The Effect of Online Instruction in an Introductory Anatomy and Physiology Course and Implications for Online Laboratory Instruction in Health Field Prerequisites

Journal Article | April 2021

Education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is increasingly online, even the laboratory components of STEM courses. As online laboratory education trends upward in terms of enrollment and variety of…

Starting at the Beginning

Journal Article | April 2021

This study examines what prior knowledge and misconceptions about evolutionary theory students bring with them into an introductory biological anthropology course. One hundred and fifty-three students completed short,…

The Energy Zipline

Journal Article | April 2021

From Local to Global

Journal Article | April 2021

Green Plants, Red Glow

Journal Article | June 2021

Implementing Peer-Led Team Learning and Cyber Peer-Led Team Learning in an Organic Chemistry Course

Journal Article | January 2021

Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) is a small-group, collaborative problem-solving model that has significantly increased student performance in a variety of chemistry undergraduate courses and other STEM courses. Cyber Peer…

(W)holistic Science Pedagogy

Journal Article | August 2021

Conservation Meets Design Thinking

Journal Article | January 2022

Students as Science Content Creators and Evaluators

Journal Article | November 2022

Within the context of higher education, the disciplines of science and filmmaking appear disparate, but the importance of storytelling as an integral part of science and research deserves closer examination. Humans have…

Bringing Engineering Into Play

Journal Article | November 2022

Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course

Journal Article | October 2019

The authors describe how they introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors.

An Interview With Atmospheric Scientist Shawn Urbanski

Journal Article | February 2019

Atmospheric scientists study the chemical composition of the atmosphere. More specifically, they look at how atmospheric gases, liquids, and solids interact both with each other and with the earth's surface. This helps…

What Makes Them Tick? Middle School Data Science Explorations of Ticks and Lyme Disease

Journal Article | September 2020

Cut It Out!

Case Study | June 2017

From Cow Juice to a Billion Dollar Drug, With Some Breakthroughs in Between

Case Study | May 2013