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Putting the upper-division cart before the introductory horse.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19723806 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Klionsky DJ Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Effective practices in undergraduate STEM education part 1: examining the evidence.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19723807 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Labov JB, Singer SR, George MD, Schweingruber HA, Hilton ML Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Recent research in science teaching and learning.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19723808 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Dolan E Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Jo Handelsman. Inteviewed by Laura L. Mays Hoopes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19723809 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Handelsman J Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Teaching creativity and inventive problem solving in science.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Engaging learners in the excitement of science, helping them discover the value of evidence-based reasoning and higher-order cognitive skills, and teaching them to become creative problem solvers have long been goals of science education reformers. But the means to achieve these goals, especially methods to promote creative thinking in scientific problem solving, have not become widely known or used. In this essay, I review the evidence that creativity is not a single hard-to-measure property. The creative process can be explained by reference to increasingly well-understood cognitive skills such as cognitive flexibili...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: DeHaan RL Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Replacing lecture with peer-led workshops improves student learning.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Peer-facilitated workshops enhanced interactivity in our introductory biology course, which led to increased student engagement and learning. A majority of students preferred attending two lectures and a workshop each week over attending three weekly lectures. In the workshops, students worked in small cooperative groups as they solved challenging problems, evaluated case studies, and participated in activities designed to improve their general learning skills. Students in the workshop version of the course scored higher on exam questions recycled from preworkshop semesters. Grades were higher over three workshop semes...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Preszler RW Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Development, implementation, and assessment of a lecture course on cancer for undergraduates.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We describe an approach to recruit a diverse population of future cancer researchers from an undergraduate student population at a minority-serving land-grant institution. Specifically, we have addressed the following questions: Given the dearth of published reports of undergraduate cancer courses, is it possible for undergraduates at a land-grant institution (rather than a research or medical institution) to successfully learn cancer biology from a lecture-based course? Can we develop a template that has the potential to be used by others to develop and implement an undergraduate cancer course? Can such a course stimulate...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Shuster M, Peterson K Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Active learning and student-centered pedagogy improve student attitudes and performance in introductory biology.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We describe the development and implementation of an instructional design that focused on bringing multiple forms of active learning and student-centered pedagogies to a one-semester, undergraduate introductory biology course for both majors and nonmajors. Our course redesign consisted of three major elements: 1) reordering the presentation of the course content in an attempt to teach specific content within the context of broad conceptual themes, 2) incorporating active and problem-based learning into every lecture, and 3) adopting strategies to create a more student-centered learning environment. Assessment of our instru...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Armbruster P, Patel M, Johnson E, Weiss M Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Using affinity chromatography to investigate novel protein-protein interactions in an undergraduate cell and molecular biology lab course.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Inquiry-driven lab exercises require students to think carefully about a question, carry out an investigation of that question, and critically analyze the results of their investigation. Here, we describe the implementation and assessment of an inquiry-based laboratory exercise in which students obtain and analyze novel data that contribute to our understanding of macromolecular trafficking between the nucleus and cytoplasm in eukaryotic cells. Although many of the proteins involved in nucleocytoplasmic transport are known, the physical interactions between some of these polypeptides remain uncharacterized. In this cel...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Belanger KD Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Analysis of students' aptitude to provide meaning to images that represent cellular components at the molecular level.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The number of experimentally derived structures of cellular components is rapidly expanding, and this phenomenon is accompanied by the development of a new semiotic system for teaching. The infographic approach is shifting from a schematic toward a more realistic representation of cellular components. By realistic we mean artist-prepared or computer graphic images that closely resemble experimentally derived structures and are characterized by a low level of styling and simplification. This change brings about a new challenge for teachers: designing course instructions that allow students to interpret these images in a...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Dahmani HR, Schneeberger P, Kramer IM Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Providing undergraduate science partners for elementary teachers: benefits and challenges.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Undergraduate college "science partners" provided content knowledge and a supportive atmosphere for K-5 teachers in a university-school professional development partnership program in science instruction. The Elementary Science Education Partners program, a Local Systemic Change initiative supported by the National Science Foundation, was composed of four major elements: 1) a cadre of mentor teachers trained to provide district-wide teacher professional development; 2) a recruitment and training effort to place college students in classrooms as science partners in semester-long partnerships with teachers; 3) a teacher ...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Goebel CA, Umoja A, DeHaan RL Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Cloning the professor, an alternative to ineffective teaching in a large course.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pedagogical strategies have been experimentally applied in large-enrollment biology courses in an attempt to amplify what teachers do best in effecting deep learning, thus more closely approximating a one-on-one interaction with students. Carefully orchestrated in-class formative assessments were conducted to provide frequent, high-quality feedback that allows students to accurately diagnose the current state of their understanding of fundamental biological concepts and make specific plans to remedy any deficiencies. Teachers can also assume responsibility to guide out-of-class study among classmates by promoting Elabo...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 3, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Nelson J, Robison DF, Bell JD, Bradshaw WS Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Talking to learn: why biology students should be talking in classrooms and how to make it happen.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19487494 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Tanner KD Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Current developments and funding opportunities in life sciences education.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Allen D, Woodin T Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

