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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…
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Research and Teaching: Principles, First and Foremost: A Tool for Understanding Biological Processes
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The authors developed an instructional model that focused on using principles first, foremost, and as tools in a wide variety of contexts. We focused especially on changes in matter and energy in processes that involve…
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Undergraduate Research and a Liberal Arts Education: Similar Goals, Similar Solutions
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In this article the authors argue that the goals of a liberal arts education and undergraduate research are remarkably similar and that by incorporating an undergraduate research focus with a liberal arts approach in…
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The Living Earth: Inviting Students into the World of Scientific Research through Seismology
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In an introductory geoscience course, various elements of seismology were combined -- such as seismographs, seismograms, simulation of earthquake processes, and data analysis -- with open-ended problem solving to…
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Research and Teaching: Implementing Inquiry-Based Learning in Teaching Serial Dilutions
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The 5E model of inquiry-based learning was incorporated into a sophomore-level microbiology laboratory to increase student understanding of serial dilutions, a concept that is often difficult for most students to…
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To form and orchestrate intelligent groups is a real challenge for 21st-century education and research. In this paper the authors show how a regional state university was able to facilitate interdisciplinary research…
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Perspectives: Research and Tips to Support Science Education, K–6 (e-book)
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“This book provides research-based justification for the types of inquiry-based science practices we want K–6 teachers to be doing. It answers the questions ‘Why does science need to be in an elementary classroom?’ and…
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