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Jul 3, 2021 · Common examples of high-impact practices include first-year seminars to help with the transition to college life, integrated coursework (e.g., Technology abd Society) that helps students make connections across disciplines, writing-intensive courses, collaborative assignments and projects, undergraduate research, internships, and service or community-based learning (Kuh 2008; Sandeen 2012 ...
- Alexandria K Hansen, Patrice Connors, Dermot Donnelly-Hermosillo, Robert Full, Alisa Hove, Hayley La...
- 2021
Oct 13, 2017 · Biologists have long been concerned about the quality of undergraduate biology education. Indeed, some biology education journals, such as the American Biology Teacher, have been in existence since the 1930s. Early contributors to these journals addressed broad questions about science learning, such as whether collaborative or individual ...
- Susan R. Singer, Natalie R. Nielsen, Heidi A. Schweingruber
- 2013
Oct 13, 2017 · The committee 4 that authored A New Biology (NRC, 2009; Figure 1) was asked by the National Institutes of Health, NSF, and the U.S. Department of Energy to undertake an appraisal of areas in which the life sciences are poised to make major advances and of how these advances could contribute to practical applications and improved environmental stewardship, human health, and quality of life.
- Jay B. Labov, Ann H. Reid, Keith R. Yamamoto
- 2010
Jan 10, 2024 · Since biology is the study of life, it should come as no surprise that there are many types of life to study. Therefore, a major in biology can include any number of concentrations,r ...
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Education in the life sciences at these levels is apt to involve exposure to “science” or “general science” in the elementary or junior high school grades and to a course in biology in high school. The overwhelming majority of secondary school students study biology in the tenth grade; a small but increasing fraction are exposed to an ...
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Jul 3, 2021 · Human‐centered, active‐learning approaches can help students develop core competencies in biology and other STEM fields, including the ability to conduct research, use quantitative reasoning ...
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Sep 16, 2022 · Non-science majors and science majors differ in several ways (Table 1). A small study comparing non-biology (N = 30) and biology majors (N = 25) revealed differences existing before college, as students’ ACT scores differed significantly (Hebert and Cotner, 2019). Fewer non-biology majors than biology majors reported taking advanced high ...