Journal articleStudies in Higher Education · January 1, 2024
Across undergraduate STEM learning contexts in several countries, students’ intrapersonal attributes of epistemic beliefs, self-efficacy beliefs, intrinsic motivation, and sense of identity have been found to influence learning and to change in response to ...
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Journal articleBioscience · March 1, 2023
When students answer test questions incorrectly, we often assume they don’t understand the content; instead, they may struggle with certain cognitive skills or with how questions are asked. Our goal was to look beyond content to understand what makes asses ...
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Journal articleCBE life sciences education · September 2022
Writing is an important skill for communicating knowledge in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and an aid to developing students' communication skills, content knowledge, and disciplinary thinking. Despite the importance of writing, ...
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Journal articleJournal of Writing Research · February 1, 2021
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Efforts to accelerate the pace of adoption of writing-to-learn (WTL) practices in undergraduate STEM courses have been limited by a lack of theoretical and conceptual frameworks to systematically guide research and empirical evidence about the extent to wh ...
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Journal articleBioscience · January 1, 2021
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In the originally published version of this manuscript, the following errors were noted and listed in this corrigendum. Upon the original publication, there was an error in the “References cited” section. The following reference should read: “Armstrong MJ, ...
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Journal articleEcology and evolution · November 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for instructors who seek high-impact educational practices that can be facilitated online without creating excessive burdens with technology, grading, or enforcement of honor codes. These practices must also ...
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Journal articleEcosphere · February 1, 2020
Programs designed to broaden participation in science are often deemed “successful” based on quantitative evidence such as student participation rates, retention, and persistence. These numbers alone only explain that a program met its goals; they seldom c ...
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Journal articleCBE life sciences education · June 2019
Various personal dimensions of students-particularly motivation, self-efficacy beliefs, and epistemic beliefs-can change in response to teaching, affect student learning, and be conceptualized as learning dispositions. We propose that these learning dispos ...
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Journal articleBioscience · September 1, 2018
Professional societies can, and should, recruit and retain young scientists by providing a welcoming and inclusive intellectual home. SEEDS (Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity and Sustainability), the flagship education program of the Ecological S ...
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Journal articleCBE life sciences education · January 2018
Developing critical-thinking and scientific reasoning skills are core learning objectives of science education, but little empirical evidence exists regarding the interrelationships between these constructs. Writing effectively fosters students' developmen ...
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Journal articleJournal of Chemical Education · January 1, 2015
The Department of Chemistry at Duke University has endeavored to expand participation in undergraduate honors thesis research while maintaining the quality of the learning experience. Accomplishing this goal has been constrained by limited departmental res ...
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Journal articleCBE life sciences education · January 2015
A pervasive notion in the literature is that complex concept maps reflect greater knowledge and/or more expert-like thinking than less complex concept maps. We show that concept maps used to structure scientific writing and clarify scientific reasoning do ...
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Journal articleCBE life sciences education · January 2012
Despite substantial evidence that writing can be an effective tool to promote student learning and engagement, writing-to-learn (WTL) practices are still not widely implemented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, partic ...
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Journal articleASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · August 25, 2011
In engineering programs, students develop skills in both technical design and writing, and a capstone design course gives students the opportunity to practice and refine these skills. In our course (a collaboration between faculty and students at the Unive ...
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Journal articleCBE life sciences education · January 2011
One of the best opportunities that undergraduates have to learn to write like a scientist is to write a thesis after participating in faculty-mentored undergraduate research. But developing writing skills doesn't happen automatically, and there are signifi ...
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Journal articleJournal of College Science Teaching · 2010
Research service-learning (RSL) is an emerging pedagogy in which students engage in research within a service-learning context. This approach has great potential to promote science literacy because it teaches students how to use scientific knowledge and sc ...
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Journal articleBioscience · November 1, 2009
Undergraduate theses and other capstone research projects are standard features of many science curricula, but participation has typically been limited to only the most advanced and highly motivated students. With the recent push to engage more undergradua ...
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Journal articleWriting Across the Curriculum Journal · 2008
Most instructors teaching writing courses seek ways to improve student writing and facilitate more active student engagement in the revision process. One way to do this is through teaching students to provide high quality peer reviews. In this study, we fo ...
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Journal articleJournal of College Science Teaching · 2008
Calibrated Peer Review (CPR), an online program that purportedly helps students develop as writers and critical thinkers, is being increasingly used by science educators. CPR is an enticing tool since it does not require instructors to grade student writin ...
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Journal articleJournal of College Science Teaching · 2007
While the formats and conventions of scientific and technical writing vary from field to field, the transcendent requirement is precision, so that the work can be understood and, if necessary, reproduced. Science teachers undoubtedly tell students about th ...
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Journal articleCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences · April 1, 2003
Understanding species-habitat associations is critical for designing marine reserves, defining essential fish habitat, and predicting the impacts of climate change on fisheries. For many species, however, there is a paucity of fisheries-independent data th ...
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Journal articleMarine Resource Economics · 2003
This paper examines the North American sea urchin fishery, with a particular focus on the Japanese wholesale market. After a brief history and discussion of biology, methods of harvesting are discussed, followed by an overview of processing, handling, and ...
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