Research and Teaching: The Pairing of a Science Communications and a Language Course to Enrich First-Year English Language Learners’ Writing and Argumentation Skills

Journal Article | April 2017

This article explores how English language learners’ writing evolved during a first-year seminar in science course aimed at developing students’ argumentation skills. We highlight how a science communications course was…

Research and Teaching: Online Collaborative Misconception Mapping Strategy Enhanced Health Science Students’ Discussion and Knowledge of Basic Statistical Concepts

Journal Article | June 2017

Collaborative activities in the area of science need to incorporate the co-critiquing of a flawed external source, with appropriate scaffolding to also benefit students with low self-regulation levels by mediating…

Research and Teaching: The Variation in Spatial Visualization Abilities of College Male and Female Students in STEM Fields Versus Non-STEM Fields

Journal Article | October 2016

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a difference in spatial visualization ability between college students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields and those in non-STEM…

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…

Research and Teaching: Using Models From the Literature and Iterative Feedback to Teach Students to Construct Effective Data Figures for Poster Presentations

Journal Article | December 2016

Analyzing, interpreting, and clearly presenting real data are skills all students should develop, majors and nonmajors alike. These process skills require lots of practice coupled with targeted feedback from instructors…

Scientific Reasoning for Nonscience Majors: Ronald N. Giere's Approach: Analyzing Scientific Press Reports to Teach Nonmajors the Value of Research

Journal Article | April 1999

Ronald Giere has created a novel and effective approach for teaching general education science courses. His textbook provides students with an opportunity to understand the sciences in the context they will typically…

A Successful Model for Introducing Research in an Undergraduate Program: Confronting the Challenge of Drawing Minorities into Graduate Computer Programs at Florida A&M University

Journal Article | October 1998

The challenges of introducing research in undergraduate programs at four-year institutions are many. Florida A…

Research and Teaching: The Roles of Mentoring and Motivation in Student Teaching Assistant Interactions and in Improving Experience in First-Year Biology Laboratory Classes

Journal Article | February 2015

The authors investigated the impact of changing student–TA relations to include a sense of mentoring by redesigning TA allocations so that students worked with the same TA throughout the semester, but without changing…

Two-Year Community: Cultivating the STEM Transfer Pathway and Capacity for Research: A Partnership Between a Community College and a 4-Year College

Journal Article | February 2014

Summer research experiences have been identified as important vehicles for fostering the learning, skill development, and retention of undergraduates in the sciences. In the initiative described in this article,…

Research and Teaching: Use of Toulmin's Argumentation Scheme for Student Discourse to Gain Insight About Guided Inquiry Activities in College Chemistry

Journal Article | April 2014

Although student production of arguments in group learning environments has been shown to promote scientific reasoning and understanding of science concepts, little previous work has examined the relationship of the…