Students in environmental sciences, ecology, or wildlife management are often reluctant to acquire training in basic laboratory techniques. To advocate the importance of this training, we reviewed literature in the fields of biological and environmental science for one frequently used technique--centrifugation--and evaluated whether centrifugation…

The bibliometric analysis of the Brazilian periodical "Journal of Biochemistry Education" (JBE) covered the 117 articles published in 15 volumes in the period 2001-2017. Our results showed a positive trend in JBE publications with a significant increase in the number of articles since 2014, which can be related to the increase in…

Best instructional methods are essential tools to bring desirable changes in pre-service science teachers. The available literature lacks enough meta-analytic review illustrating the effect of various instructional methods on pre-service science teachers' learning outcomes. This meta-analytic review identified instructional methods used for…

We analyzed the practitioner literature on lab-based instruction in biology in "The American Biology Teacher" between 2007 and 2012. We investigated what laboratory learning looks like in biology classrooms, what topics are addressed, what instructional methods and activities are described, and what is being learned about student…

In 2006, the authors began a project to understand what happens in middle school technology education classrooms in order to document the goals that technology education teachers pursue, the instructional strategies they use to teach children to meet these outcomes, the measures they use to assess achievement of these goals, and the learning…

Determines through an historical review of the literature some of the most effective ways to teach manipulative skills in chemistry. Reviews chemical education journals, laboratory manuals, early American chemistry textbooks, analytical chemistry texts, and science education textbooks and journals that address instructional methods for teaching…

Reviews the group supervision literature in counselor training from 1960 to 1983. Included only those articles pertaining to supervised groups of counselor trainees participating in individual counseling practica. Descriptions of group supervision include elements of case presentation, didactic information, and interpersonal process. (Author/BH)

Presents a concise review of the relevant literature on small laboratory groups and their supposed contribution to moral growth; consideration of the cognitive-developmental approach to relationships between moral thought and moral action; and a description of the questions, instruments, and procedures that provided the framework for the reported…

Research on reflective teaching is reviewed in the areas of: its benefits; the Exxon Educational Foundation Project; students' ability to think and talk critically about teaching and learning; identification of variables during the act of teaching; perceptions of teaching; conceptual development and modes of thinking; and the self-concept,…

Laboratory facilities make possible the audio- and videotaping of counseling as well as live observation, and with these aides the counselor educator can help counselor trainees significantly improve their counseling skills. Undermining the potential value and success of the laboratory practicum is the problem of counselee staffing. (Author)

The author visited 12 teacher-education programs in six southern and midwestern states. He reports on current practices in pre-student teaching laboratory training, student teaching, and extended campus programs. (SJL)

An early field experience program is described which attempts to convey the connections between theoretical knowledge and practice to preservice elementary school teachers. The program is guided by John Dewey's concepts of apprenticeship and partnership. Preservice teachers are encouraged to look on their own teaching reflectively. (PP)

Describes some aspects of practical work in science education which can be supported by information and communications technology (ICT). Presents issues to consider when planning ICT-based practical work. (WRM)

Laboratory method defines empathy colloquially as the ability "to get into another person's shoes," yet very often, empathy training concentrates only on understanding another's feelings. Empathy training should go beyond the ability to understand feelings. Kenepathy is a term which has been coined to broaden the accepted application of…