Journal of College Science Teaching articles from September 2006

Journal of College Science Teaching archives from September 2006

A "Nature of Science" Discussion.(teaching science to nonscience college majors)
September 1, 2006... Byline: James Hohman, Paul Adams, John Heinrichs, Karen Hickman Nonscience majors often come into science courses with misconceptions about the nature of science. As part of an integrative mathematics and science course, we have structured...

A Service-Learning Model for Science Education Outreach.(Science Education Outreach Program)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Joyce Gutstein, Martin Smith, and David Manahan The Science Education Outreach Program (SEOP) engages undergraduate students from a variety of academic disciplines in service-learning experiences. University and community educators...

Promoting Discussion in the Science Classroom Using Gallery Walks.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Francek Figure 1. Students add comments to a posted gallery-walk question. Photos courtesy of the author. A gallery walk is a discussion technique that gets students out of their chairs and actively involved in...

The Virtual Vee Map.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Margaret Coffman and Leela Riggs The Virtual Vee Map proved successful in promoting student learning in the areas of inquiry and data analysis using resources and data available on the internet. A postsurvey found that a majority of...

A Course in Nanotechnology for Nonscience Majors.
September 1, 2006... Byline: R. David Crouch Chemistry is a good entry to many topics in nanotechnology. This paper describes a non-science majors' course in which chemical concepts provide the background to the study of this new field. Science courses for...

Using Student Peer Review of Experiment Reports in an Undergraduate Physics Class.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Timothy Moran and Stephen J. Van Hook A class centered on student design of experiments and peer review of the resulting reports is described. Thirteen students in an honors seminar section of an introductory physics class designed...

A Message From the NSTA President Quality Science Teachers: Essential to America's Future.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Linda Froschauer After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, the United States became focused, as a nation, on the improvement of science education. Sputnik was a wakeup call that shattered our belief that we held a...

Professional Development Cases.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Shawn Glynn, Thomas Koballa, Dava Coleman, and Peggy Brickman A professional development case in college science teaching bridges the gap between educational theory and practice. A good case poses an interesting dilemma involving...

Forensic Analysis Demonstration via Hawaii Five-O.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Brian R. Shmaefsky Figure 1. Scientific vocabulary introduced during demonstration. analyte-a substance detected, identified, or measured in the laboratory. limitations-identification of all known limitations of an...

Discipline-Based Research in College Science Teaching.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr. To submit a manuscript to the Research and Teaching column, please visit http://msrs.nsta.org. Please note in the "Comments" section of the manuscript submission form that your work is intended for the...

Factors Influencing College Science Success.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Robert H. Tai, Philip M. Sadler, and Joel J. Mintzes As college science teachers, our work is reflected in the achievement of our students. Their success in achieving course goals is our success, and their failure, ours. Or at least...

iPods: Informative or Invasive?
September 1, 2006... Byline: Donald P. French Recent articles (e.g., Read 2005) and news stories (e.g., Ferguson 2005) have described the growing use of iPods for instruction. These ubiquitous devices are being used in a variety of teacher-centered and...

A Gentle Reminder that a Hypothesis is Never Proven Correct, nor is a Theory Ever Proven to Be True.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jacqueline McLaughlin Donald French, president of the Society of College Science Teachers, points out in his recent commentary on disclaimers in science textbooks that science is typically taught as a litany of terms and facts...