Assessment: Can It Lead to a Better Course Design?

Journal Article | August 2013

Biology faculty at one college took the initiative to develop its own assessment tool for an introductory biology course. The goal was to evaluate student achievement in the course and detect methods for improving the…

Engineering Design and EFFECTs: A Water Filtration Example

Journal Article | October 2014

Teach students the language of engineering while addressing a real-world problem.

Designing Teaching Facilities: Pedagogy as the Driving Force

Journal Article | June 2005

Pedagogy, the art and science of teaching, should be the driving force behind the design of any teaching facility. What is taught and how it is taught should determine the size, type, and configuration of educational…

Bands to Books: Connecting Literature to Experimental Design

Journal Article | October 2004

This interdisciplinary unit of study on the inquiry process and experimental design that seamlessly integrates math, science, and reading using a rubber band cannon. The authors begin by describing a series of…

Designing Appropriate Scaffolding for Student Science Projects

Journal Article | November 2008

The authors have developed a successful approach to teaching and inspiring undergraduate science and nonscience majors to complete creditable, semester-long, hands-on science research projects. This approach utilizes a…

Bread Making: Classic Biotechnology and Experimental Design

Journal Article | December 2002

Bread making activities can help students meet local and national standards for scientific inquiry, experimental design, and problem solving. In the first activity, students make and observe yeast solutions. Then they…

Idea Bank: School Greenhouse Design Tips

Journal Article | October 2006

Growing plants in a controlled environment such as a greenhouse can be a wonderful enhancement to any science program. Thoughtful planning, proper design, and faculty advocates who support the greenhouse as an important…

Science for All: Making it work: Incorporating design thinking into all areas of instruction to fit the needs of unique learners

Journal Article | August 2019

Strategies for increasing student engagement

Paper Towers: Building students' understandings of technological design

Journal Article | October 2006

“What do you think the National Science Education Standards are referring to when they talk about science and technology?" The authors posed this question to a group of undergraduate education majors during a science…