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SCST: Distance Learning—Meeting Our Educational Responsibilities with Technology

In this column the leadership of the Society for College Science Teaching (SCST) shares its views with JCST readers. This month’s issue focuses on the concerns of meeting our educational responsibilities with technology....

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A Running Inquiry—Nature Asked the Questions During This Jog: Discovering in a Maine Forest a “Call of the Wild”

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue, during a morning jog, the author vowed to interact with nature along the jogging path of the Maine forest in the context of d...

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Research and Teaching: Small Group Instruction in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology—A Discipline Status Report and a Teaching Agenda for the Future

This paper is an attempt to place the recent flurry of activity into context for SMET faculty. It contains nearly 100 resources which may be useful to researchers, theorists, and practitioners in this area. The resources will be particularly helpful ...

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A Curriculum for Recitation Sections in Introductory Biology: Designing Lesson Plans for TAs that Emphasize Open Communication and Spirited Interaction with Students

Recitation sections are led by a graduate teaching assistant (TA). Introductory biology is often the TAs' first recitation teaching experience, and the TA receives little guidance on how to direct the section. In this article, the author developed a ...

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Editorial: Undergraduate Education in Science: The Message

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

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Research and Teaching: Tracking the Modern Geoscience Undergraduate—A University of North Carolina Case Study

Continued decreases in government funding, increasing enrollments, and the demand for accountability and assessment characterize the new landscape of higher education. One facet of the demand for accountability is a belief that undergraduate students...

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The Case Study: Is There Life on Mars? Debating the Existence of Extraterrestrial Life in a Classroom Dilemma Case

In this case study, the word has leaked that evidence of life on Mars has been discovered. These findings were publicized in advance of Science magazine's report. This conflict sets the stage for this case study....