Public Scholarship Student Projects for Introductory Environmental Courses

Public Scholarship Student Projects for Introductory Environmental Courses

Background: Education For Environmental Public Scholarship Public scholarship is scholarship that is used to inform public debate of the issues we face as a society. Likewise, education for public scholarship connects classroom concepts to societal issues and helps students act as educated citizens within a democracy. This is especially important for environmental issues given the urgent and co...

Understanding Student Answers In Introductory Physics Courses

Many assigned problems in introductory physics courses require the student to formulate a system of algebraic equations that describe a physical situation. An Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) designed to help must be able to identify which physical quantity each student variable represents, and which fundamental laws each of her equations incorporates. Many ITS’s predefine the variables ([4,2]...

Interactive Student Support for Introductory Computer Science Courses

This paper describes the development of interactive multimedia modules which provide supplementary tutorials on basic topics covered in introductory computer science classes. Two such modules were implemented on the topics of number conversions and basic operating system information. The first versions of the tutorials were evaluated in a study using protocol collection and a post-test with a n...

Increasing Minority Student Retention in Introductory Science Courses

COLLEGE SCIENCE TEACHING Many colleges and universities across the United States are facing an extremely important educational challenge—a low number of highachieving minority undergraduates (African American, Hispanic American, and Native American) who successfully persist in premedical and science-based courses of study. This situation poses particular challenges at major research institution...

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