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Van Lacum, Edwin B.; Ossevoort, Miriam A.; Goedhart, Martin J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2014
The aim of this study is to evaluate a teaching strategy designed to teach first-year undergraduate life sciences students at a research university how to learn to read authentic research articles. Our approach--based on the work done in the field of genre analysis and argumentation theory--means that we teach students to read research articles by…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Reading Motivation, Journal Articles
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Davies, Shan; Murphy, Fiona; Jordan, Sue – Nurse Education Today, 2000
In a survey of 294 nursing students and 57 faculty, students equally valued lectures, tutorials, and labs for learning biosciences. Faculty differed from students regarding the value of methods and time allocated to the biosciences. Adjustments in the allocation of curriculum topics and a tutorial system to augment lectures and labs were…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Course Content, Higher Education, Nursing Education
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McGrath, Diane, Ed. – School Science and Mathematics, 1989
Three computer programs for the Apple II family are reviewed: (1) "Super Vocab Machine"--vocabulary self-tutorial; (2) "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures: A Matter of Mystery"--database for the elements; and (3) "That's Life: Human Body Exploration"--information about the human body. (MVL)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemical Nomenclature, Chemistry