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Case Study: Rocket Mail: Using Historic Articles as Case Studies in Physics and Engineering

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue discusses two approaches to exploring and analyzing figures and articles from ol...

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Teaching Quantitative Reasoning for Nonscience Majors Through Carbon Footprint Analysis

This article describes and assesses a laborastory exercise that has students calculate their "carbon footprint" and evaluate the impacts of various behavior choices on that footprint....

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Active Learning in the Atmospheric Science Classroom and Beyond Through High-Altitude Ballooning

This article describes the implementation of high-altitude balloon research into a variety of undergraduate atmospheric science classes as a means of increasing active student engagement in real-world, problem-solving events....

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Using Collaboration Between English and Biology to Teach Scientific Writing and Communication

This article describes a model for a scientific writing and communication course....

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Too Long to Read: Assessing the Motivation Behind Graduate Student Attendance in Reading Groups

Graduate-level reading groups serve as a primary forum for students to learn current and complex concepts in their field. Because graduate students lament that reading "abnormally long" articles discourage them from attending particular reading group...

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Eliminating the Textbook: Learning Science With Cell Phones

This article describes a study that compares student learning in an ecology course between a semester in which cell phones were used to access information....

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Research and Teaching: Statistics Across the Curriculum Using an Iterative, Interactive Approach in an Inquiry-Based Lab Sequence

The authors describe four instructional modules with the goals of increasing student confidence, appreciation, and performance in both experimental design and data analysis....

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Research and Teaching: Midterm and First-Exam Grades Predict Final Grades in Biology Courses

This article describes a study in which the authors analyzed the extent to which two standard forms of feedback, midterm and first-exam grades, correlated with final grades in several biology courses....

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Research and Teaching: Undergraduate Science Learners Show Comparable Outcomes Whether Taught by Undergraduate or Graduate Teaching Assistants

This article describes a a comparison of student performance in a series of two introductory biology classes and one third-year class shows that students with graduate teaching assistant and undergraduate teaching assistant leaders earn comparable fi...