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Direct linkTed M. Clark; Rebecca Ricciardo; Daniel A. Turner – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Active learning has often been reported to improve student outcomes in STEM courses. However, there are barriers to its implementation, and it is challenging to include this approach in large classrooms with fixed seating. This investigation explores the development of a novel approach in which the class contact time was reallocated for a general…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Class Size
Gelinas, Katharine A.; Ovid, Dax; Amaya-Mejia, Wilmer; Ayala, Rafael; Baek, Hanna E.; Gasmin, Eric; Hissen, Karina; Johnson, Amanda; Kossa, Emily; Levesque, Lauren; Lutz, Kurt R.; Lyons, Amichai S.; Mata, Alan F.; Mitchell, Casey G.; Paggeot, Lisa; Pastor-Infantas, Maria Jos̩; Patel, Cheryl; Prestol-Casillas, Susan; Chen, Kevin Xu; Tanner, Kimberly D. РCBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Instructor Talk--noncontent and nonlogistical language that is focused on shaping the classroom learning environment--is a recently defined variable that may play an important role in how undergraduates experience courses. Previous research characterized Instructor Talk used by faculty teaching in biology lecture classrooms. However, graduate…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Biology
Bram H. Frohock; Cade A. Macallister; Maria T. Gallardo-Williams – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
A teaching team composed of a faculty member (lecture) and a graduate teaching assistant (lab) endeavored to engage students enrolled in several sections of the same organic chemistry course through the use of social media. Students were encouraged to follow both instructors on Twitter and were asked to share aspects of the class using the social…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants
Download full textEdiger, Tracy L. – HAPS Educator, 2022
Delivering Anatomy & Physiology (A&P) labs online became necessary in the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For four semesters (Summer 2020 through Summer 2021), our A&P1 and A&P2 labs were instructed in a virtual format. Each lab session included a one-hour synchronous session led by teaching assistants followed by…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Physiology, Science Instruction, Distance Education
Joshua Rutberg – ProQuest LLC, 2022
It has been well-establishing in the field of educational research that traditional educational methods such as passive lectures and labs where students follow pre-designed procedures to verify information already told to them are not effective for promoting meaningful and lasting conceptual understanding. Alongside this knowledge have come a…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Laboratory Experiments
Ruder, Suzanne M.; Stanford, Courtney – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
Several active-learning pedagogies involve groups of students working together to construct their own understanding of course content. In these classrooms, the instructor serves as a facilitator of learning, by interacting with every group, engaging students in discussions, answering questions, and providing formative feedback. This type of…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, College Science
Karim, Nafis Imtiaz – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This thesis explores impact of evidence-based active-engagement courses (EBAE) on student achievement and gender gap in introductory physics. The first study is about the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of the physics teaching assistants (TAs) at identifying introductory students' difficulties using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, Evidence Based Practice, Science Achievement
Robert M. Talbot; Laurel M. Hartley; Katrina Marzetta; Bryan S. Wee – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2015
Large-enrollment undergraduate science courses are often seen as "gatekeepers" and tend to support less-than-ideal pedagogical approaches. Student satisfaction with teaching and learning and gains in student conceptual understanding in these courses is often limited at best. At University of Colorado Denver, the Learning Assistant (LA)…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Class Size, Teaching Assistants
Skjold, Brandy Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Attempts to bring authentic science into the K-16 classroom have led to the use of sociocultural theories of learning, particularly apprenticeship, to frame science education research. Science educators have brought apprenticeship to science classrooms and have brought students to research laboratories in order to gauge its benefits. The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Apprenticeships, Scientists, Chemistry
Dotger, Sharon – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2010
Eight Earth science graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) participated in a semester-long seminar designed to facilitate change in their practice. The seminar used lesson-study methodology to facilitate discussion of GTAs' beliefs about teaching while planning a research lesson for implementation in their laboratory. This article reports the results…
Descriptors: Seminars, Earth Science, Laboratories, Teaching Assistants
Ross, Pauline; Tronson, Deidre; Ritchie, Raymond J. – Journal of Biological Education, 2006
Biology students in their first year at university have difficulty understanding the abstract concepts of photosynthesis. The traditional didactic lecture followed by practical exercises that show various macroscopic aspects of photosynthesis often do not help the students visualise or understand the submicroscopic (molecular-level) reactions that…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Textbooks, Learning Modalities, Learning Strategies
