Incorporating Laboratory Experiments in an Introductory Statistics Course

Exploring Metagenomics in the Laboratory of an Introductory Biology Course†

Four laboratory modules were designed for introductory biology students to explore the field of metagenomics. Students collected microbes from environmental samples, extracted the DNA, and amplified 16S rRNA gene sequences using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Students designed functional metagenomics screens to determine and compare antibiotic resistance profiles among the samples. Bioinforma...

A Critical Understanding and Transformation of an Introductory Statistics Course

In this paper, we report on the impact of four activities and two interviews on the organization of an introductory statistics course attended by future mathematics teachers at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The activities were designed to enhance students’ learning and collaborative knowledge construction, based on Vygotsky’s Socio-Historical Theory. Data were collected in the course thr...

Laboratory Design for Introductory Course of Microproessors

1 Shouling He, ECE department, Penn State Erie, 5091 Station Road, Erie, PA16563, [email protected] Abstract Nowadays, most engineering related departments offer microprocessor courses due to the broad applications of computers. However, understanding the basic concept of a microprocessor behind the physical device is a difficult task for most primary learners. Under this circumstance, laboratory e...

Using Laboratory Experiments to Teach Introductory Economics

Computability in an Introductory Course

The programming approach to computability presented in the textbook by Kfoury, Moll, and Arbib in 1982 has been embedded into a programming course following the textbook by Abelson and Sussman. This leads to a course concept teaching good programming practice and clear theoretical concepts simultaneously. Here, we explain some of the main points of this approach: the halting problem, primitive ...