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Inclusion of model building in the learning process promotes a deep understanding of scientific content and concepts. Likewise, higher level questioning requires high cognitive demand and critical reasoning and leads to…
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The integration of an undergraduate science content course and science methods course into a single combined course for preservice teachers, including a precourse field experience, was undertaken at a small, liberal…
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Research and Teaching: A Comparison of Long-Term Knowledge Retention Between Two Teaching Approaches
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The purpose of the research in this article was to test assumptions regarding the effectiveness of reform-based instructional approaches to facilitating knowledge retention in students. We conducted an experimental…
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This study investigates how summative assessments could be used to reduce the achievement gap among at-risk groups of students in an introductory biology course.
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Research and Teaching: Many Paths Toward Discovery: A Module for Teaching How Science Works
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Improving students’ understanding of how science works requires explicit instruction. Here, the authors test the efficacy of a module based on two previously published activities (the Cube Puzzle and the case study…
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With only minimal changes to the course structure, classroom clickers were introduced in introductory chemistry to allow students to regularly compare their perceived abilities with their actual abilities, a measurement…
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In this study, a cohort of final-year undergraduate science students were surveyed to examine whether they fully read journal articles, including whether they seek to understand how the results support the conclusions.…
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Research and Teaching: Teaching Students How to Check Their Work While Solving Problems in Genetics
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An essential component skill of monitoring and reflection during problem solving is work checking, a process used by experts while solving problems to determine if their solution is achieving the goal. The results of…
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Three college faculty taught large general biology classes using case studies and personal response systems (clickers). Each instructor taught the same eight cases in two different sections, except the questions within…
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This article describes how one biology department at a midsize university has integrated assignments into core and elective courses with the objective to enhance the development of science communication skills.
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