All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Student evaluations of faculty teaching are imperfect and incomplete, but they are here to stay. Students’ ignorance of what it takes to do our jobs...

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College Science Teaching Changing to Mirror Real Science in Turkish Higher Education

College science is often poorly taught and it is rare that any consideration is given to the nine visions for reform of science teaching featured in t...

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Society for College Science Teachers: Putting Inquiry Teaching to the Test: Enhancing Learning in College Botany

Can you imagine a class where students cover the content with each other rather than simply listening to the professor’s lecture? Can you envision s...

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The Case Study: A Symphony for Your Brain

In this case study, students examine an advertisement claiming that listening to classical music in an advertised CD set will enhance their cognitive ...

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Point of View: Intelligent Design: Jonathan Wells and the Tree of Life

In recent years, the intelligent design (ID) movement has been very successful in attracting the attention of the general public. The ID movement is ...

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Cape Wind: A Public Policy Debate for the Physical Sciences

Since the industrial revolution, technological innovation and the application of basic scientific research have transformed society. Increasingly, cri...

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Research and Teaching: How Constructivist Are We? Representations of Transmission and Participatory Models of Instruction in the <em>Journal of College Science Teaching</em>

Constructivism has become a widely understood and broadly accepted learning theory. Constructivism contends that each of us makes sense of our world b...

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The Case Study: Using a Case-Study Article to Effectively Introduce Mitosis

Community college students in a nonmajors biology class are introduced to mitosis by reading a case-study article that allows them to gauge how many t...

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Improving Advising in the Sciences: Analysis of the Educational Environments of Science- and Math-Related Majors

Students, faculty, and advisers must have ready access to current, accurate, and useable information about programs and curricula (Commission for Un...

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Research and Teaching: Improving Students’ Perceptions of Benefits of Science Demonstrations and Content Mastery in a Large-Enrollment Chemistry Lecture Demonstration Course for Nonscience Majors

A large enrollment, instructor-centered chemistry course taught with science demonstrations was transformed into one that was more student-centered. C...