All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Preparing Undergraduates for Professional Writing

The inability to write scientific papers effectively remains a problem for many college students. To identify pedagogical constructs that help undergr...

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Society for College Science Teachers: Do You Need an Introductory Science Specialist?

For your next general science hire, provide your introductory level students with an expert. This article discusses the practical reasons why you shou...

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Research and Teaching: Promoting Student Learning in a Large General Chemistry Course

Based on recent reports in the science education literature, curricular modifications were made to one section of a freshman-level general chemistry c...

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Instructional Technology Jewels

The authors integrated four technology tools into a course to showcase their pedagogical usefulness. These were Course Compass, a web-based, course-ma...

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Editorial: A Time for Change

In this month’s column, Editor Lester G. Paldy says farewell to the Journal of College Science Teaching (JCST) with the same “panache” as the ...

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Teaching Failure in the Laboratory

Many undergraduate science students are misled by “cookbook” laboratory experiments that make science appear to be easy and to always yield antici...

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Cooperative Concept Mapping

The author used a repeated-measures design to compare students’ exam performance after their participation in a cooperative concept-mapping workshop...

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Learning about Leadership

Peer leaders play a key role in the success of the peer learning teaching method. In this article, we discuss the effect team learning has had on peer...

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Biology of the Southeast

A learning community for science students gives participants an opportunity to design and implement a field biology research project. Integrated into ...

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Favorite Demonstration: Brown Bagging It

This simple and inexpensive technique was designed to catch the attention of introductory zoology students and complements any object-based demonstrat...