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The Toxics Geography Exercise: Students Use Inquiry to Uncover Uses and Limits of Data in Policy Analysis

Students use publicly available data on industrial activities, history of toxic material disposal, basic chemistry, regulatory approaches of federal and state agencies and environmental policy theory to critique and evaluate public policy decisions a...

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Editorial: Leveraging the Circulatory Systems of the Science Faculty: A Practical Guide for Novice Administrators

The Journal of College Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Favorite Demonstration: An Activity to Demonstrate the Genetic Code, Gene Duplication, and Divergence

This activity provides a way for students to practice using the genetic code and, as a result, to realize the redundancy of the genetic code by practicing "reverse translation" and understand why it's physiologically impossible....

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Improving Student Perceptions of Science Through the Use of State-of-the-Art Instrumentation in General Chemistry Laboratory

Access to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy early in the college curriculum was provided to undergraduate students in an effort to improve student perceptions of science. Survey results indicated positive student perceptions after working...

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Case Study: Bewitching Ideas Influence Learning: An Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Teaching Experience

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 describe an interdisciplinary approach to case study teaching tha...

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Student Performances in Various Learning Protocols

A comparison was made between students' overall performance, as measured by overall grade, in different teaching and learning protocols. The data gathered indicate that students' conceptual learning is enhanced by the self-guided inquiry eBook and gr...

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Favorite Demonstration: Learning the BCD-To-Seven-Segment Decoder By Counting Coins

This activity helps instructors to demonstrate a method of converting seven-bit binary numbers to decimal numbers and vice versa....

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Preparing Graduate Students for Teaching: Expected and Unexpected Outcomes From Participation in a GK–12 Classroom Fellowship

The GK–12 program offers graduate students unique teaching opportunities as students are paired with a teacher in a K–12 classroom. This article documents the benefits for teaching fellows in numerous areas, such as communication with various aud...

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An Astronomical Misconceptions Survey

Misconceptions that students bring with them to the introductory science classroom are especially prevalent in astronomy. One way to identify and possibly dispel some of these misconceptions is through using a misconceptions survey. This article repo...