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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 student engagement in class. The class was designed around small-group activities, inquiry labs, and s...

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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 interviewed over the course of a semester. Students' descriptions of their learning in the laborator...

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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-taught environmental science classes with professors in a liberal arts college. Qualitative analysis of...

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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 theories and their understanding of the nature of science....

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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 spaces or to the outdoors. Specifically the authors assessed student perceptions of interdisciplinar...

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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. In this month’s issue the authors explore brain and eye anatomy and blood clotting using a case stu...

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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 to get nonmajors to feel like they belong in the world of science....

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How Not to Lose Your Students With Concept Maps

This study examines student perceptions of usefulness of concept mapping across four different physiology courses that varied in their implementation....

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Research and Teaching: Visual Literacy in Biology: A Comparison of Visual Representations in Textbooks and Journal Articles

Using course materials to promote visual literacy skills is an important aspect of undergraduate science education. A comparison study was undertaken to determine the composition of visual representation, specifically representations of data generate...