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Point of View: Teach Both Sides on Global Warming
This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue the author encourages teac...
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The Use of Mastery Learning With Competency-Based Grading in an Organic Chemistry Course
Mastery learning is an instructional method based on the idea that students learn best if they fully understand one concept before moving to the next ...
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Strategies for the Introduction of Neuroscience for Underrepresented University Students
The University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez hosted a series of academic and applied neuroscience activities as part of a Brain Awareness Week (BAW). The st...
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Using Google Earth to Teach the Magnitude of Deep Time
Most timeline analogies of geologic and evolutionary time are flawed, causing an understanding of relative time with little comprehension of absolute ...
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Hot Under the Collar: Weighing the Dangers of a Weight-Loss Drug
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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Instructor Gender and Student Confidence in the Sciences: A Need for More Role Models?
This article examines the extent to which college-level instructor gender affects the confidence of males and females in their scientific abilities....
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Battling Ecophobia: Instilling Activism in Nonscience Majors When Teaching Environmental Issues
This article describes an approach to teaching about environmental issues that helps instill a sense of agency in the young learner. Students identify...
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The Brooklyn Opportunities in Science and Careers (BOSC) program aims to increase student participation in physics, environmental studies, geology, an...
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McLean v. Arkansas (1982) and Beyond: Implications for Biology Professors
To assess current trends of evolution instruction in high schools of the mid-South, the authors had Arkansas high school biology teachers and students...
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A Comparison of Two Forms of Assessment in an Introductory Biology Laboratory Course
Because of enrollment increases, many institutions have advocated the replacement of free-response exams with forced-choice exams as a time-saving str...
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A Novel Instrument for Assessing Students' Critical Thinking Abilities
In this article the authors describe the Assessment of Critical Thinking Ability survey and its preliminary application to assess the critical thinkin...
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Research and Teaching: Incorporating Active Learning Techniques Into a Genetics Class
We revised a sophomore-level genetics class to more actively engage the students in their learning. The students worked in groups on quizzes using the...
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First-Year Students Benefit From Reading Primary Research Articles
Primary research articles discuss aspects of scientific inquiry that are important in understanding the nature of science. Yet, most introductory scie...