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Research and Teaching: Using Action Research to Improve Teaching and Student Learning in College
An action research approach was used to examine revisions made to the design and delivery of a freshman zoology laboratory section. Because action res...
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Editorial: A Community Challenge -- Career Support for Postdocs
Those long in the tooth will remember when a typical postdoc appointment was usually a relatively short hiatus between the completion of a dissertatio...
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Teaching with Java Applets: Using Online Demonstrations in Large Classes of Nonscience Majors
Instructors can use interactive Java applets to present science in a concrete and meaningful manner to nonscience majors. This article shows how apple...
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Teaching Critical-Thinking Skills Using Course Content Material: A Reversal of Roles
The strategy of getting students to understand science content using critical thinking has been widely used by instructors for decades. The methodolog...
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Genes and Race in the Classroom: Science in a Social Context
This article describes a course for nonscience majors that uses the issue of race in humans to stimulate interest in genetics and other sciences. Stud...
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The Living Earth: Inviting Students into the World of Scientific Research through Seismology
In an introductory geoscience course, various elements of seismology were combined -- such as seismographs, seismograms, simulation of earthquake proc...