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Direct linkGarza, Nicholas F.; Finkenstaedt-Quinn, Solaire A.; Shultz, Ginger V.; Zimmerman, Steven C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Organic chemistry courses enroll students from many majors with diverse interests. Although instructors may strive to appeal to these interests by relating course content to real life, it is challenging to intrinsically appeal to students at the personal level, particularly in high enrollment courses like organic chemistry. When students identify…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Course Content, Teaching Methods
Download full textRosenzweig, Emily Q.; Harackiewicz, Judith M.; Priniski, Stacy J.; Hecht, Cameron A.; Canning, Elizabeth A.; Tibbetts, Yoi; Hyde, Janet S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Utility-value interventions, in which students are asked to make connections between course material and their lives, are useful for improving students' academic outcomes in science courses. These interventions are thought to be successful in part because the intervention activities afford students autonomy while they complete them, but no…
Descriptors: Intervention, Correlation, Student Attitudes, Decision Making
Schuhart, Arthur – Inquiry, 2014
This article introduces a new course in the Virginia Community College System English Curriculum, "English 114: Scientific Writing." The article briefly reviews the concept of "science rhetoric," then discusses the intended audience and purpose of the course, and explains the basic goals of the course in relation to the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Science Instruction, Writing Instruction
Bobich, Joseph A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
This active learning pedagogical technique aims to improve students' learning in a two-semester, upper-division biochemistry course sequence in which the vast majority of students enrolled will continue on to medical or graduate schools. Instead of lecturing, the Instructor moves to the side of the room, thereby becoming "the guide on the side".…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Active Learning, Biochemistry, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Polizzotto, Kristin; Ortiz, Mary T. – American Biology Teacher, 2008
Very often, some type of writing assignment is required in college entry-level Human Anatomy and Physiology courses. This assignment can be anything from an essay to a research paper on the literature, focusing on a faculty-approved topic of interest to the student. As educators who teach Human Anatomy and Physiology at an urban community college,…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Course Content, Physiology, Anatomy
Capps, Joan; Schueler, Paul – 1991
At Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) in New Jersey, an honors philosophy course was developed which taught mathematics and science concepts independent of computational skill. The course required that students complete a weekly writing assignment designed as a continuous refinement of logical reasoning development. This refinement was…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
