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Writing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy

Writing a statement of teaching philosophy is a cornerstone of reflective and scholarly practice in teaching and learning. A strategic set of practica...

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Weekly Reports: Student Reflections on Learning

Weekly reports, a structured journal form of formative assessment, allow instructors to receive information from the students, to address students’ ...

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Research and Teaching: Practical Considerations for Assessing Inquiry-Based Instruction

Research shows that inquiry learning promotes achievement and positive student attitudes toward science. One obstacle to implementing inquiry learning...

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Students as Storytellers

Students enrolled in an Enhanced Bioscience Education (EBE) program maintained two documents: a group notebook to record observations made in the bios...

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Acting Out Science

Role-playing is an effective summative activity that aids student learning and integrates science information and concepts. The authors describe the u...

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Can Problem-based Instruction Stimulate Higher Order Thinking?

One of two Instrumental Analysis Laboratory sections at Northern Arizona University was converted from its traditional format into a problem-based for...

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Making the Grade

This article describes a novel approach to evaluating students in a seminar-style science course. The approach involves students in the design of the ...

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The Case Study: Science, Law, and the Pursuit of Knowledge

Science and law are institutions for developing, testing, justifying, and authorizing belief, yet are often viewed as two different ways of knowing. A...

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The Campus Ecosystem Model

Interdisciplinary teaching, research experience, and active, collaborative strategies have all been identified as practices highly favorable to the le...

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Evaluating College Science and Mathematics Instruction

This paper reports evaluative data on five courses that have taken part in a curriculum reform effort called the Arizona Collaborative for Excellence ...