All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Society for College Science Teachers: Cheatin' Ain't the Cowboy Way

As academics, we are generally appalled by students who cheat or plagiarize, perhaps because it violates our sense of right and wrong. As educators wh...

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The Case Study: Case Studies and the Media

Just as comedians find content for their material in newspapers and on television, it is possible for educators to use the media as a great source of ...

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Online Class Review: Using Streaming-Media Technology

This article presents an automated system that allows students to replay both audio and video from a large nonmajors’ organic chemistry class as str...

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Point of View: Civic Engagement in the Science Classroom

Science educators are well-positioned to incorporate civic engagement into the classroom by the natural suitability of the subject matter. There are m...

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Teaching With Jazz: Using Multiple Cases to Teach Introductory Biology

Case studies challenge students to think, to process ideas at a higher and more complex cognitive level, and to experience science as a process rather...

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Kermit to Kermette? Does the Herbicide Atrazine Feminize Male Frogs?

This interrupted case study, developed for an honors seminar and a nonmajors chemistry course, is based on data taken from a series of published resea...

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Science and Social Justice: Making the Case for Case Studies

Incorporating social justice into science curricula can attract and maintain the interest of students who shy away from science because of a lack of i...

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Editorial: Teaching With Cases -- Let Me Count the Ways

We're back, with yet another issue on the case study method of teaching. It's a method we think has expanding possibilities, especiallially in its ap...