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Carol Rentas; Ramapoza O'Dwyer; Rohini Ganjoo; Marcia A. Firmani; Cliff Cymrot; Yousif Barzani; Lisa S. Schwartz – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2025
This study explored the relationships between English language proficiency and performance in online, asynchronous science courses. Each participant completed a Language Background Questionnaire (LBQ) to indicate if English was not their native language, thus categorizing them as an English Language Learner (ELL). The Combined English Language…
Descriptors: English Learners, Electronic Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Assisted Testing
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Bull, Harold; Premkumar, Kalyani; Acharibasam, Jeremiah Wezenamo – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
We found that actively engaging students in our introductory microbiology course was a challenge given our large class sizes and many non-majors taking the course as a program requirement. Therefore, we introduced a novel active learning strategy to our course. Students grouped into teams of three had to create PowerPoint virtual posters on one of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Active Learning, Introductory Courses, Class Size
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Ghosh, Subir – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2019
Pre-nursing students of an introductory Microbiology laboratory class, having learnt typical microbiological techniques during the semester, gained the confidence of conducting an inquiry-based project as part of their lab course work. Students cooperatively performed a microbiological analysis, to evaluate safety of sushi. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Microbiology, Laboratory Experiments, Science Instruction