All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Research and Teaching: Successive Concept Mapping

As alternatives to multiple-choice tests, concept maps offer user-friendly ways of evaluating learning. At the same time, they encourage and reward re...

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Crossing Boundaries

As science teachers, we strive to make our field an effective component of a liberal arts education. How can we make our subject more appealing to the...

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Presenting the Scientific Process

In a course titled Scientific Process, the authors introduce undergraduates to the philosophy and practice of science and initiate them into a 2-year ...

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Encouraging Critical Thinking

Active learning promotes higher-level reasoning, and it can be achieved in large classes without wholesale changes in class format. Applicable methods...

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Research and Teaching: Learning, Reasoning, Motivation and Epistemological Beliefs

This study explored college students' learning approaches, reasoning abilities, motivational goals, and beliefs abut the nature of science relative to...

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A Biology Course for Art Majors

Developing an eye for science....

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Improving Wellness on Campus

Service learning in a human nutrition class....

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Read Like a Scientist to Write Like a Scientist

Using authentic literature in the classroom....