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Science for All: Empowering Students Through Collaboration
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This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This month's column provides strategies for grouping students to increase their productivity, accountability, engagement, and performance levels, while…
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Safer Science: STEM Safety: A Collaborative Effort
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses how to be safe when planning integrated STEM programs.
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Student-to-Student Collaboration and Coming to Consensus
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Promote a dialogue among students that helps develop the art of consensus-building.
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Examinations That Support Collaborative Learning: The Students' Perspective
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The authors used surveys and classroom observations to examine student reactions to two-stage exams, where students first do the exam individually and then redo it collaboratively.
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Art Instruction in the Botany Lab: A Collaborative Approach
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Good observations are often fundamental to good science, and drawing has long been recognized as a tool to develop students’ observation skills. Yet when drawing in illustrated journals was introduced into botany…
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A Collaborative Approach to Incorporating Statistics in the Physiology Classroom
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Both the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) recommend appropriately incorporating mathematics into other disciplines (NRC 1996; NRC 2003; NCTM 2000).…
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Increasing STEM Outcomes Through Quality Collaborations
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Discover how early childhood faculty at the University of Memphis launched a new collaborative partnership with the Children’s Museum of Memphis to develop and implement early STEM learning activities during a teaching…
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Exploring maker spaces, engineering, and more
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The purpose of this study was to determine (a) if two-stage testing improves performance on both multiple-choice and long-answer questions, (b) if two-stage testing improves short- and long-term knowledge retention, and…