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Parmentier, Jean-François – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
In many situations, the change in the conceptual understanding of students is measured using a single question. This is, for instance, the case in peer instruction where students answer twice to the same questions, before and after the discussion phase. Using item response theory and assuming that students proficiencies are normally distributed,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Concept Formation, Peer Teaching, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Morizot, Olivier; Audureau, Eric; Briend, Jean-Yves; Hagel, Gaetan; Boulc'h, Florence – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
In this article, we present two concrete applications of the concept of the human element to chemistry education; starting with a course and experimental project on blue pigment synthesis and concluding with cross-disciplinary lessons and experiments on blue photography. In addition to the description of the content of these courses, we explore…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, College Science, Undergraduate Study
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Chapon, A.; Gibelin, J.; Lopez, O.; Cussol, D.; Durand, D.; Desrues, Ph.; de Préaumont, H. Franck; Lemière, Y.; Perronnel, J.; Steckmeyer, J. C. – Physics Education, 2015
The Billotron is a device designed and built by the LPC Caen to illustrate the methods with which physicists are able to study the basic structure of matter, in particular the nucleus of the atom.
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Molecular Structure, Physics, Science Experiments
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Bouzidi, Naoual; Gozzi, Christel – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
This project is conducted by students during the second semester of their second year in our educational institution. This project constitutes an initiation into research and allows a broadening of knowledge, a development in autonomy, organization, team work, and initiative. It helps prepare the student-engineer for an internship in industry. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Design, College Science, Scientific Methodology
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Olieric, Vincent; Schreiber, Angelique; Lorber, Bernard; Putz, Joern – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2007
A practical hands-on course encompassing enzyme purification, biochemical characterization, and crystallization that completed the course work of 350 second-year bachelor students enrolled in molecular biology/biochemistry was given at the Universite Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg (France). The experimental part of the practical dealt entirely with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, College Science
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Dahmani, Hassen-Reda; Schneeberger, Patricia; Kramer, IJsbrand M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2009
The number of experimentally derived structures of cellular components is rapidly expanding, and this phenomenon is accompanied by the development of a new semiotic system for teaching. The infographic approach is shifting from a schematic toward a more realistic representation of cellular components. By realistic we mean artist-prepared or…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Cytology, Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions
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Cros, Daniele; And Others – International Journal of Science Education, 1988
Examined the evolution of the knowledge and the notions of students in order to see how after one year of university study their concepts and ideas of scientific theory in chemistry had progressed. Reports that sometimes the students' conceptions are modified in the wrong way. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries