Scientific Teaching

Teaching about scientific dissent from neo-darwinism.

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The pipeline. Scientific teaching in practice.

Scientific Teaching Targeting Faculty from Diverse Institutions

We offered four annual professional development workshops called STAR (for Scientific Teaching, Assessment, and Resources) modeled after the National Academies Summer Institute (SI) on Undergraduate Education in Biology. In contrast to the SI focus on training faculty from research universities, STAR's target was faculty from community colleges, 2-yr campuses, and public and private research un...

Teaching Scientific Ethics Effectively at Any Level

247 Volume 15, Number 2 a central role in science but also that science influences ethics. The book can be used as a guide for scientists to make good judgments about what is acceptable and not acceptable in science. It can also help scientists determine how they want to see their discipline develop in the future in light of scientific discoveries and technological advancements in an increasing...

The scientific method and scientific inquiry: tension as in teaching and learning

Scientific method has been considered by many to lie at the core of scientific inquiry. In this paper, we look closely at teacher and student discourse in a typical high school science classroom to investigate what the teaching and learning of scientific method looks like and to consider the impacts an emphasis on method has on students’ inquiry performance. Through a lens of activity theory, o...