All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

Journal Article

Innovative Assessment Tools for a Short, Fast-Paced, Summer Field Course

An experiential science program, such as a summer course at a field station, requires unique assessment tools. Traditional assessment via a pencil-and...

Journal Article

Case Study: Ethanol or Biodiesel? A Systems-Analysis Decision

This case study stresses the need to broadly consider an entire system, including all of the energy inputs and outputs involved, to determine the real...

Journal Article

Favorite Demonstration: A Simple Model of Hox Genes—Bone Morphology Demonstration

Visual demonstrations of abstract scientific concepts are effective strategies for enhancing content retention (Shmaefsky 2004). The concepts associat...

Journal Article

Favorite Demonstration: Experiencing the Nature of Science—An Interactive, Beginning-of-Semester Activity

Students’ learning about the nature of science (NOS) consists of two related aspects that include their understandings of and ability to apply scien...

Journal Article

Pedagogical Issues in Teaching Upper-Level Science Courses at a “Community University”

The authors teach upper-level science courses in cell biology, genetics, and biochemistry at a public, four-year “community university” that serve...

Journal Article

Research and Teaching: Promoting the Use of Higher-Order Cognitive Skills in Qualitative Problem Solving

A study was conducted to promote higher order cognitive skills (HOCS) in a chemistry class using the GOAL (Gather, Organize, Analyze, and Learn) metho...

Journal Article

Editorial: Uneasy Lies the Head

Department Chairs are where the rubber meets the road—with all the pressure and friction therein implied. They are bestowed with a remarkable range ...

Journal Article

Learning Simple Machines Through Cross-Age Collaborations

In this project, introductory college physics students (noneducation majors) were asked to teach simple machines to a class of second graders. This no...