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Chen, Audrey; Phillips, Kimberley A.; Schaefer, Jennifer E.; Sonner, Patrick M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Core concepts provide a framework for organizing facts and understanding in neuroscience higher education curricula. Core concepts are overarching principles that identify patterns in neuroscience processes and phenomena and can be used as a foundational scaffold for neuroscience knowledge. The need for community-derived core concepts is pressing,…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Foundations of Education, Higher Education, Concept Mapping
Rogayan, Danilo V. – Online Submission, 2019
Graduates' retrospective program evaluations can provide relevant and reliable feedback on an institutions' performance in delivering quality instruction and services to its students. This descriptive survey research ascertains graduates' evaluations of science education program areas, including curriculum adequacy and relevance. Study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, College Science, Science Education
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Symons, Sarah L.; Colgoni, Andrew; Harvey, Chad T. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
We describe interim results of an ongoing longitudinal pedagogical study investigating the efficacy of the Honours Integrated Science Program (iSci). We describe the pedagogical methods we use to prompt research skill development in a model from instructor-dependence to independent original research. We also describe a tool we use to help students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Skills, Honors Curriculum, College Science
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Oswald, W. Wyatt; Ritchie, Aarika; Murray, Amy Vashlishan; Honea, Jon – Journal of General Education, 2016
Many arts-focused colleges and universities in the United States offer their undergraduate students coursework in science. To better understand the delivery of science education at this type of institution, this article surveys the science programs of forty-one arts-oriented schools. The findings suggest that most science programs are located in…
Descriptors: Science Education, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Undergraduate Study
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Karaarslan, Güliz; Teksöz, Gaye – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
In order to educate science teachers for a sustainable future, recent discussions are going on related to collaboration between science education and education for sustainable development (ESD). Still, ESD has been in a development stage and needs to be improved in terms of developing teacher competencies. Therefore, in this study we focused on…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Science Teachers, Sustainable Development, Sustainability
Inverness Research, 2008
Inverness Research studied the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Seminars on Science program for eight years, from its inception in 1998 to 2006. In 2008, Inverness Research conducted additional studies of the AMNH's new online course, "Evolution". This paper presents teacher survey ratings for "Evolution", along with…
Descriptors: Evolution, Suburban Schools, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)