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Instructing Students in Academic Integrity
Plagiarism is a great temptation to students in this digital age, in areas ranging from the purchase of term papers on the internet to improper citing of sources in reports to the inappropriate use of clickers in the classroom. The authors have explo...
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Research and Teaching: Redesigning the Preexam Review Session
In a large enrollment, multiple-section course, review sessions enable efficient and consistent delivery of information to all students. A redesigned review session has been implemented to increase attendance and improve effectiveness. The new design...
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The Effectiveness of a Case Study-Based First-Year Biology Class at a Black Women’s College
The authors used a case study-based approach in the introductory biology course at Spelman College. The course taught to entering freshmen was divided into three modules—ecology, evolution, and biodiversity, each designed around a case study. They ...
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Society for College Science Teaching: Finding Your Voice
In this month’s column, the author briefly outlines a few of the benefits of having a Society of College Science Teaching (SCST) membership. She hopes that college science faculty looking for a professional society to support and promote their inte...
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Implementation of an Explicit and Reflective Pedagogy in Introductory Biology Laboratories
Students need to reflect on the practice of science to fully understand the nature of science (NOS), which is an important component of scientific literacy. In this paper, the authors describe how to implement an explicit and reflective pedagogy in c...
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Clickers were used for real-time data collection in two introductory biology laboratory courses so that students could perform statistical analysis on large data sets. Student attitudes toward this use of clickers were surveyed and students were admi...