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Michael E. Robbins; Nathan D. Davis; Eric W. Burkholder – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
There is currently little physics education literature examining thinking and learning in graduate education and even less literature characterizing problem solving among physics graduate students despite this being an essential professional skill for physicists. Given reports of discrepancies between physics problem solving in the undergraduate…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Graduate Students, Physics, Science Instruction
Rebecca Watts Hull; Brian K. Hammer; Jennifer Kraft Leavey – American Biology Teacher, 2025
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a comprehensive call to action for a better world adopted by the UN member states in 2015. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a framework for incorporating the urgency and practicality of the SDGs into curricula of all kinds. We infused a junior-level undergraduate cell…
Descriptors: Biology, Sustainable Development, Goal Orientation, Science Instruction
Jessica D. Young; Lisa Dawood; Scott E. Lewis – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
Student motivation within a STEM course is dependent on their perceived relevance and utility of the topics learned. This paper presents an Informative Utility Value Intervention (IUVI) designed to promote perceptions of utility. The IUVI was designed as a series of assignments for general chemistry students in large lecture courses, but the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Relevance (Education), Assignments, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Olena Nesteruk – Family Science Review, 2024
This paper describes an innovative approach to teaching about family development over the life course through an application project and assesses its effectiveness in student learning. The integration of genograms and expanded family development theory (FDT) into one project aims to provide an engaging and useful structure for the assignment and…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Generational Differences, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Structure
Shannon L. W. Accettone; Cassandra DeFrancesco; Cole Alexander King; Monique K. Lariviere – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Laboratory skills assignments were developed as a novel approach to providing students with the opportunity to engage in hands-on laboratory skills development outside of the lab during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, the assignments were implemented within a second-year forensic chemistry course of 48 students and redesigned and modified to be…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Assignments, Science Laboratories, Skill Development
Mikeas Silva de Lima; Lilian Pozzer; Salete Linhares Queiroz – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
In the context of scholarly and scientific discourse, students often have to deal with graphic-visual modes of communication, which requires their ability to comprehend and utilize inscriptions, that is, scientific visual representations, to convey information effectively--what we call graphical literacy. Despite its pivotal role for training…
Descriptors: Graphs, Knowledge Level, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Julie E. Minbiole – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Instructors from K-16 incorporate current events and contemporary media in their courses in a variety of ways and with different educational objectives. Here, I present strategies for selecting and framing current events in high school and undergraduate biology courses and an example assignment, all explicitly tied to science practice skills and…
Descriptors: Current Events, Learner Engagement, Science Instruction, High School Students
Viki Kumar Prasad; Tamara K. Freeman – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
In recent years, pedagogical advancements have allowed the adoption of more engaging forms of course assignments to help students better understand and communicate chemistry. In this context, informational graphics, known as infographics, emerge as an effective teaching aid in educational settings and in disseminating scientific content to the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Assignments
Diane K. Angell; Sharon Lane-Getaz; Taylor Okonek; Stephanie Smith – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Preparing for exams in introductory biology classrooms is a complex metacognitive task. Focusing on lower achieving students (those with entering ACT scores below the median at our institution), we compared the effect of two different assignments distributed ahead of exams by dividing classes in half to receive either terms to define or open-ended…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Metacognition, Introductory Courses, Biology
Kathy Nomme; Rhea Storlund; Christine Goedhart; Silvia Mazabel; Chin Sun; Bernardita Germano – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
We investigated the impact of an assignment wrapper in promoting self-regulation of learning in a series of written assignments for a First-Year Biology laboratory. Students completed a planning survey prior to submitting an Introduction assignment. Upon receipt of the graded Introduction, students completed an assignment wrapper, two more written…
Descriptors: Self Management, Learning Strategies, Biology, Science Instruction
Holly Ryan; Daniel Abramov; Samantha Acker; Sydney Elkins – Thresholds in Education, 2025
This paper explores the complexities of co-authorship involving generative AI in academic contexts, focusing on an honors English class where students engaged with AI tools like ChatGPT. It critiques the boundaries of authorship as defined by COPE, which argues AI cannot be an author due to its lack of accountability. The study explores the…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Writing (Composition), Honors Curriculum, English Instruction
Zeng, Liang; Zeng, Guang – Physics Teacher, 2021
The National Academy of Science has published studies showing strong scientific evidence that global warming is caused by human consumption of fossil fuels, yet recent surveys have shown young adults in the U.S. are disengaged or disagree with this fact. Accordingly, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)…
Descriptors: Climate, Writing Assignments, Physics, Science Instruction
Irene K. Guttilla Reed; Michelle L. Kraczkowski; Steven J. Pearlman – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Critical thinking is essential in academia and the workforce. Although writing can be used as a pedagogical tool for fostering deeper subject matter understanding, increased retention, and critical thinking, relatively few science courses are writing based. This writing-based introductory science course provided an opportunity for students to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Molecular Biology
Turk, Judith K.; Young, Rebecca A. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2022
Estimation of soil texture is an essential skill for soil scientists, but a difficult skill to learn. We compared two approaches for teaching soil texture: the traditional flowchart approach and an experimental self-calibration method. Three lab sections of an introductory soil science class were assigned to learn by the flowchart method (n = 60)…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses
Sandra L. Pettit; Clifford L. Henderson – Chemical Engineering Education, 2023
Development of team skills is vital to becoming a successful and productive engineer. To prepare students for successful team-based work, they need a basic understanding of the organizational psychology underpinning teamwork and an introduction to tools and techniques to develop and sustain team effectiveness. The goal of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Assignments