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Jinxin Guo – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
Our organic chemistry course enrolls students from the medicine major. As future healthcare professionals, medical students should also take on the responsibility of publicizing scientific knowledge related to human health. Therefore, starting from 2020, we have designed an assignment that tasked students with writing a popular science essay for…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Writing Assignments, Medical Education, Medical Students
Tekkumru-Kisa, Miray; Stein, Mary Kay; Doyle, Walter – Educational Researcher, 2020
Informed by decades of research and standards-based policies, there has been a growing demand for high-quality teaching and learning in mathematics and science classrooms. Achieving these ambitious goals will not be easy; students' opportunities for learning as shaped by the tasks they are assigned will matter the most. The purpose of this article…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Task Analysis
Alkawareek, Mahmoud Y.; Akkelah, Boshra M.; Mansour, Sara M.; Amro, Hamza M.; Abulateefeh, Samer R.; Alkilany, Alaadin M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
A simple and reliable didactic laboratory has been developed to illustrate fundamental concepts of hydrophilicity, hydrophobicity, wetting, and spreading phenomena for undergraduate students. The described laboratory includes preparation of surfactant solutions at different concentrations and applying droplets of these solutions on a hydrophobic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Education, Chemistry
Akcay, Hakan; Kapici, Hasan Ozgur; Yager, Robert E. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The purpose of this article is to provide a brief literature review and useful suggestions for using advertisements as tools for organizing and accomplishing science teaching and learning. Newspapers and advertisements can be used as a context for developing scientific literacy and for promoting the development of critical thinking skills, through…
Descriptors: Newspapers, Advertising, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Wiegant, Fred; Boonstra, Johannes; Peeters, Anton; Scager, Karin – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2012
Cooperative learning and team-based learning have been widely recognized as beneficial strategies to improve all levels of education, including higher education. Just forming groups, however, does not automatically lead to better learning and motivation; cooperation flourishes only under appropriate conditions (Fink; Gillies; Parmelee et al.).…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Honors Curriculum, Science Education
Brownell, Sara E.; Price, Jordan V.; Steinman, Lawrence – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
Most scientists agree that comprehension of primary scientific papers and communication of scientific concepts are two of the most important skills that we can teach, but few undergraduate biology courses make these explicit course goals. We designed an undergraduate neuroimmunology course that uses a writing-intensive format. Using a mixture of…
Descriptors: Biology, Audiences, Communication Skills, Scientific Concepts
Chong, Mike R.; Goff, Lori; Dej, Kimberly – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2012
We implemented two different approaches of using peer review to support undergraduate essay assignments for students taking large second-year courses in life sciences and biology: a web-based online peer review (OPR) approach and a more traditional face-to-face peer review (FPR) approach that was conducted in tutorial settings. The essays…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Essays, Writing Assignments, Student Evaluation
Wilkes, Janelle; Gurney, Lisa J. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2009
This paper examines where students prefer to find information, and then matches survey results with students' assignments. Surveys showed that half the surveyed students used library databases (e.g. ProQuest) as their first preference to locate scientific information; however, of these students, one third did not have any journal articles cited in…
Descriptors: Assignments, Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Databases
Lauer, Thomas; Hendrix, Jon – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2008
In this study, we assessed small and large group discussions and repeated writing assignments with the intent to objectively measure the values of these learning pedagogies. We crafted a model where students researched a question, formulated a written answer, discussed it with their peers, and revised their answers. Then, we did it with repetition…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Student Evaluation, Data Analysis, Writing Skills