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William D. Riihiluoma; Zeynep Topdemir; John R. Thompson – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection in Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research.] Instructors teaching upper-division quantum mechanics have had two primary options when it comes to textbook choice and thus curriculum sequence: starting with wave functions and the Schrödinger equation, referred to as "wave…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Physics, Science Curriculum
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Patrick Wilson; Nevaeh Duarte; Tia Harris; Tori Sayers; Melissa Weinrich – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Climate change has the potential to push humans across the limits at which we can exist. Chemistry is essential in understanding the complexities of climate change, as many of the processes involve chemical relationships. Textbooks influence the development of course curricula and support instructors' decision making, which can impact student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Selection
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Dax Ovid; Ashley Rose Acosta-Parra; Arsema Alemayehu; Jacob Francisco Gomez; Dathan Tran; Brie Tripp – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
To advance ongoing efforts to diversify the healthcare field and promote inclusion in physiology education, the present study investigates the potential for an evidence-based intervention, Scientist Spotlight assignments, to highlight counterstereotypical representations of scientists in the context of majors and nonmajors physiology courses.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Scientists, Student Attitudes