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| Resources: Science Education |
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| All Disciplines Center for Education, National Academy of Sciences Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning, University of Wisconsin: http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/cirtl/ Center for Science and Mathematics Teaching, Tufts University Charles A. Dana Center, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas
at Austin Coalition for Science Literacy, University of South Florida National Institute for Science Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/nise/ Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Biology The American Physiological Society, Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships: http://www.the-aps.org/education/ugsrf/index.html Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences (CELS), University of Wisconsin,
Madison Center for Biology Education (CBE), University of Wisconsin, Madison http://www.wisc.edu/cbe/ The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE) Chemistry The Workshop Chemistry Project: Peer-Led Team Learning http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chemwksp/ Research Site for Educators in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities Engineering Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching, University of Washington http://www.engr.washington.edu/~celtweb/ Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education Math Project NExT, "New Experiences in Teaching" Physics Workshops for New Physics and Astronomy Faculty, American Association
of Physics Teachers ConcepTests, Project Galileo, Harvard University Inquiry-Based Learning Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Edgerton Center University of Colorado, Discovery Learning Initiative, College of Engineering: http://discoverylearning.colorado.edu/ University of Delaware, PBL: Problem-Based Learning University of Texas at Austin, Discovery Learning Project
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| Government Reports and Hearings Report of the National Science Board, December 2002:
National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 Hearing Proceedings, March 7, 2002: The Science and Engineering Workforce, Realizing America's Potential; Executive Summary (Aug. 2003), National Science Board, National Science Foundation. http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2003/nsb0369/nsb0369_5.pdf The Twentieth Annual Report of the National Science Foundation, 1970. Science Education Support. (NSF 71-1). http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1970/annualreports/ar_1970_sec3.pdf Other Articles Beyond Bio 101: The Transformation of Undergraduate Biology Education, A report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute http://www.hhmi.org/BeyondBio101/ Black, H. (2003). "Needs improvement." The Scientist, August 19 4(1): 20030819-01. Website: http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20030819/01/ Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education, Reports
prepared by the National Academies, NSF, ASEE, ABET and others. Cialdini, R.B. (2000) Influence: Science and Practice, 4th Edition. New Jersey: Allyn & Bacon. Do we need more scientists? The Public Interest (2003), Fall, Issue 53, Michael S. Teitelbaum http://www.thepublicinterest.com/archives/2003fall/article2.html Duch, B., Groh, S., and Allan, D.E. (Eds.), Stylus Publishing (2001). The Power of Problem-Based Learning: A Practical "How-to" for Teaching Undergraduate Courses in Any Discipline. (Reviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 3, 2001). Duit, R., and Treagust, D.F. (2003) Conceptual Change: A Powerful Framework for Improving Science Teaching and Learning. International Journal of Science Education, 25(6), 671-688. Gollub, J.P., Bertenthal, M.W., Labov, J.B., and Curtis, P.C. (Eds.). (2002) Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. Hewson, P.W. (1996) Teaching for Conceptual Change. In D. F. Treagust, R. Duit & B. J. Fraser (Eds.), Improving Teaching and Learning in Science and Mathematics (pp. 131-140). New York: Teachers College Press. Jacobs, D. (2000). "A Chemical Mixture of Methods." Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Ed. Pat Hutchings. Menlo Park, CA: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Learning for the Future: Changing the Culture of Math and Scinece Education to Ensure a Competitive Workforce, Executive Summary (2003), Committee for Economic Development. Mierson, S. and Parikh, A. A. (2000). "Stories From the Field: Problem-Based Learning from a Teacher's and a Student's Perspective." Change, January/February 2000, 21-27. National Research Council. (2003). Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Committee on Recognizing, Evaluating, Rewarding, and Developing Excellence in Teaching of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology, M.A. Fox and N. Hackerman, Editors. Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Website: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10024.html "Penn State Course Teaches Engineering Success Based on Catastrophic Failure." (2001). The Chronicle of Higher Education (47: 41), June 22, 2001, A10. (Accessed online at http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i41/41a01002.htm.) Posner, G.J., Strike, K.A., Hewson, P.W., and Gertzog, W.A. (1982) Accommodation of a Scientific Conception: Toward a Theory of Conceptual Change. Science Education, 66(2), 211-227. Preparing for the 21st Century: The Education Imperative. National Research Council (1997), National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council. http://www.nap.edu/books/NI111004/html/ Redish, E.F. (2003) Teaching Physics: With the Physics Suite. