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This article discusses whether the education community shares a collective understanding about how students should be evaluated. ...

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Effective Strategies for Engaging Students in Large-Lecture, Nonmajors Science Courses

This article reports on the impacts of changing an introductory environmental science class to move away from standard lecture delivery to increase st...

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Research and Teaching: Meaningful Learning in a First-Year Chemistry Laboratory Course: Differences Across Classical, Discovery, and Instrumental Experiments

To investigate students' perceptions of learning through three categories of experiments—classical, discovery, and instrumental—six students were ...

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Research and Teaching: Assessment of a Constructivist-Motivated Mentoring Program to Enhance the Teaching Skills of Atmospheric Science Graduate Students

This article describes a collaborative mentoring program in which graduate students from a university atmospheric science research department team-tau...

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University Students' Acceptance of Biological Theories—Is Evolution Really Different?

This study looked at student acceptance of important biological theories and explored the relationships between their acceptance of scientific theorie...

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Connectedness by Design: The Teaching Laboratories in St. Olaf College's Regents Hall of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

This study assessed the impact of science teaching laboratories designed with visual connections to spaces outside the laboratory, either to interior ...

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Case Study: What Killed Leah Miller: Abuse or Natural Causes?

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. I...

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Point of View: A Stranger in a Strange Land

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue the author discusses how t...