BioDiversifying the Curriculum.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19487496 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Liu D Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Recent research in science teaching and learning.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19487497 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Dolan E Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Northeast Under/graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience (NEURON): our 13th conference for neuroscience trainees and educators.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19487498 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: McLaughlin JP, Gomes S, Seliga A, Ramos-Goyette S, Morrison A, Reich CG, Frye CA Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Carol hurney.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19487499 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Mays Hoopes LL Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Garage demos: using physical models to illustrate dynamic aspects of microscopic biological processes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Colorful PowerPoint presentations with detailed drawings, micrographs, and short animations have become the standard format for illustrating the fundamental features of cell biology in large introductory classes. In this essay, we describe a low-tech tool that can be included in a standard lecture to help students visualize, understand, and remember the dynamic aspects of microscopic cell biological processes. This approach involves use of common objects, including pipe insulation and a garden hose, to illustrate basic processes such as protein folding and cloning, hence the appellation "garage demos." The demonstratio...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: O'Dowd DK, Aguilar-Roca N Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

The research dynamic: a professional development model for secondary school science teachers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This essay summarizes the author's 10 years of experience at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation mentoring secondary school science teachers during 8-wk Summer Research Institutes. The summary is presented as a learning model, which we call the research dynamic. This model consists of three interlocked components: specified ignorance, peer interactions, and gateway experiments. Specified ignorance is based on the work of the sociologist Robert K. Merton. It is essentially the art of highlighting what is not known about a phenomenon but must become known for further progress. In practice, specified ignorance is fra...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Silverman PM Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

A statistical analysis of student questions in a cell biology laboratory.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, we examined questions written by students as they prepared for laboratory exercises in a senior-level cell biology class. Our goals were to discover 1) what types of questions students asked about laboratory activities, 2) whether the types or quality of questions changed over time, and 3) whether the quality of questions or degree of improvement was related to academic performance. We found a majority of questions were about laboratory outcomes or seeking additional descriptive information about organisms or processes to be studied. Few questions earned the highest possible ranking, which required demonstra...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Keeling EL, Polacek KM, Ingram EL Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

A study of rubisco through western blotting and tissue printing techniques.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We describe a laboratory exercise developed for a cell biology course for second-year undergraduate biology majors. It was designed to introduce undergraduates to the basic molecular biology techniques of Western blotting and immunodetection coupled with the technique of tissue printing in detecting the presence, relative abundance, and distribution of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase in various plant materials. Pre- and postlab surveys indicated significant postlab gains in student understanding of all three lab techniques and relevant lecture topics. Additional postlab survey questions on student perception of the l...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Ma Z, Cooper C, Kim HJ, Janick-Buckner D Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

An investigative, cooperative learning approach to the general microbiology laboratory.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Investigative- and cooperative-based learning strategies have been used effectively in a variety of classrooms to enhance student learning and engagement. In the General Microbiology laboratory for juniors and seniors at James Madison University, these strategies were combined to make a semester-long, investigative, cooperative learning experience involving culture and identification of microbial isolates that the students obtained from various environments. To assess whether this strategy was successful, students were asked to complete a survey at the beginning and at the end of the semester regarding their comfort le...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - June 27, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Seifert K, Fenster A, Dilts JA, Temple L Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Ron Hoy inteviewed by Laura L. Mays Hoopes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19255129 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 7, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Hoopes LL Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Darwin on the web: resources for darwin 200 and beyond.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Stark LA Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Ron hoy.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Hoopes LL Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Recent research in science teaching and learning.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Dolan E Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

It Isn't Easy Glowing Green.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Loertscher J Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

