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Becoming Scientifically Literate: Developing Epistemic Practices through Reading Scientific Papers

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Becoming Scientifically Literate: Developing Epistemic Practices through Reading Scientific Papers

To help students confront pseudoscientific claims and misinformation in their everyday lives, it is important to develop the epistemic practices of sc...

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High School Instructional Materials Literacy Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Teaching for Tomorrow: Scientific Literacy in the Classroom

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Teaching for Tomorrow: Scientific Literacy in the Classroom

This article describes the integrated Coding, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSTEM) full-year course that aligns mathematical skil...

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Literacy Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Tab-meta key: a model for exam review

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Tab-meta key: a model for exam review

Traditional exam reviews are passive and face many challenges to prepare students for exams. In this study, we proposed the “Tab-meta key”...

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Assessment Biology Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

SoTL Clusters: Faculty-focused Needs-Based Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Support

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SoTL Clusters: Faculty-focused Needs-Based Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Support

To further teaching and learning, there has been a push to engage faculty to pursue research on teaching. With the recognition that science research o...

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Leadership New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

Embedding Study Skills in STEM Courses to Increase Retention and Success: A Quantitative Study

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Embedding Study Skills in STEM Courses to Increase Retention and Success: A Quantitative Study

This study was conducted to determine if embedding effective study skills within a course would result in an increased use of these skills and, theref...

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Assessment Preservice Science Education STEM Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Combining Different Inoculation Types to Increase Student Engagement and Build Resilience Against Science Misinformation

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Combining Different Inoculation Types to Increase Student Engagement and Build Resilience Against Science Misinformation

Inoculation theory, which applies the biological concept of vaccination to misinformation, provides a range of ways to effectively build resilience ag...

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Biology Curriculum Literacy Preservice Science Education Teaching Strategies

Comparison of Knowledge Gained in a Face-to-Face versus an Online College-Level Nutrition Course

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Comparison of Knowledge Gained in a Face-to-Face versus an Online College-Level Nutrition Course

Although evidence exists that online education can result in comparable outcomes as the equivalent face-to-face (F2F) version, there is still a dearth...

Distance Learning Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Teaching Preservice Teachers the Water Cycle With a Conceptual Change Model

The purposes of this study were to examine preservice elementary teachers’ conception of the water cycle; determine if participating in a conceptual...

By Patricia Morrell and Adele Schepige

Earth & Space Science Inquiry Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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Low-Level Learning

More than 8 out of every 10 college students are not STEM majors, yet we have little understanding about learning expectations for them. We used the r...

By Austin Heil, Cara Gormally, and Peggy Brickman

Biology Preservice Science Education STEM

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Learning by Listing

Undergraduate STEM students may be overwhelmed by the complex information they are exposed to during their education. Even so, there are a handful of ...

By Nora Demers

Pre-service Teachers Preservice Science Education Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Student Self-Care in the Sciences

Instructor support is associated with various positive outcomes for students. Self-care (taking care of one’s physical, mental, and emotional health...

By Carly Yadon

Advocacy Leadership Preservice Science Education Teaching Strategies

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Development and Implementation of an Undergraduate STEM Peer Coaching Program

Undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) experiences have academic, psychological, and social challenges that require ad...

By Laura E. Swann, Jonathan L. Hall, Katie Vaccaro-Garska, Samantha R. Seals, and Pamela P. Benz

Pedagogy Preservice Science Education STEM Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Using a Socioscientific Issues Approach in an Undergraduate Environmental Science Course

A perennial goal of science educators is to develop functional scientific literacy in their students, especially those who will not become professiona...

By Mark H. Newton

Environmental Science Preservice Science Education Teaching Strategies

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Emphasis on Quality in iNaturalist Plant Collections Enhances Learning and Research Utility

Following the switch to remote online teaching in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the plant taxonomy course at the University of Georgia (UGA) swit...

By Mason C. McNair, Chelsea M. Sexton, and Mark Zenoble

Biology Citizen Science Preservice Science Education

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