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Gina Passante; Antje Kohnle – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
When thinking about measurement uncertainty in a laboratory experiment that features quantum mechanical effects, it is important to consider both the physical principles of underlying quantum theory (e.g., the uncertainty due to quantum mechanical superposition states) as well as the limitations of the measurement (e.g., the spread in outcomes due…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Homework, Measurement, Science Laboratories
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Sonal Singhal; Karin E. Kram; Justin M. Valliere; Fang Wang; Brynn Heckel; Samantha C. Leigh; Kathryn E. Theiss; Charlene E. McCord; Artin Soroosh; Thomas Taylor; Stacy Zamora; Brian K. Sato – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Inquiry-based course experiences provide a scalable and equitable way to engage students in research. In this study, we describe how we introduced inquiry-based experiences to ten lower-division and upper-division courses across the biology curriculum at a regionally comprehensive public university serving the diverse population in a major…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Biology, Undergraduate Students
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Bachofer, Steven; Cass, Marque – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2022
This project report highlights a simple yet effective outreach lab benefiting the community partner, specifically the Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) youth program and Saint Mary's College students in a general science course. Building on a partnership focused on reciprocity, a portable lab experiment (Mattson Microscale Gas Chemistry lab) was…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Science Laboratories, Science Instruction, School Community Programs
Justin Komine – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The implementation of California Assembly Bill (CAB) 705 has impacted how students enroll into Physics courses. This paralleled anecdotal evidence of a decline in student mathematical abilities. The goal of this research study was to determine the existence of a relationship between CAB 705 and student success in specific Physics courses. This…
Descriptors: Performance, Community Colleges, Physics, College Science
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Zia Salim; Virginia Isava – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Across the landscape of higher education, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused fundamental changes at a variety of scales. To understand which aspects of higher education instruction at the departmental (meso-scale) level were most and least impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, chairs of geoscience departments at public higher education institutions in…
Descriptors: Geology, College Science, Department Heads, Attitudes
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Andrews, Jessica L.; de Los Rios, Juan Pablo; Rayaluru, Mythreyi; Lee, Seungwon; Mai, Lilly; Schusser, Anna; Mak, Chi H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, an at-home laboratory program was created and implemented for a section of the general chemistry course at the University of Southern California. The experiments were designed to only utilize safe household items and no special equipment. These laboratory activities, spanning over 4 weeks, focused on concepts usually…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Disease Control, School Closing
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Vater, Ashley; Mayoral, Jaime; Nunez-Castilla, Janelle; Labonte, Jason W.; Briggs, Laura A.; Gray, Jeffrey J.; Makarevitch, Irina; Rumjahn, Sharif M.; Siegel, Justin B. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Including undergraduate research in STEM education is a well-supported and growing high-impact practice that has been made much more scalable through integrating these experiences into the classroom. Here we describe a new biochemistry Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that follows a design-to-data workflow with a strong…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Student Research
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Nika Hogan; Emily Daniell Magruder; Silvana McCormick – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
This article presents a community of practice (CoP) designed to help California State University and California Community College STEM faculty implement active, equity-centered pedagogical changes. Using the Reading Apprenticeship framework as a foundation, the CoP focuses on text-based metacognitive conversations to facilitate students' authentic…
Descriptors: College Science, College Faculty, Educational Environment, Equal Education
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Newton, Mark H.; Zeidler, Dana L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Perspective taking has been identified as a critical skill in the development of scientifically literate citizenry. Despite the importance of the construct, operationalising and identifying effective pedagogical strategies to promote effective perspective taking have proven challenging. This study provides empirical evidence to support the…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Perspective Taking, Intervention, Science Instruction
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Descamps, Ian; Moore, Thomas; Pollard, Benjamin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
We present an investigation into the interdisciplinary role of physics in a physics-for-nonphysicists course at Pomona College. This work is guided by prior research into introductory physics for life science (IPLS) courses, but attends to significant differences in the scope and context of this course. We interviewed enrolled students, physics…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Science Teachers
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Katherine A. Blackford; Adrienne A. Calderon; Nelson T. Gaillard; Alexander Zera; Daniel Droege; Stephanie G. Pitch; Caitlin M. Binder; Peter C. Marsden; Laura L. Fredriksen; Alexis A. Shusterman; Michelle C. Douskey; Anne M. Baranger – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of designing effective methods for remote teaching. At the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, instructors adapted to the necessity of remote laboratory instruction by creating choose-your-own-adventure-style video-based online experiments introduced…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Electronic Learning, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation
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Miao, Haoqian; Otsuki, Andrew L.; Beckett, Joseph O.; Mascal, Mark – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
How well does the undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory curriculum prepare students for academic research, or for a bench job in industry? Running experiments that are more representative of research chemistry has the potential to better equip students for working in a research laboratory, while at the same time giving them insight into a…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Scientific Research
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Swanson, Lauren; Solorza, Ruben; Fissore, Cinzia – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2018
This article explores undergraduates' efforts to engage in scientific argumentation during exam settings. Thirteen undergraduate students enrolled in an environmental science course completed exams with questions linked around a central theme. Three types of questions were used, including those that prompted students to construct scientific…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Persuasive Discourse, Science Tests, Science Instruction
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Hight, Matthew O.; Nguyen, Nhien Q.; Su, Timothy A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
This article describes the educational and public engagement outcomes of an activity called the "ChemClout Challenge" that was implemented in a general chemistry course at UC Riverside. Students worked in groups to make chemistry-themed videos, posted them to social media platforms, then voted on their favorite videos. The majority of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, College Science, Video Technology
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Clark, Daniel D. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2019
A homologous pair of stereospecific NAD-dependent enzymes, (R)- and (S)-hydroxypropyl-coenzyme M dehydrogenase, are part of a bacterial pathway of short-chain alkene and epoxide metabolism. Their discovery and study, which spans multiple publications over more than a decade, is a data rich story that combines both classical and contemporary…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Kinetics, Science Instruction, College Science
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