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Chris Della Vedova; Gareth Denyer; Maurizio Costabile – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2025
Innovative approaches to teaching genetics are essential for improving student engagement and comprehension in this challenging field. Laboratory-based instruction enhances engagement with the subject while fostering the development of practical competencies and deepening comprehension of theoretical concepts. However, constraints on time and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Genetics, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments
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Shulamit Kapon; Maayan Schvartzer – Cognition and Instruction, 2024
We present the theoretical argument that the use of mathematics in physics can be productively conceptualized as using a language and that learning to make sense of physics equations and appropriating them into novel scientific inquiry can be understood as a process of learning to read fluently with a high level of reading comprehension and to…
Descriptors: Physics, Equations (Mathematics), High School Students, Scientific Research
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Matta, Corrado – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
In this paper, I discuss and critically assess how the relationship between philosophy of science and qualitative methods is presented and discussed in research on qualitative research methods education (QRME) and qualitative methods textbooks. I argue that both typically convey the idea that philosophy of science guides or influences the use and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Correlation, Research Training, Scientific Research
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Hernández-Peña, Yurley; Maldonado, Erika Alejandra; Cardenas, Jesus Urbina – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Human development is a dimension that concretizes evidence adjusted to social demands from a framework of formation of individuals focused on constructing knowledge from different perspectives. In this sense, the formation of the university research student, the motivation for the exercise of science and innovation, and the pedagogical practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Guidelines
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Tian, Jing; Wang, Yiheng; Ren, Chang; Lei, Yingzhe – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2022
Undergraduate research experience is the process where undergraduates contribute to the development of a subject field through their inquiry-based learning (IBL). IBL is a student-centered learning strategy. Students work as professional scientists do, through inquiry. This article presents approaches to IBL and practices of an instructor from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Inquiry
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Eva N. Nyutu; Víctor Carmona-Galindo; Maris C. Polanco – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2023
In this paper, we describe the transition of all five course-sections of General Biology Laboratory I from "cookbook" surveys of taxonomic domains and kingdoms to course-based undergraduate research experiences that champion inquiry-based learning in "real world" environments. We achieved this by scaling-up lessons from a…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments, Teaching Methods
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Ababneh, Rawan A.; Alzoubi, Karem H.; Ababneh, Mera A. – Education Sciences, 2020
Scientific integrity, proper research conduct and avoiding research misconduct including plagiarism, fabrication and falsification, are all essential to all disciplines. Since research experience is a recommended skill to gain during undergraduate education, undergraduate students need to be aware of research misconduct in order to avoid it. This…
Descriptors: Pharmaceutical Education, Undergraduate Students, Plagiarism, Ethics
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Cooper, A. C.; Southard, K. M.; Osness, J. B.; Bolger, M. S. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Limited access to undergraduate research experiences for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics students has led to creation of classroom-based opportunities for students to participate in authentic science. Revising laboratory courses to engage students in the practices of science has been shown to have many benefits for students.…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Intention, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Burmeister, Alita R.; Bauer, Melanie; Graham, Mark J. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2023
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are tools used to introduce students to authentic participation in science. Several specific CUREs have been shown to benefit students' interest and retention in the biological sciences. Nevertheless, CUREs vary greatly in terms of their context, methodology, and degree of research…
Descriptors: Classification, Instructional Design, Equal Education, Animal Behavior
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Speer, James Hardy; Sheets, Virgil; Kruger, Tina M.; Aldrich, Stephen Peter; McCreary, Nicholas – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess environmental concern at a Midwest university, analyze trends in concern over time and determine the effect of the development of a campus sustainability office. Design/methodology/approach: A multi-question survey was administered through peer-to-peer recruitment from an undergraduate environmental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, Sustainability, Undergraduate Students
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Erin C. Yang; Robby Divine; Christine S. Kang; Sidney Chan; Elijah Arenas; Zoe Subol; Peter Tinker; Hayden Manninen; Alicia Feichtenbiner; Talal Mustafa; Julia Hallowell; Isiac Orr; Hugh Haddox; Brian Koepnick; Jacob O'Connor; Ian C. Haydon; Karla-Luise Herpoldt; Kandise Van Wormer; Celine Abell; David Baker; Alena Khmelinskaia; Neil P. King – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Undergraduate research experiences can improve student success in graduate education and STEM careers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduate researchers at our institution and many others lost their work-study research positions due to interruption of in-person research activities. This imposed a financial burden on the students and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Perkins, Matthew Phillip; Hagevik, Rita Anne – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2011
Both of the national efforts to reform education (AAAS, 1993; NRC, 1996) promoted professional development experiences that engage teachers in authentic scientific research. This qualitative multiple case study used legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) as a way to examine the process by which teachers became a part of the laboratory community…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Scientific Research, Educational Change, Faculty Development