Research and Teaching: Using a Practical Instructional Development Process to Show That Integrating Lab and Active Learning Benefits Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry

Journal Article | December 2016

The authors describe how a practical instructional development process helped a first-year assistant professor rapidly develop, implement, and assess the impact on her Analytical Chemistry course caused by three changes…

The Case Study: A Few Steps Ahead on the Same Path: Using Peer Tutors in the Cooperative-Learning Classroom—A Multilayered Approach to Teaching

Journal Article | February 1999

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 explains how using upper-class undergraduates as…

Two-Year Community: Human Anatomy Software Use in Traditional and Online Anatomy Laboratory Classes: Student-Perceived Learning Benefits

Journal Article | April 2014

This study evaluates the effectiveness of human anatomy software in face-to-face and online anatomy laboratory classes.

What College Science Faculty Can Learn About Change: The K-16 Continuum—Viewing School Teachers as Partners in Change

Journal Article | October 1999

K–12 teachers, who sometimes know more about teaching and learning than college professors, can be a great source of information about effective teaching strategies. This paper presents a synopsis of typical K–12…

Promoting Science Literacy Through Research Service-Learning—An Emerging Pedagogy With Significant Benefits for Students, Faculty, Universities, and Communities

Journal Article | June 2010

Research service-learning (RSL) is an emerging pedagogy in which students engage in research within a service-learning context. This approach has great potential to promote science literacy because it teaches students…

Student-Designed Experiments in Scientific Lab Instruction: Students at the University of Puerto Rico Go back to the Basics to Learn Chemistry Concepts

Journal Article | October 1997

Student-designed experiments emphasize depth of understanding. Revisiting "known" concepts like heat, temperature, uncertainty in measurements, mass, and volume, helps students deepen their understanding. Having to…