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Research and Teaching: Calibrated Peer Review Assignments in Science Courses—Are They Designed to Promote Critical Thinking and Writing Skills?

Calibrated Peer Review (CPR), an online program that purportedly helps students develop as writers and critical thinkers, is being increasingly used by science educators. CPR is an enticing tool since it does not require instructors to grade student ...

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Building a Better Biology Lab? Testing Tablet PC Technology in a Core Laboratory Course

Tablet PC technology can enliven the classroom environment because it is dynamic, interactive, and “organic,” relative to the rigidity of chalkboards, whiteboards, overhead projectors, and PowerPoint presentations. Unlike traditional computers, t...

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Multiple Pedagogical Reforms Implemented in a University Science Class to Address Diverse Learning Styles

In an attempt to increase student success in the physical sciences, the authors implemented a system of multiple education reforms in their general chemistry courses to reach diverse learning styles. Results from the study indicated that the reforms ...

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The Sport-Utility Vehicle: Debating Fuel-Economy Standards in Thermodynamics

This paper describes a debate about national fuel-economy standards for sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) used as a foundation for exploring a public policy issue in the physical science classroom. The subject of automobile fuel economy benefits from a f...

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Using Science Popularizations to Promote Learner-Centered Teaching

This article attempts to evaluate why popularizations seem to generate positive reactions from learners and why the authors find themselves using popularizations more and more frequently. In doing a retrospective analysis, the authors have drawn on t...

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Favorite Demonstration: Taking Poetic License With Science Instruction

The intersection of science and poetry is, of course, not new. Mixing art into science is a useful pedagogical tool, provided that students are prepared for a novel activity. In the activity described here, poetry and marine ecology are intertwined t...

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Favorite Demonstration: An Evaluation of the Efficacy of a Laboratory Exercise on Cellular Respiration

This study is an analysis of the effectiveness of a faculty-designed laboratory experience about a difficult topic, cellular respiration. The activity involves a hands-on model of the cellular-respiration process, making use of wooden ball-and-stick ...

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Editorial: Face Value

As instructors of young people, we have come to look beyond unflattering fashions, unfortunate piercings, and unbelievable hair to the people beyond. Misinterpreting a resting face, however, is a more insidious problem because it is essentially autom...

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Student Evaluations That Generate More Questions Than Answers

As a chemical educator, one of the author’s primary goals is to provide students with tools for effective learning, hopefully doing so in an engaging, motivating, and incrementally challenging experience. In her quest to figure out how to do a bett...