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Building First-Year Science Writing Skills With an Embedded Writing Instruction Program
An important foundational skill developed in an undergraduate science program is the ability to find, critically evaluate, and communicate scientifi...
By David Dansereau, L. E. Carmichael, and Brian Hotson
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Using Team-Based Learning in the Science Classroom
With an overwhelming amount of research and a demand for collaborative learning in the classroom, teachers are tackling challenges at all educationa...
By Virginia J. Moore, Elizabeth Mitchell Prewitt, Amber Jean Carpenter-McCullough, and Brooke A. Whitworth
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Studies on the effectiveness of clickers in undergraduate chemistry courses are mixed, and there is disagreement on how to effectively leverage clic...
By David J. Weiss, Patrick McGuire, Wendi Clouse, and Raphael Sandoval
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Student-Constructed Weather Instruments Facilitate Scientific Inquiry
Students in introductory college science courses often have a simplified understanding of the scientific method. To introduce students to the comple...
By Cindy Shellito
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A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood
First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that the...
By Adele J. Wolfson and Justin Armstrong
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Chemical mnemonic devices have been designed to aid students in understanding chemical concepts in previous years. This has been done for concepts suc...
By Angela L. Mahaffey
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Evaluating Information: The Impact of Major, Class Standing, and Experience With Primary Literature
Social media platforms and other internet sites may propagate inaccurate or misleading information. This misinformation encourages speculation, rumo...
By Shawn Stover and Michelle Mabry
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Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers
This article describes how science educators at a large southeastern university developed specialized science training for elementary preservice teach...
By Tammy D. Lee and Bonnie Glass
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Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course
The authors describe how they introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors. ...
By Emma Kamen and Alessandra Leri
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. ...
By Lester Paldy
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Building Engagement in STEM Through Career Courses at Two-Year Institutions
This month's Two-Year Community column describes how Geo-Launchpad, a program funded by the NSF, exposes students to internships and research opportun...
By Jamie Pawloski and Patrick Shabram
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In this article, the authors explore the opportunity structure in a physics course to identify differences in perception of classroom community among ...
By Michael Brown and Robert M. DeMonbrun
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Integrating Engineering Design in Undergraduate Biology Using a Life Science Design Task
This study examines the initial integration of engineering design in an introductory preservice elementary biology content course using a life science...
By Jeffrey D. Radloff, Selcen Guzey, David Eichinger, and Brenda M. Capobianco
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An Exam Wrapper Intervention in Organic Chemistry I: Impact on Course Performance and Study Behavior
This article describes a quasi-experimental study conducted in two Organic Chemistry I classrooms at a diverse, urban, public university. ...
By Edith Rosales, Alla Chavarga, Evan Grandoit, Shoshana Mayer, Natasha Hackman, Milushka Elbulok-Charcape, Alison C. Domzalski, and Gail Horowitz