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Luby, Claire; Tepe, Emily; Irish, Laura; Michaels, Thomas; Hoover, Emily – Natural Sciences Education, 2021
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many courses were forced online. This posed particular challenges for courses with laboratory or hands-on components. A group of instructors at the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison designed an online, asynchronous course structure for teaching introductory horticulture courses…
Descriptors: Hands on Science, Horticulture, Web Based Instruction, Experiential Learning
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Anderson, Neil O.; Hoover, Emily; Longo, Bernadette; Ross, Marjorie – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
Written scientific communication, such as laboratory reports, are important components of undergraduate education within the sciences. Since most Horticultural Science majors offer lecture- and lab-based courses, students often write laboratory reports for many courses across the curriculum and these reports comprise a large percentage of the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Scientific and Technical Information, Grading
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Anderson, Neil O.; Flash, Pamela – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Peer review is not included in undergraduate horticultural curricula. Our research objectives in an 8- year study, which ranged from 2000 to 2007 in two sections (2000-2002 non-peer reviewed and 2003-2007 peer-reviewed) of Greenhouse Management students at the University of Minnesota were to determine whether iterative peer reviews would result in…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation, Horticulture