All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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AIDS and other Human Diseases: Teaching Science in the Context of Culture

A course on AIDS presents many interdisciplinary opportunities as well as interactive pedagogies. In an AIDS course at Whittier College, students lear...

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Research and Teaching: Using Action Research to Improve Teaching and Student Learning in College

An action research approach was used to examine revisions made to the design and delivery of a freshman zoology laboratory section. Because action res...

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Editorial: A Community Challenge -- Career Support for Postdocs

Those long in the tooth will remember when a typical postdoc appointment was usually a relatively short hiatus between the completion of a dissertatio...

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Teaching with Java Applets: Using Online Demonstrations in Large Classes of Nonscience Majors

Instructors can use interactive Java applets to present science in a concrete and meaningful manner to nonscience majors. This article shows how apple...

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Teaching Critical-Thinking Skills Using Course Content Material: A Reversal of Roles

The strategy of getting students to understand science content using critical thinking has been widely used by instructors for decades. The methodolog...

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Genes and Race in the Classroom: Science in a Social Context

This article describes a course for nonscience majors that uses the issue of race in humans to stimulate interest in genetics and other sciences. Stud...

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The Living Earth: Inviting Students into the World of Scientific Research through Seismology

In an introductory geoscience course, various elements of seismology were combined -- such as seismographs, seismograms, simulation of earthquake proc...