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Direct linkField, Patrick R.; Logan, Kelsey L. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2018
The Game Changer is an interrupted case study that traces the football career of Anthony "Tony Tonka Truck" Williams and the types of brain trauma that he suffers from playing football, from junior league level through high school, college, and his draft into the pros. To be successful during this case, readers will have to be familiar…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Athletics, Team Sports, Brain
Ridgway, Judith S.; Ligocki, Isaac Y.; Horn, Jonathan D.; Szeyller, Erica; Breitenberger, Caroline A. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2017
Professional development (PD) for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) has been repeatedly emphasized as an essential component of future faculty training. Nonetheless, attempts to integrate PD programs into graduate curriculum are met with resistance from some stakeholders. The authors investigated stakeholders' perceptions of a novel GTA PD…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Individualized Instruction
Kulesza, Amy E.; Clawson, Megan E.; Ridgway, Judith S. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2014
Instructors are frequently uncertain about the usefulness of methods to promote student-centered learning and uneasy about adopting new technologies such as clickers. We describe a study in which an honors biology instructor implemented clickers as a mechanism for students to complete in-class quizzes. To determine the usefulness of this approach,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Biology, Science Instruction, Honors Curriculum
Partin, Matthew L.; Underwood, Eileen M.; Worch, Eric A. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2013
To develop a more scientifically literate society, students need to understand the nature of science, which may be affected by controversial topics such as evolution. There are conflicting views among researchers concerning the relationships between understanding evolution, acceptance of evolution, and understanding of the nature of science. Four…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, Evolution, Undergraduate Students
Emenike, Mary Elizabeth; Danielson, Neil D.; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2011
At Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, the second-semester general chemistry course for chemistry majors is the equivalent of an analytical laboratory course. The experiments in the course are classified as classical, discovery, or instrumental on the basis of their structure and purpose. To investigate students' perceptions of learning through…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Student Attitudes, Prior Learning, Chemistry
Firooznia, Fardad; Andreadis, Debra K. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2006
Incorporating information literacy exercises into the science curriculum will help students to navigate through the myriad of information available in different formats, and to become better scientific thinkers and writers. Here we describe how we incorporated such exercises in introductory biology and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving our…
Descriptors: Training, Scientific Research, Internet, Independent Study
