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Adapting Meaningful Learning Strategies for an Introductory Laboratory Course: Using Thin-Layer Chromatography to Monitor Reaction Progress
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Wu, Nancy; Hall, Ariana O.; Phadke, Sameer; Zurcher, Danielle M.; Wallace, Rachel L.; Castañeda, Carol Ann; McNeil, Anne J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Introductory-level laboratory courses provide students with hands-on experience using the discipline's tools and theories. These courses often rely on recipe-based experiments due to the constraints of large enrollments, short lab periods, and the desire to minimize complexity. In addition, covering a breadth of topics can lead to a fragmented…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Laboratory Experiments
Working with Disciplinary Artifacts: An Introductory Writing Studies Course for Writing Majors
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Ostergaard, Lori – Composition Studies, 2015
WRT 329: Introduction to Writing Studies is a course in Oakland University's (OU) Writing and Rhetoric major program that provides students with a survey of composition studies as an academic discipline. It includes an examination of the history, theories, research, curricula, and pedagogies associated with composition studies in the university.…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Writing Instruction, Majors (Students), Course Descriptions
Surviving the Semester during COVID-19: Evolving Concerns, Innovations, and Recommendations
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Perone, Angela K. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
The emergence of COVID-19 created significant disruption for MSW students across the United States. This study uses several data for a case study of MSW student attitudes about COVID-19, online instruction, virtual field placement, and innovations during the emergence of COVID-19 in the United States. Data includes qualitative data from weekly…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
What Makes Us Who We Are? Investigating the Chemistry behind Genetics in an Interdisciplinary Course for Undergraduate Students. Part I
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Johnson, Amy Flanagan; Graves, Chiron W. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2017
This article details the aim, development, and implementation of the Chemistry-Genetics Course Collaborative (CGCC), a cotaught offering of a human genetics course with an honors introductory chemistry course. The CGCC was formed to fully integrate the two courses, along with the associated chemistry lab, to create an interdisciplinary scientific…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Genetics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction
Teaching Inquiry with Linked Classes and Learning Communities
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Piercey, Victor; Cullen, Roxanne – PRIMUS, 2017
In order to improve problem-solving dispositions, a section of an inquiry-based math sequence for first-year business students was linked with a section of our general education English sequence. We describe how the linked classes worked and compare some preliminary results from linked and unlinked sections of the math sequence.
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving
"Red, White, and Black" in the Motor City: Teaching the Early American Survey at a Comprehensive Metro Detroit Community College
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Friedman, Hal M. – History Teacher, 2001
This article is an exploration of how the new early American cultural history can be employed in the first half of the standard American history survey. The author discovered that the New Cultural History can be an outstanding tool by which to introduce a highly culturally diverse student population to the multiracial, multicultural, and…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, United States History, Course Objectives, Museums