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Taming the Testing/Grading Cycle in Lecture Classes Centered Around Open-Ended Assessment
Testing strategies centered around open-ended assessments are generally thought to result in deeper learning compared with close-ended questioning. However, the time requirements involved in grading open-ended assessments on exams often limit the fea...
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A Twenty-Year Survey of Science Literacy Among College Undergraduates
First results from a 20-year survey of science knowledge and attitudes toward science among undergraduates are presented. Nearly 10,000 students taking astronomy as part of a general education requirement answered a set of questions that overlap a sc...
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Does Active Learning Improve Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Research Methods?
We incorporated an active, collaborative-based research project in our undergraduate Research Methods course for first-year sports medicine majors. Working in small groups, students identified a research question, generated a hypothesis to be tested,...
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A Thoughtful Approach to Instruction: Course Transformation for the Rest of Us
Faculty often wish to devote time and resources to improve a course to be more in line with principles of how people learn but are not sure of the best path to follow. We present our tested approach to research-based course transformation, including ...
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Point of View: When Problems on Exams Are Harder Than the Identical Problems in the Homework
Have you ever had a student approach you after an exam, asserting that the problems on the exam were much harder than the homework you assigned—yet the test problems were taken directly from the homework? (OK, maybe some numbers were changed to pro...
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The development of students’ science reasoning abilities is a goal of science education. Researchers measure science reasoning using a variety of instruments, each with limitations and restrictions. In this study, contrasting instructional modes we...
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Students’ Perceptions of Using Personal Response Systems (“Clickers”) With Case in Science
The authors explored whether a new pedagogy using personal response systems (clickers) along with case study teaching improved students’ perceptions of their understanding of science in large introductory biology classrooms. Twelve faculty from nin...
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Case Study: In Case You Are Interested—Results of a Survey of Case Study Teachers
Case study teaching had a long tradition in law and business before it made the jump to medical school education in the form of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in the 1970s. Today, both the University of Delaware’s Clearinghouse and the University of ...
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Research and Teaching: Online Homework, Help or Hindrance? What Students Think and How They Perform
To improve students’ retention rates in general chemistry, online homework was introduced into our curriculum. Replacing quizzes directly by online homework significantly improved (p < .0005) success rates in second-term general chemistry. Attitudi...
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JCST Sunsets Favorite Demonstration Column
The Journal of College Science Teaching announces that this long-running column will be discontinued. We will continue to publish those articles which have been previously accepted, but we will no longer accept new manuscripts for this column. We wis...