A crash course in evolution.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Kalumuck K Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Enhancing Interdisciplinary, Mathematics, and Physical Science in an Undergraduate Life Science Program through Physical Chemistry.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
BIO2010 advocates enhancing the interdisciplinary, mathematics, and physical science components of the undergraduate biology curriculum. The Department of Chemistry and Life Science at West Point responded by developing a required physical chemistry course tailored to the interests of life science majors. To overcome student resistance to physical chemistry, students were enabled as long-term stakeholders who would shape the syllabus by selecting life science topics of interest to them. The initial 2 yr of assessment indicates that students have a positive view of the course, feel they have succeeded in achieving cours...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Pursell DP Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

A Combination of Hand-held Models and Computer Imaging Programs Helps Students Answer Oral Questions about Molecular Structure and Function: A Controlled Investigation of Student Learning.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We conducted a controlled investigation to examine whether a combination of computer imagery and tactile tools helps introductory cell biology laboratory undergraduate students better learn about protein structure/function relationships as compared with computer imagery alone. In all five laboratory sections, students used the molecular imaging program, Protein Explorer (PE). In the three experimental sections, three-dimensional physical models were made available to the students, in addition to PE. Student learning was assessed via oral and written research summaries and videotaped interviews. Differences between the ...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Harris MA, Peck RF, Colton S, Morris J, Chaibub Neto E, Kallio J Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Minimal impact of organic chemistry prerequisite on student performance in introductory biochemistry.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Curriculum design assumes that successful completion of prerequisite courses will have a positive impact on student performance in courses that require the prerequisite. We recently had the opportunity to test this assumption concerning the relationship between completion of the organic chemistry prerequisite and performance in introductory biochemistry. We found no statistically significant differences between average biochemistry grades or grade distribution among students with or without the organic chemistry prerequisite. However, students who had not completed the organic chemistry prerequisite before biochemistry...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Wright R, Cotner S, Winkel A Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Can an inquiry approach improve college student learning in a teaching laboratory?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We present an inquiry-based, hands-on laboratory exercise on enzyme activity for an introductory college biology course for science majors. We measure student performance on a series of objective and subjective questions before and after completion of this exercise; we also measure performance of a similar cohort of students before and after completion of an existing, standard, "direct" exercise over the same topics. Although student performance on these questions increased significantly after completion of the inquiry exercise, it did not increase after completion of the control, standard exercise. Pressure to "cover" man...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Rissing SW, Cogan JG Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

High School Intervention for Influenza Biology and Epidemics/Pandemics: Impact on Conceptual Understanding among Adolescents.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Understanding real-life issues such as influenza epidemiology may be of particular interest to the development of scientific knowledge and initiation of conceptual changes about viruses and their life cycles for high school students. The goal of this research project was to foster the development of adolescents' conceptual understanding of viruses and influenza biology. Thus, the project included two components: 1) pre- and posttests to determine students' conceptions about influenza biology, epidemics/pandemics, and vaccination; and 2) design an intervention that supports conceptual change to promote improvements in i...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Dumais N, Hasni A Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Evaluation of the redesign of an undergraduate cell biology course.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article offers a case study of the evaluation of a redesigned and redeveloped laboratory-based cell biology course. The course was a compulsory element of the biology program, but the laboratory had become outdated and was inadequately equipped. With the support of a faculty-based teaching improvement project, the teaching team redesigned the course and re-equipped the laboratory, using a more learner-centered, constructivist approach. The focus of the article is on the project-supported evaluation of the redesign rather than the redesign per se. The evaluation involved aspects well beyond standard course assessments,...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: McEwen LA, Harris D, Schmid RF, Vogel J, Western T, Harrison P Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Stem Cells and Society: An Undergraduate Course Exploring the Intersections among Science, Religion, and Law.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We describe a new course, Stem Cells and Society, in which students explore the basic biology of stem cell research and the controversy surrounding it. As part of the course, we highlight the nature of science, looking at the methods and norms within the scientific community. To gain a perspective on the current stem cell controversy, we examine the public debates in the 1970s surrounding in vitro fertilization, the stem cell initiative in Missouri, and the personal and religious viewpoints that have emerged relative to the stem cell debate. In the Stem Cells and Society course, students are challenged to develop and clari...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - March 5, 2009 Category: Cytology Authors: Pierret C, Friedrichsen P Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Marianne Bronner-Fraser. Interviewed by Laura L. Mays Hoopes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 9, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Bronner-Fraser M Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Integrating policy and decision making into undergraduate science education.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19047418 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Labov JB, Huddleston NF Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Recent research in science teaching and learning.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19047419 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Dolan E Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Marianne bronner-fraser.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19047420 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Hoopes LL Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Matters of life and death: a cellular tour informed by basic research.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19047421 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Kalumuck K Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

