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Webster, Audrey; Metcalf, Alana; Kelly, Lauren; Bisesi, Ave; Marnik-Said, Miranda; Colbeck, Carol; Marine, Robert; Vinces, Marcelo; Campbell, Amy; Allen, Taylor – Advances in Physiology Education, 2022
Recommendations for enhancing scientific literacy, inclusivity, and the ecosystem for innovation call for transitioning from teacher-centered to learner-centered science classrooms, particularly at the introductory undergraduate level. Yet little is documented about the challenges that undergraduates perceive in such classrooms and the students'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Wesley A. Stroud – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
This paper highlights the design process and implementation for an "all majors" undergraduate course that allows students a chance to reconnect with the natural world. During this course students explore a wide range of biological and physical science based topics that seek to highlight human intervention and our impacts on the planet.…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Honors Curriculum, Majors (Students)
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Salgado-Chavarría, David; Palacios-Alquisira, Joaquín – Science Education International, 2021
A problem-based learning (PBL) methodology was implemented to a project, whose main objectives were to discuss and apply the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry to the study of poly(vinyl alcohol)'s cross-linking reaction with dicarboxylic acids. The five participating students were oriented to be responsible for their own learning and the…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles
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Silverstein, Todd P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
A highly instructive, wide-ranging laboratory project in which students study the effects of various parameters on the enzymatic activity of alcohol dehydrogenase has been adapted for the upper-division biochemistry and physical biochemistry laboratory. Our two main goals were to provide enhanced data analysis, featuring nonlinear regression, and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Student Projects, Kinetics, Biochemistry
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Kramer, Barbara; Walston, Timothy – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2019
An integrative introduction to the sciences and an introduction to scientific writing can provide a strong foundation for broadly trained STEM majors to explore the interconnectedness of STEM disciplines and prepare them for scientific research. These goals have been accomplished through a sequence of two first-year courses, STEM 101: Integrative…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Thinking Skills, Scientific Principles
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Hati, Sanchita; Bhattacharyya, Sudeep – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
A project-based biophysical chemistry laboratory course, which is offered to the biochemistry and molecular biology majors in their senior year, is described. In this course, the classroom study of the structure-function of biomolecules is integrated with the discovery-guided laboratory study of these molecules using computer modeling and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Active Learning, Student Projects, Laboratory Training
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Moss, Elizabeth; Cervato, Cinzia; Genschel, Ulrike; Ihrig, Lori; Ogilvie, Craig A. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
This study examines the effects of an extended authentic research experience on students' understanding of the nature of science (NOS) and self-efficacy toward science. The curriculum of an introductory physical geology lab was transformed to include a six-week, student-driven research project focused on local groundwater and surface water issues.…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Scientific Principles, Gender Differences, Self Efficacy
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Liu, Huaping; Xiao, Wei; Zhao, Hongyan; Sun, Fuchun – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2014
System stability is a basic concept in courses on dynamic system analysis and control for undergraduate students with computer science backgrounds. Typically, this was taught using a simple simulation example of an inverted pendulum. Unfortunately, many difficult issues arise in the learning and understanding of the concepts of stability,…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Systems Analysis, Simulation
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Çibik, Ayse Sert – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The aim of this study is to compare the change of pre-service science teachers' views about the nature of scientific knowledge through Project-Based History and Nature of Science training and Conventional Method. The sample of the study consists of two groups of 3rd grade undergraduate students attending teacher preparation program of science…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Concepts, Quasiexperimental Design
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Kober, Martin; Koch, Ben; Bleicher, Marcus – European Journal of Physics, 2007
This paper reports on a student summer project performed in 2006 at the University of Frankfurt. It is addressed to undergraduate students familiar with the basic principles of relativistic quantum mechanics and general relativity. The aim of the project was to study the Dirac equation in curved spacetime. To obtain the general relativistic Dirac…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Quantum Mechanics, Nuclear Physics, College Science