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Research and Teaching: Growing a Learning Assistant Program: Using Perceptions to Inform Improvement
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The authors describe a study used to gather learning assistant and faculty member perceptions to understand if programmatic goals of learning assistant programs are being met.
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Research and Teaching: Micro-Agency: Measuring the Initiation of Agency Within Science Classes
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This retrospective study investigated the effectiveness of an active approach to assessment (two-stage cooperative testing) as a means of improving student retention of key physiologic concepts.
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Research and Teaching: Using Action Research to Improve Teaching and Student Learning in College
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An action research approach was used to examine revisions made to the design and delivery of a freshman zoology laboratory section. Because action research involves iterative cycles of planning, acting, observing, and…
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This study took place in a biotechnology laboratory course series that provided students with authentic research experiences. We documented student identities after the experience and explored how these identities…
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NSTA is breaking new ground with this month’s issue of Science Scope. For the first time, an NSTA journal is focused on action research and the role teachers play as classroom researchers. This issue chronicles the…
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What Research Says: What Have Researchers Been Saying About Science Fairs?
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To help stimulate more interest in science fairs, this article offers a brief history and rationale of the science fair, discusses the research that has been done on science fairs, and describes how science fairs have…
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To encourage students to seek research opportunities with campus faculty, one large university in the Southeast created a course entitled Science for All. A major goal of the course was to encourage students to work…
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Due to other professional commitments, teachers sometimes find it difficult to keep up with the latest developments in science and technology. Through the university Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs,…