In the company of geneticists.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19047422 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Vázquez J Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

A delicate balance: integrating active learning into a large lecture course.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A lecture section of introductory biology that historically enrolled more than 500 students was split into two smaller sections of approximately 250 students each. A traditional lecture format was followed in the "traditional" section; lecture time in the "active" section was drastically reduced in favor of a variety of in-class student-centered activities. Students in both sections took unannounced quizzes and multiple-choice exams. Evaluation consisted of comparisons of student survey responses, scores on standardized teaching evaluation forms, section averages and attendance, and open-ended student comments on end-o...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Walker JD, Cotner SH, Baepler PM, Decker MD Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Biology in Bloom: Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy to Enhance Student Learning in Biology.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We developed the Blooming Biology Tool (BBT), an assessment tool based on Bloom's Taxonomy, to assist science faculty in better aligning their assessments with their teaching activities and to help students enhance their study skills and metacognition. The work presented here shows how assessment tools, such as the BBT, can be used to guide and enhance teaching and student learning in a discipline-specific manner in postsecondary education. The BBT was first designed and extensively tested for a study in which we ranked almost 600 science questions from college life science exams and standardized tests. The BBT was the...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Crowe A, Dirks C, Wenderoth MP Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Investigative Cases and Student Outcomes in an Upper-Division Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory Course at a Minority-serving Institution.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Active-learning strategies are increasingly being integrated into college-level science courses to make material more accessible to all students and to improve learning outcomes. One active-learning pedagogy, case-based learning (CBL), was developed as a way to both enhance engagement in the material and to accommodate diverse learning styles. Yet, adoption of CBL approaches in undergraduate biology courses has been piecemeal, in part because of the perceived investment of time required. Furthermore, few CBL lesson plans have been developed specifically for upper-division laboratory courses. Here, we describe four case...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Knight JD, Fulop RM, Márquez-Magaña L, Tanner KD Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Encouraging minority undergraduates to choose science careers: career paths survey results.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To explore the reasons for the dearth of minorities in Ph.D.-level biomedical research and identify opportunities to increase minority participation, we surveyed high-achieving alumni of an undergraduate biology enrichment program for underrepresented minorities. Respondents were asked to describe their career paths and to reflect on the influences that guided their career choices. We particularly probed for attitudes and experiences that influenced students to pursue a research career, as well as factors relevant to their choice between medicine (the dominant career choice) and basic science. In agreement with earlier...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Villarejo M, Barlow AE, Kogan D, Veazey BD, Sweeney JK Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

A molecular genetics laboratory course applying bioinformatics and cell biology in the context of original research.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We describe here a project developed for a semester-long research-based laboratory course that accompanies a genetics lecture course. The project was designed to allow students to become familiar with the use of bioinformatics tools and molecular biology and genetic approaches while carrying out original research. Students were required to present their hypotheses, experiments, and results in a comprehensive lab report. The lab project concerned the yeast casein kinase 1 (CK1) protein kinase Yck2. CK1 protein kinases are present in all organisms and are well conserved in primary structure. These enzymes display sequence fe...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Brame CJ, Pruitt WM, Robinson LC Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

The genetics concept assessment: a new concept inventory for gauging student understanding of genetics.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We have designed, developed, and validated a 25-question Genetics Concept Assessment (GCA) to test achievement of nine broad learning goals in majors and nonmajors undergraduate genetics courses. Written in everyday language with minimal jargon, the GCA is intended for use as a pre- and posttest to measure student learning gains. The assessment was reviewed by genetics experts, validated by student interviews, and taken by >600 students at three institutions. Normalized learning gains on the GCA were positively correlated with averaged exam scores, suggesting that the GCA measures understanding of topics relevant to...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - December 3, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Smith MK, Wood WB, Knight JK Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

David Wells. Inteviewed by Laura L. Mays Hoopes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18765749 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 6, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Wells D Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals

Gregory Florant. Inteviewed by Laura L. Mays Hoopes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18765750 [PubMed - in process] (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - September 6, 2008 Category: Cytology Authors: Florant G Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: journals