JoinJournal of College Science Teaching—March/April 2022
March/April 2022
Volume 51, Number 4
This issue of JCST continues to focus on virtual learning, offering features such as:
A Perfect Storm: How Differences in Privilege and Power Can Lead to Subtle but Potent Inequities in STEM Education
Building a New Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Partnership Through Virtual Connections
Perspectives on Teaching from Early-Career Scientists: Graduate Students as Teachers
Exemplar Teaching Practices in STEM Courses in U.S. Universities
Online Engagement in an Undergraduate Cell Biology Course
Journal Article
This point of view article uses a social science lens in an attempt to understand the differing environments of the two institutions (private and public) where I taught chemistry for 3 decades. I hypothesize that differences in social class—along w...
By Anonymous
Journal Article
Building a New Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Partnership Through Virtual Connections
This article presents a synopsis of an interdisciplinary literacy-science, cross-country, fully remote service-learning (S-L) project prompted by and executed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article shares discussions, analyses, a...
By Lauren E. Burrow, Tonya D. Jeffery, Brian S. Wuertz, and Shelby J. Gull
Journal Article
Perspectives on Teaching from Early-Career Scientists
Many graduate students spend a part of their time teaching at the university level. While there is an abundance of advice from older, more established faculty, the perspective and teaching styles of graduate students are lacking in the literature. Af...
By Suchinta Arif and Melanie Duc Bo Massey
Journal Article
Exemplar Teaching Practices in STEM Courses in U.S. Universities
Based on the largest multi-institutional observational study of undergraduate courses in the United States, this article describes exemplar teaching practices in engineering courses as an interdisciplinary science field. The College Educational Quali...
By Corbin M. Campbell
Journal Article
Online Engagement in an Undergraduate Cell Biology Course
Online engagement, or the use of online supplementary instruction and assessment, in high-structure courses is gaining popularity as a useful tool to facilitate instruction, assignments, and examinations. High-structure courses, which include regular...
By Eric Tarapore, Justin Franklin Shaffer, and Scott Atwood
Journal Article
The Student Participation Observation Tool (SPOT) is a web-based classroom observation protocol developed for higher education STEM courses and based on research on evidence-based practices. The low-inference and objective nature of the SPOT and visu...
By Cara H. Theisen, Cassandra A. Paul, and Katrina Roseler
Journal Article
This article looks at the effects of environmental factors such as classification, residence location, and employment status of Hispanic students who unsuccessfully completed first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) at a Hispanic-Serving or emerging...
By Blain Mamiya, Cynthia B. Powell, G. Robert Shelton, Anton Dubrovskiy, Adrian Villalta-Cerdas, Susan Broadway, Rebecca Weber, and Diana Mason
Journal Article
This study investigated the stability and persistence of prospective elementary teachers’ conceptual understanding of average speed. A questionnaire containing two questions about average speed was administered to the prospective teachers prior to ...
By Karthigeyan Subramaniam, Christopher S. Long, Pamela Esprivalo Harrell, and Nazia Khan
Journal Article
In this study, we analyzed the literature on teaching or learning on a topic in Earth science, environmental science, or climate change between 1995 and 2017. We investigated the length of the intervention, intervention setting and instructional leve...
By Gillian M. Puttick, Brian Drayton, and Christina Silva