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Direct linkSmith, Emily M.; Stein, Martin M.; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Many instructional physics labs are shifting to teach experimentation skills, rather than to demonstrate or confirm canonical physics phenomena. Our previous work found that many students engage in questionable research practices in attempts to confirm the canonical physics phenomena, even when confirmation is explicitly not the goal of the lab.…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Hepworth, Katherine; Ivey, Cesunica E.; Canon, Chelsea; Holmes, Heather A. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2020
An interdisciplinary undergraduate atmospheric science modeling course was cotaught at a midsize public university by three professors from atmospheric science, statistics, and design using a blended learning approach. The in-class portion of the course taught upper-level students numerical weather prediction modeling and statistical evaluation…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Blended Learning, Data
Gjerde, Vegard; Holst, Bodil; Kolstø, Stein Dankert – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Introductory physics is taught to several hundred thousand university students every year. It is seen as especially difficult by many and the failure rate is often high. A relevant question is whether one can increase the success rate among the weaker students? Retrieval practice is an established learning strategy with large benefits. However, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Science, Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Students
Kottmeyer, Alexa M.; Van Meter, Peggy; Cameron, Chelsea – Advances in Physiology Education, 2020
College biology courses commonly use diagrams to convey information. These visual representations are embedded in course materials with the expectation that students can comprehend and learn from them. Educational research, however, suggests that many students have difficulty understanding diagrams and the conventions (e.g., labels, arrows) they…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, College Science
Download full textVemu, Sheela; McDonald, Jeanne Gillespie; León-Valderrama, Nidia Vanessa – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2020
A process for adapting a case study as a high impact practice for undergraduate microbiology classes is described and its use in assessing global awareness as an institutional outcome at the course level. Documenting the student learning of content objectives and retention is addressed. Four student artifacts are assessed with an adaption of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Undergraduate Students, Microbiology, Science Instruction
Beatty, Abby E.; Driessen, Emily P.; Gusler, Taylor; Ewell, Sharday; Grilliot, Amy; Ballen, Cissy J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
While science has profound social impacts, we often teach biology as removed from societally debated issues. Here, we address this gap in biology education through the implementation of novel materials that promote ideological awareness (IA). Using mixed-method analyses, we explore students' perceptions of the relationship between science and…
Descriptors: Ideology, Social Values, Science and Society, College Science
Hung, Hui-Chun; Young, Shelley Shwu-Ching – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
The emergence of open online courses and flipped classrooms has brought new opportunities to unbundle the traditional university. This study aimed to investigate a thermal physics classroom integrated with an open online learning mode to afford various learning strategies for students in Taiwan. Moreover, we examined students' preferred learning…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Flipped Classroom, Physics, Science Instruction
Rabin, Jeffrey M.; Burgasser, Adam; Bussey, Thomas J.; Eggers, John; Lo, Stanley M.; Seethaler, Sherry; Stevens, Laura; Weizman, Haim – International Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Rate of change concepts from calculus are presented and applied rather differently in college mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry classes. This is not simply a matter of pedagogical style but reflects real cultural differences between these disciplines. We describe the efforts of our interdisciplinary collaboration to understand and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Mathematics, College Science
Odom, Sara; Boso, Halle; Bowling, Scott; Brownell, Sara; Cotner, Sehoya; Creech, Catherine; Drake, Abby Grace; Eddy, Sarah; Fagbodun, Sheritta; Hebert, Sadie; James, Avis C.; Just, Jan; St. Juliana, Justin R.; Shuster, Michele; Thompson, Seth K.; Whittington, Richard; Wills, Bill D.; Wilson, Alan E.; Zamudio, Kelly R.; Zhong, Min; Ballen, Cissy J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
To investigate patterns of gender-based performance gaps, we conducted a meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished data collected across 169 undergraduate biology and chemistry courses. While we did not detect an overall gender gap in performance, heterogeneity analyses suggested further analysis was warranted, so we investigated whether…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Science Achievement, College Science
Welleford, Andrew S.; Weaver, Lauren M.; Platt, Kristen M. – HAPS Educator, 2021
Engagement of multiple learning modalities has been shown to promote learning. This study aimed to develop resources for anatomical sciences educators interested in adding additional teaching modalities into their repertoire. Three review sessions were created for the muscle anatomy unit of an undergraduate anatomy and physiology course, each…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Physiology, Learning Modalities, Units of Study
He, Zhiyu; Ding, Shansen; Wang, Luyang; Wang, Guoqing; Liang, Xingguo; Takarada, Tohru; Maeda, Mizuo – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Demonstration of a colorimetric approach for nucleic acid detection represents an attractive educational experiment for chemistry undergraduate students in the time of coronavirus pandemic. Herein, a rapid and vivid detection method that visualizes the presence of a specific DNA sequence is described. The plasmon resonance of gold nanoparticles…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Chemistry, Science Experiments
Ahmed, Mohamed Elsayed; Hasegawa, Shinobu – Education Sciences, 2021
The increasing use of online virtual laboratories (OVLs) in educational institutions as a recent educational technology application necessitates developing a new educational platform for assisting instructors in using such technology in the teaching process without web programming obstacles. The OVLs are online environments that provide students…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Computer Simulation, Laboratory Experiments, Educational Technology
Zidny, Robby; Solfarina, S.; Aisyah, Ratna Sari Siti; Eilks, Ingo – Education Sciences, 2021
Indigenous science is comprised of the science-related knowledge and associated practices of indigenous cultures. Indigenous science provides rich contexts that can contribute to understanding the relationship of sociocultural life and environmental ethics in certain communities. It can also lead to better reflection upon Western modern views of…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Tribes, Secondary School Science, College Science
Burkholder, Eric; Wang, Karen; Wieman, Carl – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Diagnostic tests for placing students into appropriate courses are commonly used in higher education math and science departments. We found no physics education research examining the validity of such exams, how well they are placing students into appropriate courses, and what guidance these exams can give for better focusing instruction. In this…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Diagnostic Tests, Student Placement, Undergraduate Students
Reyna, Jorge – Research in Learning Technology, 2021
Digital media assignments empower students to become co-creators of knowledge rather than passive consumers of content. The Internet explosion and the affordability of digital technologies and devices such as smartphones, tablets and action cameras have created opportunities to use digital media in the classroom. This article aims to present an…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
