JoinSociety for College Science Teachers: Putting Inquiry Teaching to the Test: Enhancing Learning in College Botany
Can you imagine a class where students cover the content with each other rather than simply listening to the professor’s lecture? Can you envision students developing their own laboratory investigations and quizzing each other weekly to check for understanding? Well, that’s pretty much how the major science organizations across the nation are recommending school and college science classes be restructured. There is strong evidence that having students do real science is one of the most effective ways of moving them from simple beliefs in dogma to the more skeptical, empirically derived models of science (George and Malcom 2005).