused on improving student performance in high-risk STEM courses. Our PALs are modeled after the Peer-Led Team Learning program, which has been shown to…
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To engage effectively with contemporary water-related challenges with scientific and social dimensions, students need to understand the properties of water and the nature of scientific processes and practices. However,…
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The authors compare student learning and perception data from astronomy, physics, and geology courses taught in a traditional classroom with individual desks to the same classes taught in a large auditorium.
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Collaborative activities in the area of science need to incorporate the co-critiquing of a flawed external source, with appropriate scaffolding to also benefit students with low self-regulation levels by mediating…
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Research and Teaching: A Comparison of Long-Term Knowledge Retention Between Two Teaching Approaches
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The purpose of the research in this article was to test assumptions regarding the effectiveness of reform-based instructional approaches to facilitating knowledge retention in students. We conducted an experimental…
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses the importance of identifiying first-generation college students and helping them become…
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Few students enter community college science classrooms having experience with, or being proficient in, using evidence to explain scientific phenomena. Therefore, the authors used a claim-evidence-reasoning framework to…
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Case Study: Mini-Case Studies: Small Infusions of Active Learning for Large-Lecture Courses
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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. This month’s issue discusses how the author uses case studies as a…
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Professional Development in Real Time
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Teachers learn from a live lesson on binary code.
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