All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Point of View: Smooth Handoff—Alignment of Secondary and Collegiate Learner Goals in Science

A winning science education relay is tough to pull off if high school and college instructors misunderstand each other. Difficulties in learner transi...

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A Simple Exercise Reveals the Way Students Think About Scientific Modeling

Scientific modeling is an integral part of contemporary science, yet many students have little understanding of how models are developed, validated, a...

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Enabling a Culture of Change: A Life Science Faculty Learning Community Promotes Scientific Teaching

Significant challenges to education transformation in lecture-oriented science departments include initiating and supporting a dialogue about teaching...

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Favorite Demonstration: Biological Membranes

This demonstration provides an excellent example of how eukaryotic cells are compartmentalized and how important the bilipid layer of the endomembrane...

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Case Study: Uretero What? Gynecological Health Issues, Pregnancy, and an Infant With a Birth Defect

This case study follows the life of a successful career woman who is faced with a series of medical problems and career decisions. The purpose of this...

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Adapting an Annual Research Symposium to Recruit Underrepresented Minorities to Postcollege Education

This paper describes a one-and-a-half day Distinguished Scholar Symposium during which undergraduate underrepresented minorities (URMs) from nearby sc...

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Point of View: Planting the Seeds—The Influence of College Science Teaching on the Generation of Science Teachers

Most undergraduate science students will likely not become science professors, much less people of science (Fox 1998; Tobias 1992). However, some may ...

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Designing Appropriate Scaffolding for Student Science Projects

The authors have developed a successful approach to teaching and inspiring undergraduate science and nonscience majors to complete creditable, semeste...

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Teaching the Principles of Geomicrobiology and the Process of Experimental Research to Undergraduate and First-Year Graduate Students

This article presents a framework for a geomicrobiology course design that has produced impressive gains in students’ contextual knowledge (e.g., Fe...