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For many years, the remarkable artists and graphic designers at NSTA have given JCST intriguing and delightful covers. However, focus groups and co...

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Brain Awareness Day: A Service-Learning Experience in Neuroscience

Three local colleges in the Lehigh Valley collaborate on a service-learning project called Brain Awareness Day to enhance neuroscience literacy among ...

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Extrasensory Perception—Pseudoscience?

This case teaches students to be skeptical of “scientific claims,” especially those that are sensational and fall outside the boundaries of normal...

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Society for College Science Teachers: Please <em> Don’t </em> Read the Text Before Coming to Lecture

It’s common for college professors to require students to complete a reading from the textbook prior to coming to class. Most professors who maintai...

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Guest Editorial: NSF Research Outreach Requirements—An Opportunity for <em> JCST </em> Readers

A recent issue of the American Physical Society newsletter (2007) described the various reactions that research physicists have to the NSF requirement...

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Teaching Science With Case Studies: A National Survey of Faculty Perceptions of the Benefits and Challenges of Using Cases

To understand more about faculty perceptions of the instructional benefits of and barriers to using case studies, the authors surveyed 101 science fac...

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Giving Birth to Someone Else’s Children? A Case of Disputed Maternity

Most students have heard about situations in which the paternity of a child is questioned; in a surprising reversal, in this case study, maternity is ...

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Editorial: The Boy Scouts Said It Best—Some Advice on Case-Study Teaching and Student Preparation

Students are seldom prepared. They have many things, most not related to school, on their minds in college. In large classes in particular, student at...