All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Implementing and Evaluating a Peer-Led Team Learning Approach in Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology

This article describes how a Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) program was implemented in a first-year, undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology course sequen...

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Using Popular Text to Develop Inquiry Projects: Supporting Preservice Teachers' Knowledge of Disciplinary Literacy

Many educators support the idea that science requires a specific set of literacy skills and that all students should be equipped with those skills to ...

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Targeted Courses in Inquiry Science for Future Elementary School Teachers

This study reports on targeted science courses for undergraduate childhood education majors. We describe an inquiry-oriented, threecourse sequence spa...

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Research and Teaching: Aligning Assessment to Instruction: Collaborative Group Testing in Large-Enrollment Science Classes

The authors describe a collaborative group-testing strategy implemented and studied in undergraduate science classes. This project investigated how t...

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Research and Teaching: A New Tool for Measuring Student Behavioral Engagement in Large University Classes

The authors developed a classroom observation protocol for quantitatively measuring student engagement in large university classes. The Behavioral Eng...

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Research and Teaching: Methods for Creating and Evaluating 3D Tactile Images to Teach STEM Courses to the Visually Impaired

Project 3D IMAGINE or 3D Image Arrays to Graphically Implement New Education is a pilot study that researches the effectiveness of incorporating 3D ta...

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Point of View: International Undergraduates: The Teaching Challenge

This article discusses the challenges of keeping international students involved in class activities....

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Two-Year Community: Implementing Vision and Change in a Community College Classroom

The purpose of this article is to describe a model for teaching introductory biology coursework within the Vision and Change framework (American Assoc...

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Case Study: A Step-by-Step Guide to Students Writing Case Studies (and Tools for Novice Case Authors)

In experimenting with ways of structuring the assignment and providing guidance to students, the author developed a series of tools that may be of int...