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Laura A. Meadows; Max Bernard; Kaela Clabaugh-Howell; Jessica Duke; Lani Irvin; Lydia Mayo; Emily A. Holt – College Teaching, 2024
Learner-centered and inclusive and equitable teaching practices aim to promote better learning outcomes for all students. Course syllabi can provide a window into these practices. We adapted an existing rubric to measure inclusiveness and equity-mindedness of syllabi and used an established rubric to assess their learner-centeredness. We then…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Biology, Introductory Courses, Science Instruction
Alexis Buzzell; Timothy J. Atherton; Ramón Barthelemy – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Quantum mechanics is an integral course for physics students. An understanding of quantum concepts is imperative for enrollment in physics graduate programs, participating in research within physics fields, and employment with companies developing quantum technologies. This study analyzes 188 U.S. research-intensive institutions' course catalogs…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Physics
Andrea A. Perla; Sara Hollar; Katy Muzikar; Jane M. Liu – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
The use of primary literature can be an effective way to expose students to the scientific research process. At the same time, primary literature can be intimidating to many students, particularly those with limited exposure to science research. The CREATE (consider, read, elucidate hypotheses, analyze and interpret the data, and think of the next…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Scientific Research, Self Esteem
Peter A. C. McPherson; Ben M. Johnston – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Of the three main subdivisions in chemistry, physical chemistry often presents a challenge when delivered to those not majoring in chemistry or its cognate disciplines. This is, at least in part, due to the seemingly unrelatedness of the subject to students' anticipated career. We describe the redesign of a nested physical chemistry course for…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Anesthesiology, Difficulty Level
Martha Higginbotham – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this descriptive case study was to examine the impact of the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) on student engagement in the CHEM 100 course at Rider University. The action research study was conducted during the fall semester of 2022 with seven participants. The QFT protocol was taught separately from classroom instruction.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Learner Engagement, Chemistry
Heather MacDonald; Veronic Bezaire – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Information literacy skills are an important part of research skills for undergraduate science students. This case study presents a novel approach to developing these types of research skills. By deconstructing the research process into separate steps, explicitly defining, and practicing the skills involved, students can progressively develop…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Research Training, Undergraduate Students, Physiology
Funkenbusch, LiLu Tian; Rivera-Jiménez, Sindia – Chemical Engineering Education, 2023
The continuous distillation experiment in the Unit Operations Lab was moved to a virtual platform. Students used old data and equipment specifications to simulate the column in Aspen HYSYS. Students experimented without the limitations of existing equipment. For example, they studied the number of trays in the virtual column, something that is…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
Gaiser, J. Christopher; Roberts, Michael F. – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2022
We describe a novel, university-level, introductory biology course that uses evolution as a narrative framework. Our course conveys the content in an introductory biology course by telling the story of the evolution of life on Earth. We begin with early Earth environments in which biological molecules and processes evolved and led to the first…
Descriptors: Biology, Evolution, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
James, Nicole M. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Course grades are commonly used as an evaluation metric within institutions and as part of education research. However, using grades to compare across course sections may implicitly assume that grades are awarded similarly and consistently. This article details how different sections of the same course offered differing amounts of extra credit and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Course Descriptions, Grades (Scholastic)
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
Dutta, Shuchismita; Jiang, Jennifer; Ghosh, Sutapa; Patel, Shriya; Bhikadiya, Charmi; Lowe, Robert; Voigt, Maria; Goodsell, David; Zardecki, Christine; Burley, Stephen K. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
Communication and collaboration are key science competencies that support sharing of scientific knowledge with experts and non-experts alike. On the one hand, they facilitate interdisciplinary conversations between students, educators, and researchers, while on the other they improve public awareness, enable informed choices, and impact policy…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Molecular Biology, Diabetes
Alexandra Werth; Benjamin Pollard; Robert Hobbs; H. J. Lewandowski – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Understanding measurement uncertainty is crucial in experimental physics, as it enables accurate and reliable measurements, facilitates comparison between measurements, and aids in designing experiments. Consequently, measurement uncertainty has emerged as a critical learning goal for many introductory physics labs. Here, we explore the impact of…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills, Measurement
Bahng, E. J.; Hauptman, John Michael – Physics Teacher, 2022
Surprisingly, newspapers contain wide-ranging physics topics available for narrative-style teaching in the classroom. Topics of newspaper articles we have covered over the years include physicists (obituaries of Hans Bethe, etc.), art or music that involve physics (color and standing waves), forensics (auto accidents and art forgeries), archeology…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Newspapers, Story Telling
Trenova, Arailym; Seitzhanov, Azimkhan; Kosobaeva, Bakdolot; Imangaliyeva, Bazarkhan – Higher Education for the Future, 2023
The relevance of the research in this article is conditioned upon the problems of introducing environment-oriented education in the field of chemical discipline for the development of an important component of the information part of this science among students, based on its application in the framework of restoration and conservation of ecology.…
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, Science Instruction, Decision Making
Reed, B. Cameron – Physics Teacher, 2020
For several years, I taught a general education course on the Manhattan Project for students majoring in the arts and humanities who needed a physical science credit as a condition of their graduation requirements. As might be imagined, the challenge in teaching this course was to find a balance between quantitative and qualitative content. A…
Descriptors: Graphs, Science Instruction, Physics, Weapons