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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Using a "Primer Unit" in an Introductory Biology Course: "A Soft Landing"
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Marbach-Ad, Gili; Ribke, Melina; Gershoni, Jonathan M. – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2006
This study aimed to facilitate students' entrance to an introductory cell biology course for biology majors. The most prominent difficulty in this introductory course, is students' poor background-knowledge, such as a lack of understanding of very basic concepts and terms, and the huge differences in students' background knowledge. In order to…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Introductory Courses, Familiarity, Cytology
Using the Concept Map Technique in Teaching Introductory Cell Biology to College Freshmen
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Yarden, Hagit; Marbach-Ad, Gili; Gershoni, Jonathan M. – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2004
In our study, we focused on the conceptual understanding of the concepts and processes presented in the first lectures of an introductory course in cellular biology for biology majors. The study topic we considered was, "the structure of DNA and the functions of nucleotides". One hundred and eighteen students were asked to prepare concept maps…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Concept Mapping, College Freshmen, Introductory Courses