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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 greatest reversals of direction in all the history of American Higher Education …” He goes on t...

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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 organic chemistry, as in this study (Tien, Roth, and Kampmeier 2002). This pedagogical approach for...

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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 nature of scientific inquiry and its relationship to other ways of knowing. The course included contr...

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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. Self-assessment also eliminates the uncomfortable and burdensome task of peer evaluation. Self-evalu...

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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 ecological patterns and processes in watersheds and aquatic systems. The curriculum provides students with...

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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 these relate to the process as experienced by students. Consideration of professional peer review ben...

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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. Students can actively engage in dialogue with the interviewee using high-speed internet and low-cost servic...