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This article describes an academic-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates program targeted at underrepresented students within the University of Hawaii system, shows how it is aligned with best practices for…
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This study explores students' self-perceptions across science subjects by gender and underrepresented minority group membership.
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The many and diverse demands on faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) are such that any research endeavors undertaken must be efficient and beneficial to both students and faculty. Sustaining faculty…
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This article examines the students' mixed perceptions of the use of active learning techniques in undergraduate science lectures.
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Introducing the software package “ClimProb” to their University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, the authors created a more exciting and interesting classroom environment by encouraging students to learn through critical…
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There is a continuing need for engaging inquiry-based laboratory experiences for advanced high school and undergraduate biology courses. The authors describe a guided-inquiry exercise investigating the pH-dependence of…
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Aligning Undergraduate Science Curricula With Three-Dimensional Learning
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Recent science reform advocates for the inclusion of engineering design to teach science and represents a shift to so-called three-dimensional (3D) learning. This shift often requires science instructors to adapt their…
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A Novel Rubric Format for Providing Feedback on Process Skills to STEM Undergraduate Students
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To improve student process-skill development, a novel type of rubric was developed that goes beyond a typical analytic rubric by providing detailed feedback to students. Process skills are transferable skills such as…
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We propose cross-disciplinary learning as a construct that can guide instruction and assessment in programs that feature sequential learning across multiple science disciplines. Cross-disciplinary learning combines…
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Newspaper Physics for First-Year College Students
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This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in…