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Download full textShi, Jia; Power, Joy M.; Klymkowsky, Michael W. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
Well-designed "controls" distinguish experimental from non-experimental studies. Surprisingly, we found that a high percentage of students had difficulty identifying control experiments even after completing three university-level laboratory courses. To address this issue, we designed and ran a revised cell biology lab course in which…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Research Design, Science Experiments, Science Laboratories
Direct linkPerkins, Katherine K.; Loeblein, Patricia J.; Dessau, Kathryn L. – Science Teacher, 2010
Since 2002, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado has been working to provide learning tools for students and teachers. The project has developed over 85 interactive simulations--or sims--for teaching and learning science. Although these sims can be used in a variety of ways, they are specifically designed to make…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Simulation, Inquiry, Higher Education
