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Extant and emerging literature on undergraduate research experiences (UREs) focuses on the identification of their benefits to student participants. This study offers descriptions, drawn from an analysis of students'…
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Point of View: Research Only Matters if You Do Research That Matters
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If we want research to matter we must make the questions asked and issues pursued be about real things, whose answers really matter to the teachers and professors, to the students, and to others who need to know. Merely…
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Research and Teaching: Growing a Learning Assistant Program: Using Perceptions to Inform Improvement
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The authors describe a study used to gather learning assistant and faculty member perceptions to understand if programmatic goals of learning assistant programs are being met.
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Research and Teaching: Micro-Agency: Measuring the Initiation of Agency Within Science Classes
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This retrospective study investigated the effectiveness of an active approach to assessment (two-stage cooperative testing) as a means of improving student retention of key physiologic concepts.
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Research and Teaching: Using Action Research to Improve Teaching and Student Learning in College
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An action research approach was used to examine revisions made to the design and delivery of a freshman zoology laboratory section. Because action research involves iterative cycles of planning, acting, observing, and…
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This study took place in a biotechnology laboratory course series that provided students with authentic research experiences. We documented student identities after the experience and explored how these identities…
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NSTA is breaking new ground with this month’s issue of Science Scope. For the first time, an NSTA journal is focused on action research and the role teachers play as classroom researchers. This issue chronicles the…
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The Home Zone: Research Rolypolies
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April is a good time to go outdoors and examine living things. Pill bugs are good to study because they are easy to find and care for and do not bite. You might know these organisms by one of their nicknames—potato bugs…
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Editorial: Research and Teaching Column
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The JCST Research and Teaching column will feature sound research on curriculum, pedagogy, and student learning at the college level. Topics of interest include all fields of science: chemistry, biology, geology,…
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