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Scratch This! The IF-AT as a Technique for Stimulating Group Discussion and Exposing Misconceptions

Frequent and immediate feedback is critical for learning and retaining content as well as developing effective learning teams (Michaelson, Knight, and Fink 2004). The Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF-AT) provides a single and efficient way...

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Research and Teaching: An Analysis of Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) in a Science Lecture Classroom

Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) is an online tool being used to integrate a writing component in classrooms. In an introductory zoology lecture class, the authors found that CPR-assigned scores were significantly higher than instructor-assigned scores o...

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Point of View: Research Only Matters if You Do Research That Matters

If we want research to matter we must make the questions asked and issues pursued be about real things, whose answers really matter to the teachers and professors, to the students, and to others who need to know. Merely performing—going through the...

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High-Achieving Postbaccalaureate-Student Teaching Assistants: Effective Instruction in Introductory Laboratory Classrooms

This report, based on data collected over three years, demonstrates that students in the postbaccalaureate student-led laboratory sections perform as well on laboratory assignments as students in the graduate student-led sections when instructor dema...

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Promoting Student Learning Through the Integration of Lab and Lecture: The Seamless Biology Curriculum

The authors engaged in an education experiment to determine if the integration of lab and lecture activities in zoology and botany proved beneficial to student learning and motivation toward biology. Their results revealed that this strategy positive...

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Point of View: Teaching Critical Thinking in an Age of Political Disinformation and Perceived Anti-intellectualism—Helping to Build a Responsible Citizen in a Community-College Setting

Unfortunately, in today’s world of politically motivated disinformation campaigns, our students may arrive at our classrooms already misinformed about science or highly skeptical of its message. It is our job as educators to act as guides on their ...