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Download full textBett, Nolan N.; Piccolo, Costanza; Roberson, Nathan D.; Charbonneau, A. James; Addison, Christopher J. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2023
A primary aim of science education is to teach students how to interpret and engage with scientific information. To do so effectively requires an adequate understanding of the nature of science (NOS)--in other words, what science is and how it works. There is a long history of evidence to suggest that many undergraduate students struggle to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Interdisciplinary Approach
Sobel, Karen – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2021
Many first-year seminar courses, as well as other programs aimed at first-year undergraduate students, actively incorporate critical thinking into the curriculum. What factors motivate students who purposefully develop these critical thinking skills to continue using them during subsequent semesters? This article discusses results of a study on…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, College Freshmen
Sobel, Karen – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2018
The majority of universities and four-year colleges in the USA currently offer first-year seminars in at least one format. These programs often pride themselves in recruiting from among their institutions' best teachers to lead the seminars. In reality, this process of recruitment to teach in the program, as well as retention of faculty members…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Teacher Recruitment, Undergraduate Study, Compensation (Remuneration)
Mewis, Keith; Dee, Jaclyn; Lam, Vivienne; Obradovich, Shannon; Cassidy, Alice – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2018
During their time as Teaching Assistants (TAs), graduate students develop a variety of skills, knowledge, and attitudes (SKAs) based on teaching and related facilitation experiences. As TAs move on to future opportunities, their prior experiences form a foundation upon which additional teaching experience builds. Presently, there are few tools to…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Surveys, Graduate Students
Wismath, Shelly; Newberry, Jan – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2019
Retention of students in university or other postsecondary education programs is a common problem for many institutions, with retention from first year to second year of study being particularly problematic in Canada and the United States. A number of factors are known to affect retention, and a number of measures have been identified which can…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, Academic Persistence
Goldschmidt, Mary – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2014
Writing in the Disciplines curricula can both challenge and reinforce assumptions that writing is a general skill that students will already have learned prior to doing the specialized writing in their chosen field of study. Rhetorical genre studies, however, tends to emphasize the situated nature of writing expertise, and thus supports the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Across the Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Writing Attitudes
