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People’s ability to evaluate scientific research is important to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. STEM educators can use the pandemic to frame instruction of scientific literacy and critical-thinking skills. In a small pilot introductory psychol...
By Monica Kim Ngan Thieu, John C. Foo, and Caroline B. Marvin
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Inquiry-based learning is an educational strategy that emphasizes the student’s role in the learning process by having them propose and test hypotheses through experimentation and/or the collection of observational data. It emphasizes active partic...
By René A. Shroat-Lewis and Melissa Hage
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As undergraduates’ academic distress continues to rise, it is important to consider factors related to classroom anxiety. This study investigated how student anxiety varied by preferred seating location and whether the reasons for their preferred s...
By Elisabeth E. Schussler, Brianna Reynolds, Benjamin J. England, and Jennifer R. Brigati
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Exploring Barriers to the Use of Evidence-Based Instructional Practices
Recent reform documents in postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields recommend the use of evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs) in the classroom. National surveys in the United States suggest a continued r...
By Grant E. Gardner, Evelyn Brown, Zachary Grimes, and Gina Bishara
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Understanding data analysis and interpreting data are key components of teaching interdisciplinary undergraduate students. We detail a semester-long research project that introduces students to long-term data sets, incorporates the use of widely avai...
By Richelle L. Tanner and Lisa E. Collins
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Integrating Science Communication Into a Large STEM Classroom
The communication of scientific findings through writing is an important skill for undergraduate science majors to develop as they move through their respective degree programs. Seeing the importance of science communication skill development, we bro...
By Kerri Donohue, Katherine VanDenburgh, Cathrine Reck, and Gayle Buck
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Incorporating Student-Centered Learning in an Ecosystems Course
Student-centered learning broadly encompasses teaching approaches that shift the focus of instruction from teacher to student by placing an emphasis on what as well as how students want to learn. This approach allows students to become active partici...
By Suchinta Arif
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Are Learning Progressions a Useful Pedagogical Tool for Instructors?
Learning progressions (LPs) present a potential tool to guide students toward deeper understanding of core concepts as they move through a curriculum. In addition to providing a theoretical scheme for education researchers, LPs can provide a powerful...
By Charlotte R. Reed and Adele J. Wolfson
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This article presents results from a Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) grant from the National Science Foundation that supported students from three majors and funded the development of cocurricular activities designed to increase the workforce developme...
By Joanna Joyner-Matos and Kayleen Islam-Zwart
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This study presents a quasi-experiment to assess differences in student performance and satisfaction between two different delivery modes—online and face-to-face education. We collected data from 747 (373 face-to-face cohort, 374 online cohort) stu...
By Hongyan Geng and Mark McGinley
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Student Performance in Ground Versus Online Sections of a Biological Science I College Course
This study is a comparison of ground-based versus online student performance using a combination of common final examination scores and associated demographic data in a biological science college course taught by a single instructor. Multivariate and...
By Peggy Romeo, Marcela Trevino, Frederick Posey, and Scott Romeo
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STEM Teaching Reform: Incremental Pathways
For almost 1,000 years, lecture has been the predominant form of teaching. There has been increasing pressure to abandon lecturing and instead use more active learning strategies. An unfortunate outcome is that didactic lecture remains the dominant f...
By Yunteng He
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Preservice Science Teachers Practice Teaching Online through 4E Instructional Model
This article is prepared as part of a “Practice Teaching in Science” course of a teacher education program aiming for developing prospective science teachers’ teaching through inquiry-based instruction involving practices of science and active ...
By Ozden Sengul
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced higher-education institutions to close campuses and pivot all face-to-face (F2F) instruction online. This transition to Crisis Distance Education (CDE) was unprecedented in scope and speed as it was implemented globally. ...
By J. Phil Gibson and Kristen Shelton
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Faculty Learning Communities Facilitated the Rapid Pivot to Online Teaching and Learning
Faculty learning communities (FLCs), established prepandemic to disseminate and discuss evidence-based teaching practices as part of an NSF-funded project, Investigating Student Success Using Evidence-Based Strategies-eXpanded (ISSUES-X), proved effe...
By Becky Talyn, Sara J. Callori, Karen Cerwin, Mike Chao, Kimberley R. Cousins, Carol Hood, Sally F. McGill, Anthony E. Metcalf, and Laura Woodney