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Klymkowsky, Michael W.; Cooper, Melanie M. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2012
There is a growing acknowledgement that STEM education, at all levels, is not producing learners with a deep understanding of core disciplinary concepts. A number of efforts in STEM education reform have focused on the development of "student-centered" active learning environments, which, while believed to be more effective, have yet to be widely…
Descriptors: Science Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Scientific Concepts
White, Harold B. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2010
In his last commentary on "Biochemistry Denatured," this author dealt with his perception that college students today have spent too little of their childhood years playing outside in nature and as a consequence have not learned basic things about the world from personal experience. This "nature-deficit disorder" removes many opportunities for…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Prior Learning, Lecture Method, Relevance (Education)
White, Harold B. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2009
The concurrent improvement in average grades earned by college graduates would seem to indicate better quality students, although some observers attribute that to grade inflation. From the author's perspective derived from almost four decades of teaching at one institution, students are intellectually as good as ever; however, the author sees a…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Grade Inflation, Academic Achievement, Epistemology