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FIRST: A Model for Developing New Science Faculty
Developing education skills in future college faculty is challenging. At the postdoctoral level, Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) ...
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Modeling the Research Process: Alternative Approaches to Teaching Undergraduates
An Introduction to Research course was modified to better teach the process of scientific inquiry to students who were not engaged in research project...
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Favorite Demonstration: A Fruity Biochemistry Demonstration
Inquiry, high-order thinking, reasoning skills, and critical thinking are buzzwords for the outcomes for which college science instructors strive. Th...
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Society for College Science Teachers: Grade Inflation -- Is Ranking Students the Answer?
In recent years, several solutions have been proposed at various institutions nationwide to curb the phenomena of "grade inflation". Solutions includ...
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The Case Study: The Pima Experience -- Three Easy Pieces
The Academic Director of a University Honors Program in Buffalo, NY finds himself at Pima Community College, one of the nation's premier minority/majo...
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Curriculum Integration: Preparing Prospective Teachers
This article describes a science methods course that prepares preservice teachers to integrate a curriculum around thematic units. The project enable...
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Learning to Teach: The Role of Evidence
Prospective science teachers should be taught how to base their planning and instructional decisions on the systematic analysis of evidence of student...
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Promoting Physical Science to Education Majors: Making Connections between Science and Teaching
We address student attitudes toward physical science content knowledge and skills by modeling pedagogy appropriate for the K–8 classroom. Attitude m...
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DNA as a Binary Code: How the Physical Structure of Nucleotide Bases Carries Information
The DNA triplet code also functions as a binary code. Because double-ring compounds cannot bind to double-ring compounds in the DNA code, the sequence...
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The Case Study: A Word to the Wise? Advising Freshman
Freshman frequently struggle with major decisions both in and out of school. Even if they attend required advisement sessions, they do not always hav...