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Methods and Strategies: Gather 'Round
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue explores the wonders of science through read-alouds.
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Getting More Scientists to Revamp Teaching
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The rapid diffusion of clickers at their university leads the authors to propose that faculty development strategies may gain in being explicitly informed by both the scientists' most immediate needs as teachers and the…
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Pitching Environmental Science to Business Majors: Engaging Students in Renewable Energy Choices
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This article describes an active learning strategy for engaging undergraduate business students, a group often ignored in scientific pedagogy, in learning about renewable energy technology and associated trade-offs
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Integrating Vision and Change Into a Biology Curriculum at a Small Comprehensive College
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The authors describe the process of curricular change that occurred in the Biology Department of Elmhurst College in the suburbs of Chicago. This 10-year process involved an update of the mission statement, revision of…
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Examples From the Trenches: Improving Student Learning in the Sciences Using Team-Based Learning
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One method for reforming how college science is taught is shifting to a more student-centered collaborative instructional format using team-based learning (TBL). The purpose of this article is to describe the structure…
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Undergraduate Research and a Liberal Arts Education: Similar Goals, Similar Solutions
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In this article the authors argue that the goals of a liberal arts education and undergraduate research are remarkably similar and that by incorporating an undergraduate research focus with a liberal arts approach in…
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There are few instruments available that science educators can use to assess whether students can apply what they know about scientific practices to critique scientific media reports. In response to the need for valid,…
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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…
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The study described in this article aimed to quantify knowledge and misconceptions of evolutionary processes among upper level undergraduate students and analyze how knowledge and misconceptions changed throughout a…
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This study explores the use of Photovoice as a pedagogical tool in two introductory undergraduate chemistry courses for nonscience majors.
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Point of View: The Need for Fieldwork in Science
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The author makes a case for fieldwork as having a strong capacity for increasing both science and nonscience majors' abilities to learn complex concepts, with the added benefit of actively engaging minority and female…
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This study evaluates the effectiveness of human anatomy software in face-to-face and online anatomy laboratory classes.
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Case Study: The Mystery of the Seven Deaths: A Case Study in Cellular Respiration
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In this interrupted, problem-based case study, students explore the purpose of cellular respiration as they play the role of medical examiner, analyzing autopsy evidence to determine the mysterious cause of death for…
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Channeling Your Inner Entomologist
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A partnership between a teacher and an entomologist engages second graders in a study of insect locomotion.
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Fifth graders take an interdisciplinary field trip to a farm and learn science and local history in the process.
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