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Direct linkBriley L. Lewis; Abygail R. Waggoner; Emma Clarke; Alison L. Crisp; Mark Dodici; Graham M. Doskoch; Michael M. Foley; Ryan Golant; Skylar Grayson; Sahil Hegde; Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas; Charles J. Law; R. R. Lefever; Ishan Mishra; Mark Popinchalk; Sabina Sagynbayeva; Samantha L. Wong; Wei Yan; Kaitlyn L. Ingraham Dixie; K. Supriya – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, yet reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in major courses. We seek to determine the efficacy of a reading assignment designed to improve undergraduate astronomy (or related) majors' perceived…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Astronomy
Download full textPickett, Sarah B.; Nielson, Catie; Marshall, Hydea; Tanner, Kimberly D.; Coley, John D. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2022
Students possess informal, intuitive ways of reasoning about the world, including biological phenomena. Although useful in some cases, intuitive reasoning can also lead to the development of scientifically inaccurate ideas that conflict with central concepts taught in formal biology education settings, including evolution. Using antibiotic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Assignments, Drug Therapy, Microbiology
Kovarik, Michelle L.; Robinson, Jill K. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
A collaborative learning module for teaching protein mass spectrometry has been developed to overcome common obstacles to incorporating the modern topic of biological mass spectrometry into the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Protein mass spectrometry data is provided to eliminate the need for expensive instrumentation, and an instructor's…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Spectroscopy, College Science, Science Instruction
Bhavsar, Victoria Mundy – College Teaching, 2020
This paper describes a reading assignment that resulted in students completing 80-90% of the assigned reading in a content-heavy science course taught in a flipped format. Students reported almost unanimously that the assignment was valuable in helping them learn the material, and a majority reported that other professors should adopt a similar…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Video Technology, Homework, Reading Habits
Körhasan, Nilüfer Didis – Science Education International, 2021
Peer instruction (PI) involves interaction between students and provides opportunities for students to reveal their own ideas, articulate their thinking, and facilitate construction of their knowledge with social interaction. Since the classroom environment of PI provides a rich information for students to discuss scientific phenomena, this…
Descriptors: Correlation, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Schemata (Cognition)
Bassett, Kaleb; Olbricht, Gayla R.; Shannon, Katie B. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
The flipped classroom has the potential to improve student performance. Because flipping involves both preclass preparation and problem solving in the classroom, the means by which increased learning occurs and whether the method of delivering content matters is of interest. In a partially flipped cell biology course, students were assigned online…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Homework, Video Technology, Reading Assignments
Grace, Emily; Griffis, Rachel B. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2018
This article is a small empirical study based on two assignments, both involving reading and writing, in two physics courses at a Christian college. Students read theological, philosophical, and scientific arguments and produced research papers. By performing interdisciplinary intellectual work, students considered the compatibility of science and…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Christianity, College Science, Science Instruction
McDonnell, Lisa; Barker, Megan K.; Wieman, Carl – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
In this experiment, students in a large undergraduate biology course were first exposed to the concepts without new technical vocabulary ("jargon") in a pre-class reading assignment. Their learning of the concepts and jargon was compared with that of an equivalent group of students in another section of the same course, whose pre-class…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Jargon, Undergraduate Students, Biology
