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SCST: Distance Learning—Meeting Our Educational Responsibilities with Technology
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In this column the leadership of the Society for College Science Teaching (SCST) shares its views with JCST readers. This month’s issue focuses on the concerns of meeting our educational responsibilities with technology.
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Switch on Student Interest: Learning to derive the equation for resistors in parallel
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In this lab activity, traditional parallel circuit problems were used to evaluate students' understanding of the relationship that exists among resistors in parallel. But the students now "owned" the equation that they…
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Use of Genomic Databases for Inquiry-Based Learning About Influenza
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The genome projects of the past decades have created extensive databases of biological information with applications in both research and education. We describe an inquiry-based exercise that uses one such database,…
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Enhancing the Instructional Environment: Optimal Learning in Introductory Science Classes
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A survey of 55 colleges showed that the learning environments in introductory science courses are not always as supportive as they should be. Furthermore, most innovative teaching techniques, as recommended by the…
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The Energy Retrofit of a Building: A Journey Through Bloom’s Learning Domains
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At Colorado College, the energy retrofit of a building is used as a service-learning research project to teach physics and chemistry in a variety of courses. In introductory courses for nonscience majors, the project…
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Hierarchical Learning Ensembles: Team Building for Undergraduate Scientists and Engineers
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This article describes the design and implementation of the Hierarchical Learning Ensemble (HLE) model, a pedagogy that assembles interdisciplinary teams of graduate, undergraduate, and secondary-level students to solve…
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