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Society for College Science Teachers: Never Underestimate the Dark Side of the Force

Implementing best practices, however well supported by research, is resisted by both circumstances and people. Thus, what you read and hear about meth...

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Moving Students from Information Recitation to Information Understanding: Exploiting Bloom's Taxonomy in Creating Science Questions

Recent studies have indicated that college undergraduates have retained little understanding of the information in the science courses they have taken...

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The Impact of Teaching Assistants on Student Retention in the Sciences: Lessons for TA Training

Attrition from the sciences remains a national problem. This article presents results from a survey of over 2,100 undergraduates that, contrary to p...

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The Case Study: A Flock of Dodos

Flock of Dodos is a provocative film about intelligent design (ID) complete with animation and argumentative debates along with interviews with pleasa...

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Collaborative Teaching Across Freshman Information Technology and Chemistry Courses

This article discusses a lesson in which chemistry was incorporated into information technology (IT) programming assignments and IT problem solving in...

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Research and Teaching: Web-Based Student Writing and Reviewing in a Large Lecture Course

Though difficult to implement in large courses, undergraduate science writing and peer review are valuable learning experiences for students and valid...

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A Science Portfolio

The use of portfolios has had a positive impact on students, faculty, and the program in the Chemistry Department at Berea College. The portfolio allo...