Discovery-based learning in the life sciences /
For nearly a decade, scientists, educators and policy makers have issued a call to college biology professors to transform undergraduate life sciences education. As a gateway science for many undergraduate students, biology courses are crucial to addressing many of the challenges we face, such as cl...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley Blackwell,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- The new life sciences
- Changing goals and outcomes in introductory life science course laboratories
- Incorporating discovery-based laboratory experiences at the introductory level
- The constraints and realities of discovery-based laboratories
- A model introductory biology course
- Two model scenarios for an intermediate-level life science course
- Assessments and why they are important
- Fully incorporating vision and change.