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Undergraduate institutions serve as stepping stones to a student’s career. Teaching and learning in the science classrooms requires quality and inte...
By Aditi Sengupta, Nallely Delara, Joyce Barahona, and Justin Garcia
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A Residential Learning Community for Enhancing STEM Education: Program Design and Lessons Learned
There continues to be a concern regarding sustained recruitment and retention of students in STEM majors. Although the rate of attrition in these majo...
By Jessica M. Fautch
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Application of retesting as a learning tool in an online science course
Retrieval practice has been proved effective in conceptual science learning and retesting was applied in retrieval practice and showed significant imp...
By Qunxing Ding and Haiyan Zhu
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Nationally, students fail anatomy and physiology courses at some of the highest rates compared to other courses at the undergraduate level. Formative ...
By Amy Benton and Drew Hataway
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Moving to remote, online learning to meet local and national health guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic posed a challenge for college science cour...
By Matthew Lundquist and Ann Aguanno
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Most introductory science courses are large, lecture-style general education classes. Introduction to Environmental Science (ES 100) at NC State Unive...
By Stephanie Jeffries
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In this article, we discuss Micro Assignment Guided Inquiry and Collaboration (MAGIC), an active learning method that draws on the merits of inquiry-b...
By R.F. Malenda, S. Talbott, and Scott Walck
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Equitable sensemaking enables students to draw on personal resources to investigate and explain phenomena and problems within their communities. Altho...
By Jessica Stephenson Reaves and Anna Arias
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Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Online Teamwork Activities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was suddenly necessary to shift college courses online. Many instructors without experience teaching online were face...
By Tracy Ediger, Olga Glebova, Michael Waterson, and Matthew Nusnbaum
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Authentic assessments for an in-person or online science course for pre-service teachers
Creating authentic science assessments that engage students in conceptual understanding and provide evidence of their learning is challenging. Student...
By Stefany M. Sit and Laura Zeller
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Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) increase student engagement in scientific practices and allow students to generate novel findi...
By Ginger R. Fisher, Kevin W. Floyd, and Jeffrey T. Olimpo
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Communicating scientific findings is an accepted part of the research experience, but few science programs include explicit undergraduate curricula fo...
By E. Austin Leone and Donald P. French
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An introductory physics course may be run like a video game, where students have an almost unlimited number of attempts to demonstrate their competenc...
By Minjoon Kouh
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Transdisciplinary learning—where students develop and apply knowledge from multiple disciplines to solve open-ended problems—is necessary to prepa...
By Anna DeJarnette, Stephanie Rollmann, Dieter Vanderelst, John Layne, Anna Hutchinson
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Implementing Universal Design for Learning in the Higher Education Science Classroom
There is a growing need for college science faculty to teach a diverse group of learners. The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework can be use...
By Breanne Kirsch, Theodore Bryan, David Hoferer