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Development of a Laboratory Course in Nonmajors General Biology for Distance Education
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For distance-education students, the requirement for a laboratory course can present a significant hurdle to completing degree requirements. To better serve these nontraditional students, the authors developed a…
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McLean v. Arkansas (1982) and Beyond: Implications for Biology Professors
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To assess current trends of evolution instruction in high schools of the mid-South, the authors had Arkansas high school biology teachers and students enrolled in a freshman-level nonmajors biology course at a midsize…
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A Comparison of Two Forms of Assessment in an Introductory Biology Laboratory Course
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Because of enrollment increases, many institutions have advocated the replacement of free-response exams with forced-choice exams as a time-saving strategy. The study in this article evaluated the replacement of free-…
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Merging Science and Society: An Issues-Based Approach to Nonmajors Biology
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The effectiveness of an issues-based approach to nonmajors biology was investigated. The integration of online critical-thinking exercises and in-class discussions of science-related issues did not improve exam scores.…
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Climate Change From Pole to Pole: Biology Investigations (e-Book)
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Climate Change From Pole to Pole: Biology Investigations offers timely, relevant, biology-based case studies and background information on how to teach the science of climate change. The six painstakingly researched and…
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Do College Introductory Biology Courses Increase Student Ecological Literacy?
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The research described in this article used a pre-/postsurvey design to assess first-year science majors' attitudes and perceptions of the environment and their ecological knowledge.
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Research and Teaching: Student Learning in a Project-Based Molecular Biology Course
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Inquiry-based learning was used to enhance an undergraduate molecular biology course. The goal was to use a long-term, in-class project in a studio class setting to enable students to acquire the knowledge and…
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Case Study: Biology in the News: Beginning and Ending the Semester With the Big Picture
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This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this article, the author describes how she uses current biology-…