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. Redish, E.F., Saul, J.M., and Steinberg, R.N. (1998) Student Expectations in Introductory Physics. American Journal of Physics, 66, 212-224. Reis, R.M. (1997). Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Press (NY). ISBN 0-7803-1136-1. Copyright Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Splitt, F. (2003). "Systemic Engineering Education Reform: A Grand Challenge." The BENT, Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society, 29-34. http://www.tbp.org/pages/publications/BENTFeatures/SplittSp03.pdf Splitt, F. (2002). "Enginnering Education Reform: A Trilogy: Environmentally Smart Engineering Education: A Brief on a Paradigm in Progress; The Challenge to Change: On Realizing the New Paradigm for Engineering Education; Engineering Education Reform: A Path Forward." International Engineering Consortium, http://www.iec.org, http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/EXTERNAL/Splitt/. Stearns, Tim. "In the natural sciences and engineering: Science education in the US: Training the next generation," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/conference2006/proceedings.htm Supply without Demand, Donald Kennedy, Jim Austin, Kirstie Urquhart, Crispin Taylor. (2004) Science.303: 1105. Technology Literacy: What and Why? (1999), George Bugliarello. NAE/CSMEE. http://www.nae.edu/nae/NAETech.nsf/weblinks/kgrg-58ckn9?opendocument Tobias, S. (1991).They’re Not Dumb, They’re Different: Stalking the Second Tier, American Journal of Physics, Volume 59, pp. 1155-1157 U.S. Science Dominance is the Wrong Issue, Alan I. Leshner. (2004) Science. 306: 197. Yuan, R., Benson, S., Chang, S., & Gulick, D. (2007). The Global University: The Restructuring of Undergraduate Science and Engineering Courses and the Development of International Partnerships, Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal, Volume I:2, pp. 41-49.
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| Web Sites and Survey Sources | ||||
Dyann Schmidel’s interactive educational websites designs, develops, and hosts easily-updateable database-driven websites for K-12 school districts. http://schmidel.com/dyann.cfm The MERLOT: A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments: http://www.merlot.org The PACT Center, Carnegie Mellon University: This site provides information about the Center’s goals, research activities, and links to sites with detailed explanations of these projects. The site also provides an extensive list of publications on tutor development and pedagogy research, cognitive tutor evaluation and implication, and other relevant PACT publications. www.pact.cs.cmu.edu This site is through Clemson University and represents an undergraduate, multi-university research colloquium designed to support undergraduate research projects in the natural/life sciences.http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/SCLife/HHMI%20UR/undergraduate.htm Six-Star Science The American Physiological Society offers a community archive of "learning objects," or instructional materials, for teaching science to K-12 students and physiology to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. The site also solicits contributions, which are reviewed by a committee before inclusion on the archive. http://www.the-aps.org/education/sixstarscience/index.htm
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| Exemplary Programs and Practices | ||||
MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science, and Achievement) homepage. A California-based program that works with disadvantaged students to excel in and graduate with degrees in math and science: http://mesa.ucop.edu/home.html The Pre-Grad program, Stanford University: Offers undergraduates the opportunity to learn more about and prepare for a research career. http://pregrad.stanford.edu
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Developmental Biology Course, University of Colorado at Boulder: Web site provides a format for introducing reading and analysis of primary scientific literature into a large lecture course. http://www.colorado.edu/MCDB/MCDB4650_FA04 Origins of ORDER” (On Recent Discoveries by Emory Researchers): A Freshman Seminar at Emory University in which students learn about cutting edge scientific research going on in laboratories at the university: http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/coll_curr/order/index.html; http://www.news.emory.edu/Releases/lynn1069363205.html; http://www.news.emory.edu/Releases/davidlynn1090849234.html William Wood’s reading and analysis course format http://www.colorado.edu/MCDB/MCDB4650_FA04/
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Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT): An NSF-funded program that focuses on developing a generation of scientists and engineers to become experts at the integrative synthesis and analysis of biological interfaces. http://www.igert.rutgers.edu/researchsamples.php The National Science Foundation-Research Experience for Undergraduates program (NSF-REU) provides opportunities for students interested in research projects and for faculty interested in obtaining support for undergraduate research students through either an REU Supplement or REU Site proposal. http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/reu/start.htm
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