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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Introductory Biology"”.
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Peer Led Team Learning in Introductory Biology: Effects on Critical Thinking Skills
… (PLTL) instructional model on undergraduate, biology peer leaders' critical thinking skills. This investigation also explored peer leaders' perceptions of their critical thinking skills. A quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test with control group design was used to determine critical thinking …
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Learning strategies used by honors students in an investigative introductory biology laboratory program
… ten students who were enrolled in Principles of Biology Laboratory Hl15 which used an investigative approach. The primary data were gathered through interviews with the students. Additional data to provide a more holistic description of some aspects of the students' use of learning strategies …
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Creating a framework for systems-based graphic analysis and the assessment of college-level introductory biology textbooks
… for research in this area. Since many college biology classes are modeled around the same style and emphasis found in the textbooks used for those courses, this provided an avenue for an examination of these materials. This research involved the selection of five popular introductory, …
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Active Learning in a Large Enrollment Introductory Biology Class: Problem Solving, Formative Feedback, and Teaching as Learning
… learning experiences in a large enrollment introductory biology class. Traditionally such classes are taught through the lecture method with limited instructor-student interaction and minimal student-centered learning (Lewis & Woodward, 1984; Wulff, Nyquist, & Abbott, 1987). Biology 120 …
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Addressing Instructional Challenges Identified by Teaching Assistants to Improve Outcomes for Undergraduate Students in an Introductory Biology Lab
This study explored learning outcomes in the biology department of a private, suburban, liberal arts institution with an undergraduate enrollment of about 4,800 students. Graduate student teaching assistants (TAs) are the primary instructors in four introductory biology labs. These TAs routinely …
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Peer-Led Team Learning: The Effect of Peer Leader and Student Interactions on Student Learning Gains and Course Achievement in Introductory Biology
<p>This study sought to connect the literature on Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) to the work on student-teacher interactions as well as STEM role models. Student and peer leader interactions were explored to determine the effect of these interactions on student learning outcomes. Students and their …
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An Investigation of the Impacts of Face-to-Face and Virtual Laboratories in an Introductory Biology Course on Students' Motivation to Learn Biology.
… and virtual laboratories in a large-enrollment introductory biology course on students* motivation to learn biology. The laboratory component of post-secondary science courses is where students have opportunities for frequent interactions with instructors and their peers (Seymour & Hewitt, 1997; …
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Community college students' plant biodiversity learning experience in an introductory biology course: exploring the value added by using a CD-ROM to develop inquiry lessons
… E.O. Wilson. The setting of the research was an introductory biology course in a rural public community college in the Deep South. Six participants were purposively selected to represent three levels of achievement and two groups, the CD-ROM group (exposed to CD-ROM in addition to the textbook) …
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Assessing the Impact of Metacognition and Reading Lessons on Metacognitive Awareness, Reading Comprehension, and Attitude in Introductory College Biology
… skills and active reading strategies in college introductory biology improve student success in biology? A pre- and post-survey design using validated surveys was used (α = 0.05). The surveys were: the Metacognitive Awareness in Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI), the Biology Attitude Scale …
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Evolution Acceptance, Religiosity, and Nature of Science in an Undergraduate Population
… of research into the acceptance of evolutionary biology have revealed a number of factors that are related to an individual’s choice to accept or reject evolutionary biology. This work seeks to extend that work in the following key ways: (1) Use a longitudinal time frame, along with …
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General Biology Lecture and Laboratory Curriculum Outline in a Two or Four-Year College
… describing my thesis agenda of a general biology lecture and laboratory syllabus for introductory biology students. I requested the titles and authors of the general biology textbooks and laboratory manuals they were currently using, the publishers of these texts, and the edition of said …
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The Effects of Self-Regulation and Recitation on STEM Student Academic Performance
… and recitation status was administered in introductory biology courses. Student achievement (final course grade) was used to evaluate likelihood of future retention. Latent factors of learning and study strategies, obtained from the self-regulation questions on the student survey, were …
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The Cell Membrane Science Suitcase: An Educational Module for High School Biology Students
… Cell Membrane Science Briefcase, for high school introductory biology students. The module is part of the Science Teacher Access to Resources at Southwestern series of educational Science Suitcases, made available to teachers within the Dallas Independent School District and neighboring …
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Rules of the Game: Effects of a Game-based Metaphor on Instructional Activity Design and the Use of Student Mentors on Learning Outcomes in a Middle School General Science Class
… class and student engagement?;For this study an introductory biology unit was designed using a game-like curricular structure. Student mentors were utilized in order to aid focus on the content and not the technology. The results indicated that the instructional design of the unit using a …
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Student Hormonal Responses in Two Learning Environments
… biomarker, in students who participated in an introductory biology course taught in either a traditional lecture hall or a SCALE-UP (Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs) classroom. We hypothesized that students taking the course held in the SCALE-UP classroom …
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Assessing assessment : how use of the concept of inventory of natural selection influences the instructional practices of an experienced biology professor and supplemental instruction leader
… moving toward such goals. A recent addition to biology education, CIs hold much promise for helping faculty to understand their students' preconceptions and therefore, how to design lessons to better support students' conceptual change processes. While these are the hopes of the developers, no …
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"Evo in the News": A Pedagogical Tool to Enhance Students' Perceptions of the Relevance of Evolutionary Biology
… evolution in a sample of undergraduate non-major biology students at a large, private research university. In addition, this study looked at the initial attitudes of the students and their knowledge of evolution before beginning a second semester introductory biology course. Both the initial …
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Harnessing curiosity, interest, and empathy in the college chemistry classroom
… of low-performing students in psychology and introductory biology courses. In this study, a multi-semester UV intervention was implemented to increase curiosity, a predictor of increased learning and retention, of three student cohorts going through general and organic chemistry. Based on a …
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Effectiveness of Mandatory Online Supplemental Instruction in an Introductory Cell and Molecular Biology Course
… online supplemental instruction program in an introductory cell and molecular biology course at a community college in Northern Nevada. To accomplish this, the study focused on the dependent variable of course GPA, and the issuance rate of "D" or "F" letter grades and withdraws for students who …