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Reading Nature: Engaging Biology Students With Evidence From the Living World (e-book)
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By making room for this book in your curriculum, you’ll have a fresh way to motivate your students to look at the living world and ask not only “Why?” but also “How do we know?” Unique in both its structure and approach…
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Introductory science, math, and engineering courses often have problems related to student engagement, achievement, and course completion. To begin examining these issues in greater depth, this pilot study compared…
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Planimal House: An inquiry-oriented project in which biology students study live organisms
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Planimal House is a six-week-long inquiry oriented project that enables biology students to learn the secrets of nature by doing in-depth research on living creatures. It brings biology and the nature of inquiry alive!
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Inquiry-based instruction is widely promoted to increase both students’ conceptual understanding and their engagement in course content. What this means for day-to-day practices in the classroom is more elusive.…
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Do Open-Book Exams Impede Long-Term Learning in Introductory Biology Courses?
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Students in an introductory biology course who were given open-book exams during the semester earned significantly higher grades on these exams, but significantly lower grades on the closed-book final exam, than…
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Using course materials to promote visual literacy skills is an important aspect of undergraduate science education. A comparison study was undertaken to determine the composition of visual representation, specifically…
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Journal Article |
Analytical writing enhances retention of science learning and is integral to student-centered classrooms. Despite this, scientific writing in undergraduate programs is often presented as a series of sentence-level…
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This article discusses the implementation of student-centered learning in introductory biology classses that is being facilitated by the use of faculty learning communities.
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Journal Article |
This article describes the mobilization and implementation of a community-oriented Interdisciplinary Science Seminar (ISS) that adds interdisciplinary content to traditional introductory science courses without a…
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Research and Teaching: Midterm and First-Exam Grades Predict Final Grades in Biology Courses
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This article describes a study in which the authors analyzed the extent to which two standard forms of feedback, midterm and first-exam grades, correlated with final grades in several biology courses.
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The Effectiveness of a Case Study-Based First-Year Biology Class at a Black Women’s College
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The authors used a case study-based approach in the introductory biology course at Spelman College. The course taught to entering freshmen was divided into three modules—ecology, evolution, and biodiversity, each…