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Too Long to Read: Assessing the Motivation Behind Graduate Student Attendance in Reading Groups
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Graduate-level reading groups serve as a primary forum for students to learn current and complex concepts in their field. Because graduate students lament that reading "abnormally long" articles discourage them from…
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Eliminating the Textbook: Learning Science With Cell Phones
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This article describes a study that compares student learning in an ecology course between a semester in which cell phones were used to access information.
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The authors describe four instructional modules with the goals of increasing student confidence, appreciation, and performance in both experimental design and data analysis.
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Research and Teaching: Midterm and First-Exam Grades Predict Final Grades in Biology Courses
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This article describes a study in which the authors analyzed the extent to which two standard forms of feedback, midterm and first-exam grades, correlated with final grades in several biology courses.
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This article describes a a comparison of student performance in a series of two introductory biology classes and one third-year class shows that students with graduate teaching assistant and undergraduate teaching…
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Idea Bank: Start the Year Off Green!
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With summer upon us, now is a good time to think about incorporating green practices in the year ahead. This Idea Bank presents a few tips to help decrease your classroom waste, increase recycling, and make students…
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Science Sampler: Nanoscale in perspective
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Nanoscale science is a growing field, and to appreciate the work of scientists in this field, it is important for students to understand the scale of work being done. This activity, designed to bring nanoscale into the…
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The misconceptions that students bring with them, or that arise during instruction, are a critical barrier to learning. Implicit-confidence tests, a simple modification of the multiple-choice test, can be used as a…
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Soil is all around us, in fact there is so much of it that we often don’t think of it as a valuable natural resource, and we might even take it for granted! We rely on its productivity for our food and fiber and its…
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This article contains the answers to these questions. Why does Venus rotate 'backwards' and slowly? How does the Coriolis effect explain toilets flushing in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere?
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Tried and True: Springing Into Linear Models
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This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue presents an activity that links forces and linear relationships by having students measure the distance a spring stretches…
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A Community Controls Loosestrife: It takes a village to keep nonnative plant populatins in check
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Purple loosestrife is a gorgeous, flowering, invasive, European plant. Environmental science students from Walled Lake Central High School in Michigan entered into an exciting partnership with the citizens of the…
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Commentary: The Courage of His Convictions
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An opinion piece about the 75th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial."
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Attitudes toward science may develop as early as middle school and often differ between genders. Do these gender-based differences in attitude persist into the college years? In a survey of 376 university students, male…
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Science Sampler: Word wall connections
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A word wall has many uses in the middle school science classroom. It is ideal for reinforcing vocabulary and connections between concepts. In this article, the author describes an interactive way to use the word wall to…
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