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What Works in the Nonmajors' Science Laboratory: Some Practical Advice on How to Build a Workable and Meaningful Introductory Science Laboratory

Science laboratories can be "cookbook" or discovery based. Since nonmajors usually lack experience in and motivation for the laboratory, a balanced use of both these approaches works best. This article provides advice on how to build an introductory ...

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Point of View: Is Learning Just a Matter of Tricks? So Why are We Educating? A Rude Awakening for a Science Educator—Promoting Meaning Becomes an Endangered Concept

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue find out what the author faced while expressing interest in some summer part-time work to apply his teaching skills in a diffe...

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Guest Editorial: Inner Guidelines for Undergraduate Teaching—Some Thoughts, News, and Views on K-16 Science Education

An opinion piece about undergraduate teaching where the author shares inner guidelines derived from more than 40 years of teaching in hope that they may be useful to others....

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Introducing College Students to the Scientific Literature and the Library: Analyzing the Scientific Method of Researchers in the Library Component of a Washington State University Course for Nonmajors

In this article, the author helped incorporate a library component into an experimental section of Environmental Science/Resource Planning—a class for nonscience majors. Students were assigned readings from popular science literature followed by a ...

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Research and Teaching: The Cognitive Profile Model of Learning Styles: Differences in Student Achievement in General Chemistry—Considering the Ways Our Students Learn and Teaching to Their Strengths

At Clemson University, a study was conducted to establish relevance and significance of a new model to describe individual differences in learning patterns among students. Results showed significant differences between populations defined by the mode...

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Stressed Stream Analysis—Addressing Environmental Problems in Local Communities: Using Environmental Impact Analysis as a Unifying Theme

For environmental science education to be effective, students must be exposed to the way environmental science is done in the real world. In this article, the author uses an environmental impact analysis as a theme in describing his techniques for ev...

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SCST: The Scholarship of College Science Teaching—A Statement from the Society for College Science Teachers

In this column the leadership of the SCST shares its views with JCST readers. This month's issue features the position statement on the scholarship of college science teaching adopted by the SCST executive board. ...