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Point of View: Think Outside the Box: A Logic-Defying "Impossible" Solution

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses educating teachers about problem solving....

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Research and Teaching: Graduate Teaching Assistant Training That Fosters Student-Centered Instruction and Professional Development

This article discusses the effect of a new graduate teaching assistant training program on the TA's ability to lead student-centered recitations and on their professional development....

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A Journal Club Workshop That Teaches Undergraduates a Systematic Method for Reading, Interpreting, and Presenting Primary Literature

This article describes a journal club mini-workshop in which students learn a systematic method for reading primary literature. Students who have been taught this method are better able to interpret, critique, and present primary articles in a journa...

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Electromagnetism Unit of an Introductory University Physics Course: The Influence of a Reform-Based Tutorial

This study assesses students' conceptual understanding and interest during the electrochemistry unit of a physics course for nonphysics majors that was revised in light of consistently low ratings from its students. The intervention, designed to impr...

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Research and Teaching: Transforming the Lowest-Performing Students: An Intervention That Worked

This article describes a small-scale study to investigate if a brief timely intervention focusing on specific study strategies would improve student performance in university science courses....

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Self-Monitoring Tools and Student Academic Success: When Perception Matches Reality

This study investigates the effectiveness of use of self-assessment and post-exam reflection forms as cognitive feedback and additional self-regulated learning strategies students can use to achieve a positive outcome on exams....

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Point of View: Biology Departments Need to Increase the Integration of Physiology Into Their Core Curriculum

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses the importance of physiology education....

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Who Benefits From Peer Conversation? Examining Correlations of Clicker Question Correctness and Course Performance

The authors implemented peer instruction in an introductory level conceptual physics course for nonscience majors and found no correlation with course grade. They did notice moderate correlation between answering a conceptual question correctly prior...

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A Case of Reform: The Undergraduate Research Collaboratives

In this report the authors include brief descriptions of five undergraduate research collaboratives and discuss their common components and the variety of implementation strategies. They also examine the impacts of early research on students, faculty...

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Personal Response Systems and Learning: It Is the Pedagogy That Matters, Not the Technology

This study investigated whether using clickers in conjunction with lecture tutorials yields higher student learning gains than using only lecture tutorials. The results suggest that the clickers do not lead to additional learning gains....

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Case Study: Resistance Is Futile ... or Is it? The Immunity System and HIV Infection

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the case study uses an interrupted progressive disclosure format, during whic...