All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Getting More Scientists to Revamp Teaching

The rapid diffusion of clickers at their university leads the authors to propose that faculty development strategies may gain in being explicitly informed by both the scientists' most immediate needs as teachers and the findings from diffusion of inn...

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Pitching Environmental Science to Business Majors: Engaging Students in Renewable Energy Choices

This article describes an active learning strategy for engaging undergraduate business students, a group often ignored in scientific pedagogy, in learning about renewable energy technology and associated trade-offs...

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Integrating Vision and Change Into a Biology Curriculum at a Small Comprehensive College

The authors describe the process of curricular change that occurred in the Biology Department of Elmhurst College in the suburbs of Chicago. This 10-year process involved an update of the mission statement, revision of the lower level core course seq...

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Examples From the Trenches: Improving Student Learning in the Sciences Using Team-Based Learning

One method for reforming how college science is taught is shifting to a more student-centered collaborative instructional format using team-based learning (TBL). The purpose of this article is to describe the structure and implementation of TBL and t...

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Undergraduate Research and a Liberal Arts Education: Similar Goals, Similar Solutions

In this article the authors argue that the goals of a liberal arts education and undergraduate research are remarkably similar and that by incorporating an undergraduate research focus with a liberal arts approach in the classroom, instructors can mo...

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Development of an Instrument to Assess Student Knowledge Necessary to Critically Evaluate Scientific Claims in the Popular Media

There are few instruments available that science educators can use to assess whether students can apply what they know about scientific practices to critique scientific media reports. In response to the need for valid, reliable, and informative asses...

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Research and Teaching: Use of Toulmin's Argumentation Scheme for Student Discourse to Gain Insight About Guided Inquiry Activities in College Chemistry

Although student production of arguments in group learning environments has been shown to promote scientific reasoning and understanding of science concepts, little previous work has examined the relationship of the structure of curricular materials ...

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Research and Teaching: Analyzing Upper Level Undergraduate Knowledge of Evolutionary Processes: Can Class Discussions Help?

The study described in this article aimed to quantify knowledge and misconceptions of evolutionary processes among upper level undergraduate students and analyze how knowledge and misconceptions changed throughout a semester-long, discussion-based co...

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Research and Teaching: Photovoice as a Pedagogical Tool: Student Engagement in Undergraduate Introductory Chemistry for Nonscience Majors

This study explores the use of Photovoice as a pedagogical tool in two introductory undergraduate chemistry courses for nonscience majors....

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Point of View: The Need for Fieldwork in Science

The author makes a case for fieldwork as having a strong capacity for increasing both science and nonscience majors' abilities to learn complex concepts, with the added benefit of actively engaging minority and female students in science....

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Two-Year Community: Human Anatomy Software Use in Traditional and Online Anatomy Laboratory Classes: Student-Perceived Learning Benefits

This study evaluates the effectiveness of human anatomy software in face-to-face and online anatomy laboratory classes....