All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Case Study: Learning About the Nature of Science With Case Studies

Case studies are an effective way to help students understand how science works, and perhaps even more importantly, how science knowledge is construct...

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Favorite Demonstration: Using Dice to Explore the Consequences of DNA Mutations

Working collaboratively, students explore the effect of different types of DNA mutations using dice. The exercise provides students with a tangible wa...

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Society for College Science Teachers: A Reader’s Response to SCST November/December 2008 and the Author’s Response

Thomas Lord in his column in the November/December issue of JCST claims that “The shift from academic merit to student consumerism is one of the two...

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Research and Teaching: Are In-Class Peer Leaders Effective in the Peer-Led Team-Learning Approach?

Peer-led team learning (PLTL) has been widely adopted for enhanced learning in a variety of disciplines, mostly in introductory chemistry, but also in...

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Developing and Implementing an Interdisciplinary Origins Course at a State University

A truly interdisciplinary course was successfully developed and taught that presented an overview of the historical sciences with an emphasis on the n...

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Society for College Science Teachers: “What? Professors Evaluating Themselves? Are You Out of Your Mind?” In Defense of Faculty Self-Evaluation

Self-assessment is a win-win evaluation system. Evaluees, not the department or university, control the process by selecting the evaluation criteria. ...

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Ecohydrology as an Undergraduate Degree: Challenges in Developing an Interdisciplinary Major

In the new ecohydrology major at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), students learn about the relationships between hydrologic mechanisms and ecolog...

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Designing Peer Review for Pedagogical Success: What Can We Learn From Professional Science?

This article compares peer review in professional versus education settings, summarizing key aspects of scientific peer review and reflecting on how t...

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Favorite Demonstration: The Internet-Telephone Interview as a Classroom Teaching Tool

The in-class telephone interview is discussed as a teaching tool that adds an additional active-learning dimension to a classroom environment. Student...