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A Crash Course in Undergraduate Research

Studies have shown that engaging students in undergraduate research and improving students’ science identities will increase minority students’ ch...

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Increasing Student Interactions With Learning

The authors discuss the use of specific teaching strategies to increase student interactions with student learning objectives....

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Research and Teaching: Connecting Science Content and Science Methods for Preservice Elementary School Teachers

The integration of an undergraduate science content course and science methods course into a single combined course for preservice teachers, including...

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Research and Teaching: Correcting Missed Exam Questions as a Learning Tool in a Physiology Course

Students in a junior- and senior-level Anatomy and Physiology course have the opportunity to correct missed exam questions (“regrade”) and earn u...

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Research and Teaching: The Pairing of a Science Communications and a Language Course to Enrich First-Year English Language Learners’ Writing and Argumentation Skills

This article explores how English language learners’ writing evolved during a first-year seminar in science course aimed at developing students’ a...

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Research and Teaching: Teaching Assistant and Faculty Perceptions of Ongoing, Personalized TA Professional Development: Initial Lessons and Plans for the Future

The authors investigated stakeholders’ perceptions of a novel GTA PD program implemented in The Ohio State University (OSU) Center for Life Sciences...

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Point of View: Academic Librarians as STEM Retention Partners

When you think of collaborating with campus partners on activities to increase the retention of students in science majors, who comes to mind? Other a...

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Case Study: Guidelines for Producing Videos to Accompany Flipped Cases

Three years ago, the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS) was inspired to merge the case study and flipped classroom approaches...

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