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Graduate teaching assistants play an important role in undergraduate programs in the authors' Earth Science Department. A course on teaching and learning was developed to train graduate students in student-centered…
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News media reports of scientific discoveries are often oversimplified, lacking nuance and context. As a result, citizens need both science literacy and information literacy skills to both decode the science content in a…
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A critical thinking assessment was used to compare biology students in a nonmajors course who participated in either a multisemester research program or in a one-semester lab study.
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The authors compare student learning and perception data from astronomy, physics, and geology courses taught in a traditional classroom with individual desks to the same classes taught in a large auditorium.
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This study describes the development and implementation of an iterative diagnostic and intervention routine designed to elicit and quantitatively describe aspects of student metacognition, affect, and study habits in a…
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Through this case study, the authors offer insight into the value of using qualitative methods in course assessment to science instructors in higher education.
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Collaborative learning in small groups is commonly implemented as a part of student-centered curricula. In large-enrollment courses, details of the interactions among students as a consequence of working in…
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This articles highlights the teaching beliefs and classroom practices of a sample of science faculty with educational specialties (SFES) to promote the importance of understanding these attributes in faculty embedded…
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This article reports on an investigation into the correlations between students’ understandings of introductory astronomy concepts and the correctness and coherency of their written responses to targeted Lecture-…
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This article describes the DEEPER framework for scaffolding collaborative problem solving that was designed to address the student outcomes outlined by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
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This article describes a a comparison of student performance in a series of two introductory biology classes and one third-year class shows that students with graduate teaching assistant and undergraduate teaching…
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When students are regimented by lab manuals that dictate what to think, how to think, and when to think, lab activities essentially lose impact for learning. A constructivist approach (as opposed to the constructivist…
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This article compares student performance in traditional and active learning classrooms in a large, introductory biology course using the same syllabus, course goals, exams, and instructor.
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In this study four instruments were administered to undergraduate biology students. The study examined the impact of one's acceptance and knowledge of evolution on understanding of Nature of Science among college…
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This paper is based on William Leonard’s “How Do College Students Learn Science?” Chapter 1 in Effective Teaching and Course Management for University and College Science Teachers, edited by E. Siebert, M. Caprio, and C…