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The increase in classroom technology has resulted in the use of clickers and other audience response systems (ARS) for simultaneous reporting of choices in the team-based learning (TBL) classroom. A variety of…
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The authors evaluated student perceptions of an inquiry-based, karaoke video exercise in six university classes ranging from first year to graduate level. Students created a 3–4 minute karaoke video on a topic relevant…
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Deliberative democracy, a consensus model of decision making, has been used in real-life policy making involving controversial, science-related issues to increase citizen participation and engagement. Here, we describe…
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Nonscience majors often rely on general internet searches to locate science information. This practice can lead to misconceptions because the returned search information can be unreliable. In this article the authors…
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A postexam review activity was implemented in an introductory biology course to help students learn from their mistakes and strengthen reasoning and self-regulatory skills. The goal of this study was to design and test…
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Performing inquiry should enhance the intellectual development of students on numerous levels. We evaluate whether inquiry-based activities elicit inquiry behaviors by comparing these activities with traditional review…
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Eight Earth science graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) participated in a semester-long seminar designed to facilitate change in their practice. The seminar used lesson-study methodology to facilitate discussion of GTAs…
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This article describes a teacher preparation program at a large Midwestern university that was modified to include a new science content course aimed at the need for successfully preparing elementary teachers to teach…
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This study looks at the results of implementing education research-based curricular reform that took place over seven years.
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The goal of the study described was to understand the process and degree to which an undergraduate science research program for rising college freshmen achieved its stated objectives to integrate participants into a…
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This article describes two cohort programs that were used to support students from groups underrepresented in STEM fields at Carleton College. These programs were designed to support three aspects of student development…
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Project 3D IMAGINE or 3D Image Arrays to Graphically Implement New Education is a pilot study that researches the effectiveness of incorporating 3D tactile images, which are critical for learning science, technology,…
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The authors describe a study in which an honors biology instructor implemented clickers as a mechanism for students to complete in-class quizzes.
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The study described in this article aimed to quantify knowledge and misconceptions of evolutionary processes among upper level undergraduate students and analyze how knowledge and misconceptions changed throughout a…
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This article reports a comparison of results from a survey of participants in the University of Arizona Undergraduate Biology Research Program with those of a comparable group drawn from the college of medicine who did…