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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Susman, Kathleen M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, [2015]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.