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Direct linkLydia Horne; Amanda Manzanares; Nicholas Babin; Emily A. Royse; Lee Arakawa; Eunice Blavascunas; Lisa Doner; Daniel Druckenbrod; Ennea Fairchild; Meghann Jarchow; Barry R. Muchnick; Prajjwal Panday; Denielle Perry; Rebecca Thomas; Anne Toomey; Brian H. Tucker; Camille Washington-Ottombre; Shirley Vincent; Steven W. Anderson; Chelsie Romulo – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of coupled human and natural systems. The interdisciplinary nature of IES programs does not lend itself to traditional…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Higher Education
Kristin Kellar; Paula Heron – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Dual-process theories of reasoning suggest that humans reason using two processes often referred to as process 1 (heuristic) and process 2 (analytic). When presented with a situation requiring any sort of reasoning or decision making, process 1 automatically engages and generates an initial mental model to address the situation. Process 2 may or…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Thinking Skills, Concept Formation
R. Jabbour; R. K. Cook – Natural Sciences Education, 2025
Museums, long considered institutions of learning, offer a platform for the integration of art with science. In our work shared here, an introductory college-level agriculture science class collaborated with a university art museum. Our goal was to use art objects as a launching point for dialogue within our class, as well as a way that students…
Descriptors: College Students, Agricultural Education, Introductory Courses, Arts Centers
Nanette J. Tomicek; Patrick Cafferty; Janet Casagrand; Elizabeth Co; Meg Flemming; Jenny McFarland; Valerie O'Loughlin; Derek Scott; Dee U. Silverthorn – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Learning outcomes are an essential element in curriculum development because they describe what students should be able to do by the end of a course or program and they provide a roadmap for designing assessments. This article describes the development of competency-based learning outcomes for a one-semester undergraduate introductory human…
Descriptors: Physiology, Scientific Concepts, Vocabulary, Inclusion
Galbraith, John Morrison; Shaik, Sason; Danovich, David; Brai¨da, Benoît; Wu, Wei; Hiberty, Philippe; Cooper, David L.; Karadakov, Peter B.; Dunning, Thom H., Jr. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Introductory chemistry textbooks often present valence bond (VB) theory as useful, but incorrect and inferior to molecular orbital (MO) theory, citing the electronic structure of O[subscript 2] and electron delocalization as evidence. Even texts that initially present the two theories on equal footing use language that biases students toward the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Introductory Courses, Textbook Content
Alexis Buzzell; Timothy J. Atherton; Ramón Barthelemy – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection in Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research.] The modern physics course is a crucial gateway for physics majors as it provides an introduction to concepts beyond the scope of the K-12 education. This study collected 167 modern physics syllabi from 127 U.S. research-intensive…
Descriptors: Physics, Course Content, Science Instruction, Required Courses
Galili, Igal – Science & Education, 2016
Physics textbooks often present items of disciplinary knowledge in a sequential order of topics of the theory under instruction. Such presentation is usually univocal, that is, isolated from alternative claims and contributions regarding the subject matter in the pertinent scientific discourse. We argue that comparing and contrasting the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
Bennett, Steven Carl – ProQuest LLC, 2017
We used an "approach to learning" theoretical framework to explicate the ways students engage in scientific modeling. Approach to learning theory suggests that when students approach learning deeply, they link science concepts with prior knowledge and experiences. Conversely, when students engage in a surface approach to learning, they…
Descriptors: Models, Learning Theories, Scientific Concepts, Prior Learning
Ene, Emanuela; Ackerson, Bruce J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
We describe the construction, validation, and testing of a concept inventory for an "Introduction to Physics of Semiconductors" course offered by the department of physics to undergraduate engineering students. By design, this inventory addresses both content knowledge and the ability to interpret content via different cognitive…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Small Classes, College Science
Brogt, Erik; Draeger, John D. – Journal of General Education, 2015
We discuss a model of academic rigor and apply this to a general education introductory astronomy course. We argue that even without central tenets of professional astronomy-the use of mathematics--the course can still be considered academically rigorous when expectations, goals, assessments, and curriculum are properly aligned.
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Nonmajors, Academic Standards, Difficulty Level
Download full textLe Doux, Joseph M.; Waller, Alisha A. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2016
This paper describes the problem-solving studio (PSS) learning environment. PSS was designed to teach students how to solve difficult analytical engineering problems without resorting to rote memorization of algorithms, while at the same time developing their deep conceptual understanding of the course topics. There are several key features of…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Apprenticeships, Engineering Education, Teaching Methods
Goess, Brian C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
A two-semester second-year introductory organic chemistry sequence featuring one semester of accelerated organic chemistry followed by one semester of bioorganic chemistry is described. Assessment data collected over a six-year period reveal that such a course sequence can facilitate student mastery of fundamental organic chemistry in the first…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Organic Chemistry, Curriculum Development, Sequential Approach
Wampler, Wendi N. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Introductory undergraduate physics courses aim to help students develop the skills and strategies necessary to solve complex, real world problems, but many students not only leave these courses with serious gaps in their conceptual understanding, but also maintain a novice-like approach to solving problems. "Matter and Interactions"…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Problem Solving, Physics, Epistemology
Venkataraman, Bhawani – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2011
The chemical origin of life on earth has been used as a conceptual framework in an introductory, undergraduate chemistry course. The course explores the sequence of events through which life is believed to have emerged, from atoms to molecules to macromolecular systems, and uses this framework to teach basic chemical concepts. The results of this…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Chemistry, Science Instruction, College Science
Hall, Kristi Lyn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this dissertation, I perform and compare three studies of introductory biology students' classroom expectations--what students expect to be the nature of the knowledge that they are learning, what they think they should be (or are) doing in order to learn, and what they think they should be (or are) doing in order to be successful. Previous…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Educational Change, Concept Formation
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