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Research and Teaching: Understanding How Undergraduate Research Experiences Influence Student Aspirations for Research Careers and Graduate Education

Extant and emerging literature on undergraduate research experiences (UREs) focuses on the identification of their benefits to student participants. This study offers descriptions, drawn from an analysis of students' reflective journals, of three pro...

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Case Study: Assessing Critical-Thinking Skills Using Articles From the Popular Press

The author describes an instrument for evaluating critical-thinking skills using science articles in the popular press....

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Integrative Biology: A Capstone Course for an Introductory Biology Core

A capstone to a biology introductory curriculum was developed with the specific goals of enhancing integration of course content, promoting development of oral presentation skills and critical reading and thinking skills, and introducing ecological p...

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Guest Editorial: Retreading the Grades K–16 Coordination Mission Statement: Improving the Traction Along Two-to Four-Year Community Educational Pathways

The author suggests expanding the NSTA community to two-year communities and four-year communities, so they can participate in conversations about grades 13–16 coordination....

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A Novel Technology to Investigate Students' Understandings of Enzyme Representations

This article describes how digital pen-and-paper technology was used to improve data collection in research regarding students' learning, specifically their understanding of enzyme-substrate interactions as depicted in textbook representations....

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The Structure and Assessment of a Unique and Popular Interdisciplinary Science Course for Nonmajors

Science Without Borders is a unique interdisciplinary science course that uses group and active-learning strategies and is in high demand among nonscience majors at a masters-level university. This article describes the course's unique structure and ...

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Headline Science: Migrating Songbirds Depart on Time, Active Forest Management Aids Owl Species, Two Solar System Puzzles Solved, Greenhouse Gas Methane in the Arctic

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Nonscience Majors' Perceptions on the Use of YouTube Video to Support Learning in an Integrated Science Lecture

The instructor of an integrated science course for nonscience majors embedded content-related video segments from YouTube and other similar internet sources into lecture. Through this study, the instructor wanted to know students' perceptions of how ...

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Developing Graduate Student's Knowledge of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Through Lesson Study

A group of graduate teaching assistants collaborated with a biology professor and a science educator in a Japanese Lesson Study to directly address a need for contextualized learning. The results indicated that the participants were able to articulat...