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Sprecher, Susan – College Teaching, 2023
Many departments in colleges and universities require a capstone course that involves the students conducting a research project. This author has had over 20 years of experience teaching such a capstone course and describes a flexible research method for student research projects -- the vignette study (an experiment embedded in a survey). She also…
Descriptors: Vignettes, Teaching Methods, Capstone Experiences, Supplementary Education
Tommaso Francesco Piccinno; Andrea Basso; Fabrizio Bracco – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
A comparative study on the performance and on the perception of two groups of students involved in a peer review activity on the writing of chemical laboratory reports is reported. The first group participated in a compulsory activity, while the second one participated on a voluntary basis. This study was aimed at determining whether the overall…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Learning Activities, Comparative Analysis, Student Attitudes
Stefanie DeVito; Anne McDuell; Amanda McCollom; Jennifer Sykes – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Science communication skills are increasingly emphasized as an important skill for undergraduate STEM students. In our science communication podcast project, students use the fundamentals of science communication to research a topic related to their inquiry-based lab project. Groups then create a podcast that presents the current science to a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills
Rana, Azeem; Jillani, Shehzada Muhammad Sajid; Alhooshani, Khalid – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Water analysis is an excellent interdisciplinary topic for project-based learning. An undergraduate course was designed to engage the senior undergraduate chemistry students in a real-life experience. In this course, students developed methodologies based on published American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) methods for the measurement of…
Descriptors: Water Quality, Student Projects, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students
Scarborough, David L. A.; Hall, Rod D.; Vanderkruk, Kellie E. N. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Inquiry- and context-based learning (IBL and CBL, respectively) can lead to improved student outcomes, including increased motivation and interest, the development of critical thinking skills, and improved assessment results. This study outlines the application of IBL research projects in third-year university Environmental Chemistry and…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Student Research
Olivia Hawco; Erynne Sutanto; Haider Alsafar; Eshal Dave; Aditi Bansal; Ayuni Ratnayake; Emily Bell; Aarthi Ashok – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2024
Immersive research opportunities allow students to take ownership of their learning, explore based on curiosity, and engage in the scientific process while developing confidence and skills. However, research positions for biology undergraduates are limited, and conventional teaching labs are often restricted to pre-designed experiments without…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Student Research
Jing-Ping Liu; Pian Yan; Jinxi Lan; Rongying Yang; Wenqin Wang; Yulin Chen; Jingmin Wang; Yong Zhao; Jing Shen – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
The Clemmensen reduction is a common example of a reaction demonstrating the deoxygenation of carbonyl groups, which is a topic that has been widely studied in the field of organic chemistry. The use of trimethylchlorosilane, as a substitute for concentrated hydrochloric acid, allows for the reduction of carbonyl groups. The Clemmensen reduction…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, Science Laboratories, Undergraduate Study
Stump, Emily M.; Dew, Matthew; Jeon, Sophia; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Prior research has indicated that students in the undergraduate physics lab divide work inequitably with regard to gender. In this work, we further probed women's experiences in lab group work, focusing on women who take on managerial and leadership roles in the lab. We interviewed and surveyed women enrolled in a sophomore-level project-based lab…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Physics, Science Instruction
Ashley R. Gouger; Jaime E. Mirowsky – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Traditional laboratory courses involve students following detailed weekly experimental procedures, culminating in either a laboratory report or handout at the end of each experiment. While this setup teaches basic laboratory skills, it usually does not encourage students to think critically or independently. Therefore, many laboratory instructors…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Water Quality, Laboratory Equipment
Carlos J. Landaverde-Alvarado – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
We redesigned our undergraduate laboratories to create a structured sequence that continuously improves the learning experience of students. We utilized a PBL and PjBL approach in which students are progressively introduced to ill-structured open-ended problems, the development of projects, and the creation of research products. We dynamically…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Problem Based Learning, Undergraduate Students
Hills, Melissa; Harcombe, Kimberley; Bernstein, Nina – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2020
Anticipated learning outcomes (LOs) were defined and used for the backward design of a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE). These LOs reflect the inquiry-based nature of CUREs and capture key knowledge and skills inherent to scientific practice and essential in research. The LOs were used to plan a formative and summative…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, College Science, Science Instruction
Neuman, Annette W.; Harmon, Brenda B. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
An integrated lab-lecture project, known as the mini research project, was developed for a medicinal chemistry course for nonscience majors. In the lecture component of this project, students choose a plant essential oil with documented biological activity and prepare a literature review describing the importance, history, and current use of the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Chemistry, Nonmajors
Hoehn, Jessica R.; Fox, Michael F. J.; Werth, Alexandra; Borish, Victoria; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The rapid transition to remote teaching in the spring of 2020 posed particular challenges for laboratory courses, which often involve students working hands-on with equipment in collaborative environments. Replicating in-person experiments was especially challenging for advanced lab courses that utilize specialized apparatus, which could not be…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Science Laboratories, Physics, Science Instruction
Divya, Damodaran; Raj, Kovummal Govind – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
A practical approach for synthesizing functional material from waste material is described. The work was carried out by chemistry undergraduate students as a group project. The concepts used mainly in inorganic quantitative approaches were applied to transform an iron-containing material to magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. The magnetic…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Wastes, Undergraduate Students
Cooper, Katelyn M.; Blattman, Joseph N.; Hendrix, Taija; Brownell, Sara E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been shown to lead to multiple student benefits, but much is unknown about how CUREs lead to specific student outcomes. In this study, we examined the extent to which students making "broadly relevant novel discoveries" impacted student project ownership by comparing the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Ownership, Student Experience