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Discover student thinking while analyzing data…and having fun! (Data Literacy 101)
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Our students rarely practice data skills with data not related to our science content, which makes sense given all we must teach. But always asking our students to succeed at the data skill move (e.g., graphing,…
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Promoting Sensemaking Through an Impactful Instructional Sequence
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A valuable framework for promoting sensemaking includes the convergence of two independent ideas: (1) the focus of modern education on teaching for understanding and transfer, and (2) a purposeful sequence of…
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Students as Creators of Instructional Videos: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
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Clear, detailed instructional procedures have an important role to play in laboratory teaching, not only to produce consistent results, but to ensure safe practices. Student success in using these can be strengthened…
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Inoculation theory, which applies the biological concept of vaccination to misinformation, provides a range of ways to effectively build resilience against misinformation. In this article, we define and organize the…
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Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences for Laboratory Learning in the Life Sciences
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Laboratory learning in the life sciences is historically centered around following recipe-like instructions to complete activities with defined outcomes. The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s…
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"Signs, Signs, Everywhere the Signs": Interpretive Trail Signage for Biodiversity Education
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Postsecondary science faculty face challenges in balancing the engagement of undergraduates while concomitantly ensuring knowledge is gained and retained, either in standard lectures or labs as well as in outdoor…
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Transforming Science Education in an Age of Misinformation
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Scientific misinformation has reached alarming proportions. Here, we summarize a new expert report, Science Education in an Age of Misinformation, that outlines what science education can do to address this problem and…
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Project-Based Statistics Outcomes: Pre- and Post- COVID
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The COVID-19 pandemic altered course delivery in higher education at many universities. This paper evaluates the differences in student experiences in the fall 2019 semester (pre-pandemic) against student experiences in…
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Use of a Student-Ally in Emergency Remote Teaching
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This manuscript reviews This manuscript reviews the peculiarities of emergency remote teaching (ERT) –in the context of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic – compared to in-person and traditional online teaching. A…
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Embedding Study Skills in STEM Courses to Increase Retention and Success: A Quantitative Study
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This study was conducted to determine if embedding effective study skills within a course would result in an increased use of these skills and, therefore, increase success and retention in introductory level science,…
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SoTL Clusters: Faculty-focused Needs-Based Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Support
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To further teaching and learning, there has been a push to engage faculty to pursue research on teaching. With the recognition that science research often occurs in research teams, we sought to create a research-cluster…
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Tab-meta key: a model for exam review
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Traditional exam reviews are passive and face many challenges to prepare students for exams. In this study, we proposed the “Tab-meta key†model, which emphasizes five major factors (Time, Accountability, Big…
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Single Parents Represent an Underutilized Resource for Undergraduate Research Training
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Undergraduate and graduate research opportunities represent a unique educational opportunity for students in that it can stimulate interest and potential careers in academic disciplines. Students who are single parents…
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Virtual field experiences (VFEs) hold promise as a mechanism to approximate the in situ field experiences that are central to many undergraduate programs in the natural sciences. In this Delphi study, the collective…
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Redesigning an environmental curriculum for student engagement
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Apart from equipping learners with 21st-century skills, environmental science (ES) education fosters problem-solving, creativity, critical thinking, and a sense of responsibility and agency in children. Community…
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