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Adapting a Student-Centered Chemistry Curriculum to a Large-Enrollment Context: Successes and Challenges

Student-centered forms of instruction based in a constructivist framework, where students are guided toward actively constructing their understanding, have been met with success. However, implementation of constructivist-based curricula and complemen...

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Student-Designed Experiments: A Pedagogical Design for Introductory Science Labs

Despite numerous calls for science education to be driven by authentic investigation, many laboratory experiences continue to consist of disconnected weekly units during which students carry out instructions that lead to some predetermined finding. T...

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Group Active Engagement Exercises: Pursuing the Recommendations of Vision and Change in an Introductory Undergraduate Science Course

Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education: A Call to Action, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011, suggested cultivating biological literacy and practicing more student-centered learning in undergraduate lif...

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A Crash Course in Undergraduate Research

Studies have shown that engaging students in undergraduate research and improving students’ science identities will increase minority students’ chances of completing their degrees and pursuing graduate studies. This article describes a beginner-l...

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Increasing Student Interactions With Learning

The authors discuss the use of specific teaching strategies to increase student interactions with student learning objectives....