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Hendra Y. Agustian – Science & Education, 2025
Wicked problems have been characterised by their high epistemological and axiological complexities. These are the kinds of problems that may invade our classrooms because many of them concern many stakeholders, including our students. Several approaches have been developed to address wicked problems in various contexts. However, little is known…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Social Problems, World Problems, Universities
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Gonzalo L. González-Del Pino; Megan E. Rokop – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
In a typical undergraduate biology curriculum, students do not dive into research until they first wade through large amounts of content. Biology courses in the first few years of the college curriculum tend to be lecture-based and exam-based courses. As a result, science students are mainly exposed to content knowledge--not the skills scientists…
Descriptors: Cytology, Microbiology, Undergraduate Students, Biology
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Bur, Scott K.; Pomerantz, William C. K.; Bade, Morgan L.; Gee, Clifford T. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Curriculum-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been shown to increase student retention in STEM fields and are starting to become more widely adopted in chemistry curricula. Here we describe a 10-week CURE that is suitable for a second-semester organic chemistry laboratory course. Students synthesize small molecules and use…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, College Science, Undergraduate Students, Scientific Research
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Doucette, Danny; Daane, Abigail R.; Flynn, Angela; Gosling, Chris; Hsi, Dana; Mathis, Clausell; Morrison, Andrew; Park, Shinae; Rifkin, Moses; Tabora, Johan – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
There is a wide variety of ways for instructors to seek to improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect (DEIR) in chemistry through their instruction. One way is to talk with students explicitly about equity and injustice in science. We propose a curricular framework for teaching about equity as a way to improve DEIR in science classes at the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Equal Education, Diversity
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Rebecca S. Friesen; Adriana D. Cimetta – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Attracting and retaining students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics majors, particularly those who are underrepresented, is a national concern. While undergraduate research experiences have been shown to increase retention and engagement, inequities in access exacerbate disparities. Understanding what hinders or facilitates the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Study, Disproportionate Representation, Student Experience
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Cornelis J. C. Vertegaal; Cecilia Martinez; Ramiro Serra; Prem Sundaramoorthy; Mark J. Bentum – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: This study identifies the types of interaction that contribute to student learning with student-led tutorials (SLTs). The quality of these interactions include peer discussion, student tutor presentation, joint reasoning, and constructive feedback. Background: The introduction of SLTs in an advanced electromagnetics bachelor course…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction
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Karen E. Singer-Freeman; Kristi Verbeke – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
We share a case study on our use of three reflective questions to demonstrate ways in which simple questions can be coded to reveal rich evidence of impact and engagement. At the end of a three-hour inclusive teaching practices workshop for 23 faculty and administrators from a single science department, 22 participants completed an anonymous…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Science Departments, Teacher Workshops
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Kiernan, Daniel A.; Lotter, Christine – American Biology Teacher, 2019
Science departments in higher education have been adjusting their curricula to include more inquiry-based instruction, and research on inquiry-based teaching at the collegiate level has been increasing. However, more data are needed regarding the effectiveness of inquiry-based pedagogy in improving students' conceptual understanding and attitudes…
Descriptors: College Students, Nontraditional Students, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Traxler, Adrienne L.; Suda, Tyme; Brewe, Eric; Commeford, Kelley – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
This study uses positional analysis to describe the student interaction networks in four research-based introductory physics curricula. Positional analysis is a technique for simplifying the structure of a network into blocks of actors whose connections are more similar to each other than to the rest of the network. This method describes social…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Active Learning, Interaction
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Mouton, Marnel – Journal of Biological Education, 2020
First-year undergraduate curricula and their delivery should assist students in the transition from previous learning experiences to learning in higher education. However, the so-called articulation gap or discontinuity between secondary and higher education has been identified as a key structural curriculum problem for first-year success in South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Projects, Active Learning, Science Curriculum
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Pols, C. F. J.; Dekkers, P. J. J. M.; de Vries, M. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Physics inquiry can be interpreted as the construction of a cogent argument in which students apply inquiry knowledge and knowledge of physics to the systematic collection of relevant, valid, and reliable data, creating optimal scientific support for a conclusion that answers the research question. In learning how to devise, conduct and evaluate a…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Active Learning, Inquiry, Physics
Cottone, Amanda Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Participation in the science workforce is low, and this can be partially attributed to low retention rates of undergraduate students who initially declare a science major. Low retention rates are further exacerbated for under-represented minority (URM) and first-generation (FG) college students pursuing science, and the existence of achievement…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Study, College Science, Biology
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Huang, Tien-Chi; Lin, Weijane; Yueh, Hsiu-Ping – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
Environmental education is intended to increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental issues and enhance individuals' problem-solving and decision-making skills by tackling problems in the real world. "Maker education," on the contrary, mostly relies on "problem-based" and "project-based learning"…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Problem Solving
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Segedinac, Mirjana D.; Rodic, Dušica D.; Roncevic, Tamara N.; Horvat, Saša; Adamov, Jasna – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2020
The first PhD thesis in the field of Chemistry Education at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, was defended in 1992. This can be regarded as the symbolic dawn of Chemistry Education as a scientific discipline in this region. After the official breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, research that had started in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Chemistry, Science Education
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Knippels, Marie-Christine P. J.; van Harskamp, Michiel – School Science Review, 2018
We present a sequence of professional development sessions to support science teachers in designing socio-scientific inquiry-based learning (SSIBL) lessons to foster democratic citizenship. We focus on seven stages for enacting SSIBL: (1) introducing a dilemma; (2) initial opinion-forming; (3) creating a 'need to know'; (4) inquiry; (5) dialogue;…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Science Teachers, Science and Society, Inquiry
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