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Download full textBut, Juanita C.; Brown, Pamela; Smyth, Davida S. – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2017
This paper describes the structure and activities of READ (Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines), a pilot initiative to improve students' critical reading skills, disciplinary literacy and academic success. READ employs a multimodal design that consists of faculty training in disciplinary literacy instruction and curricular enhancement,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Academic Achievement
Direct linkVandiver, Kathleen M.; Bijur, Jon Markowitz; Epstein, Ari W.; Rosenthal, Beryl; Stidsen, Don – Science Teacher, 2008
The "Learning Lab: The Cell" exhibit was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum and the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS). Specially designed for middle and high school students, the Learning Lab provides museum visitors of all ages with fascinating insights into how our living cells work. The…
Descriptors: Museums, Exhibits, Learning Laboratories, Sciences
Marshall, Pamela A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2007
In our Fundamentals of Genetics lab, students perform a wide variety of labs to reinforce and extend the topics covered in lecture. I developed an active-learning lab to augment the lecture topic of mutagenesis. In this lab exercise, students determine if a compound they bring from home is a mutagen. Students are required to read extensive…
Descriptors: Genetics, Biology, Learning Laboratories, Lecture Method
Samuels, Edward – 1984
A description is provided of Los Angeles Valley College's Life Science Learning Center (LSLC), which provides: (1) a resource center addressed to the individualized learning needs of students served by the Biology Department; (2) a learning environment enabling students to proceed in self-paced, activity-centered, concept-oriented experiences in…
Descriptors: Biology, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Independent Study
Peer reviewedCase, Christine L. – American Biology Teacher, 1980
Explored were the effects on student attitudes of autotutorial laboratory instruction in a lower-division life sciences course designed for nonbiology majors at Skyline College, San Bruno, California. Positive results indicate the effectiveness of this mode of instruction in enhancing attitudes of students towards their learning and this…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Biology, College Science, Educational Research
Coleman, Karen; And Others – Journal of Developmental & Remedial Education, 1979
Contains articles describing: (1) a writing laboratory at Cedar Crest College (Pennsylvania); (2) 12 biology minicourses used at Elizabethtown Community College (Kentucky); (3) the "Self-Persuasion for Study Improvement Project" at East Tennessee State University; and (4) a vocabulary acquisition program used to help University of North Carolina…
Descriptors: Biology, Learning Laboratories, Mathematics Instruction, Minicourses
