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Changing the Teaching Culture in Introductory STEM Courses at a Large Research University
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The authors describe a major transformation in teaching large introductory courses in the sciences and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, impacting over 17,000 students yearly. The…
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Research and Teaching: Enriching Undergraduate Experiences With Outreach in School STEM Clubs
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The STEM Club Leadership for Undergraduate STEM Education, Recruiting and Success project at a large public research university in the Mountain West presents an outreach model to engage undergraduate STEM majors in…
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Research and Teaching: Reducing Student Resistance to Active Learning: Strategies for Instructors
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In spite of considerable evidence of the effectiveness of active learning and other contemporary teaching methods, barriers to adoption of those methods, such as possible student resistance, continue to exist. This…
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Two-Year Community: Integrating Undergraduate Research at Two-Year Colleges
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Because community colleges contain smaller class sizes, agile course structures, and faculty dedicated to best practice approaches, these institutions are inherently capable of developing more student research platforms…
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Class Research Projects in Ecology Courses: Methods to “Un-can” the Experience
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Research-like experiences range from relatively “canned” labs that are highly controlled by the instructor (such as those described in Lord and Orkwiszewski 2006) to more individually designed projects (e.g., Switzer…
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Inspired by Real Science: Biomedical Engineering for Breast Cancer Research in the Classroom
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Design a tissue-engineered system using an iterative cycle of development to answer an open-ended question.
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Research and Teaching: During POGIL Implementation the Professor Still Makes a Difference
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One common notion is that all classrooms using Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) are the same. Though POGIL has essential components, this research found that students’ conceptual achievement, a classroom…
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Transformative Research-Based Pedagogy Workshops for Chemistry Graduate Students and Postdocs
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This article discusses one-day professional development workshops for graduate students and postdocs. The workshop introduced strong instructional approaches, established the importance of theory, and introduced novel…