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A Multidimensional Approach to Teaching Biology: Injecting Analytical Thoughts Into the Scientific Process

This article describes a series of investigative courses that emphasize the process of science using original research projects. Each course is tailored to different types of students including biology majors, nonscience liberal arts majors, and earl...

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Designing and Implementing a Constructivist Chemistry Laboratory Program: Tinkering With the Laboratory Curricula To Get It Right

The author, an educational program specialist at the University of California, Davis, developed a constructivist chemistry laboratory where students had the opportunity to develop their own experimental procedures. This article describes some of the ...

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Choosing Primary Literature in Biology to Achieve Specific Educational Goals

A professor at SUNY Geneseo, the author reports on her experiences using primary literature as the major focus of a seminar on evolutionary biology. The author, having discovered that the choice of articles can be the key to student understanding of ...

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Editorial: Where There's a Market, There's a Way: Student Entrepreneurs—Filling a Niche in Education

The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue. ...

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Observational Journals: An Aid to Sky Watching: A Stellar Exercise—Predicting Events in the Sky

The endless procession of the Sun, Moon, and stars allows science students to fashion predictive models by keeping their own observational journals. Through careful recordkeeping, classroom discussion, and reflective writing, students’ work progres...

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Point of View: Astrobiology Courses—A Useful Framework for Teaching Interdisciplinary Science: Setting the Record Straight on the Possibility of Extraterrestrial Intelligence

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue focuses on Astrobiology—the investigation into the possibility of extraterrestrial life—a topic that both captures the public...

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Choosing Primary Literature in Biology to Achieve Specific Educational Goals: Some Guidelines for Identifying the Strengths and Weaknesses of Prospective Research Articles

The author, a professor at SUNY Geneseo, reports on her experiences using primary literature as the major focus of a seminar on evolutionary biology. Having discovered that the choice of articles can be the key to student understanding of scientific ...

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Research and Teaching: Conceptual Change in Introductory-Level Astronomy Courses

As part of a project to transform an introductory astronomy course (Bisard and Zeilik, 1998), the authors developed, validated, and presented a set of multiple-choice questions to hundreds of students at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Central...

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“Creative Final Projects” in Mathematics and Science: An Educational Instrument for Maximizing Students' Learning and Understanding

In a final class project, art and communications students taking science and mathematics courses at Chicago’s Columbia College and the Illinois Institute of Art produce a significant creative work using a media of their own choosing. In this articl...

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SCST: Changes in Science Education—Are We Getting Ready? Predicting Education’s Future

In this column the leadership of SCST shares its views with JCST readers. This article's focus is on the new millennium which establishes a natural marking point for change. Reflection on the last 10 years might give some insight into the direction w...