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mmacphe

Organizing your thoughts in scientific writing - iterative writing with feedback is a p... - 3 views

While I was an undergraduate I did an honours type project for which I had to produce a paper modelled like a scientific journal article. A postdoc of the professor I was working under read over on...

knowledge organizations practice and feedback integrative biology

started by mmacphe on 21 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
hpassmo

Can strategic learning be mitigated by eliminating course grades? - 6 views

I attended a (primary and secondary) school with no grades and it was great! Since the classes were small teachers evaluated each student on their progress at the end of each term. At the end of th...

affective domain

trmartins

Practice and feedback & classroom climate in calculus - 4 views

When I was an undergrad, I had to take a calculus class. It was not difficult for me, but I can't forget what the professor said in class that I thought was amazing and inspired me in other courses...

practice and feedback climate

started by trmartins on 14 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
cmtheusch

NIH-mandated Individual Development Plans - 6 views

I am fascinated by the recent move by the NIH to require all graduate students and postdoctoral researchers funded by grants from the NIH (or funded by their PI's NIH grant) to explicitly outline t...

Learning objectives

started by cmtheusch on 14 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
pacross79

Personal Attention - 0 views

As an adult re-entry student in math at community college an instructor played an important role in my journey through school. She found a way to get through to me that challenged me and pushed me ...

Math- Affective Domain

started by pacross79 on 14 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
daninguelph

Understanding symbols and variables - 0 views

In my third year Quantum Chemistry course, I recall a learning moment. The instructor was gifted a helping us see through the complex mathematics. A whole new set of symbols are introduced - many...

knowledge organizations chemistry

started by daninguelph on 14 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
mchan5

Teaching DNA toplogy through practice. - 3 views

one of the hardest concepts in cell biology for undergrads is understanding DNA topology. How a right handed twist can become a left handed interwound writhe, then taken up by a toroidal writhe whe...

Practice and Feedback Molecular Biology DNA Topology

started by mchan5 on 13 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
gkbenn

Learning bioinformatics programming through peer instruction in a supportive atmosphere - 0 views

I took a graduate-level bioinformatics course at UC Davis, which had a lab component in which we learned basic Unix and Perl programming skills. This was a great lab, which incorporated aspects of ...

started by gkbenn on 12 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
mmavros

The big A-HA moment: Chemistry is governed by physical principles - 4 views

As a young undergraduate taking my introductory chemistry and sophomore organic chemistry courses, I was really good at answering "how" chemical change happened, but I was really bad at answering t...

knowledge organizations chemistry physics

started by mmavros on 12 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
juanmanfredi

95% transpiration and 5% inspiration - 7 views

As a STEM learner I relied heavily on creating organizational charts of the subject at hand, plus a fair amount of memorization. Since I was an undergraduate in a very different environment (Spain...

mathematics knowledge organizations practice and feedback

started by juanmanfredi on 12 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
jhbiol

Understanding biology through chemistry - 5 views

I can remember having almost exactly the same issue with transcription and translation. I couldn't get how all these things just seem to randomly "know" how to connect with the right other thing. ...

knowledge organizations prior knowledge

britmoss

peer review in the form of mock grant review panels - 2 views

As a young graduate student learning to write fellowship proposals, I took a course in which the main assignment was to write a research proposal. This involved several rounds of peer-review and pr...

practice and feedback biology

started by britmoss on 12 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
sherrigraves

Practice and feedback in experimental design - 5 views

One of the best courses I had in ecology was an Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) tropical ecology field course in Costa Rica. While being in this beautiful country didn't hurt, it was the s...

practice and feedback biology

started by sherrigraves on 12 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
jacobika

Angular momentum - 4 views

When I was taking the first semester of calculus-based physics, I remember having an "ah-ha" moment when I made the connection between angular momentum and regular linear momentum. The instructor ...

knowledge organizations chemistry

started by jacobika on 12 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
kristinfischer

Making more efficient arms - 7 views

I had a degree in Biology and took my first engineering course, Intro to BME. At the first biomechanics lecture, our professor put up a picture of an arm bent at a right angle holding a suspended w...

prior knowledge

started by kristinfischer on 08 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
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alexszatmary

Moments and doors - 3 views

The first difficult block I remember getting in college was understanding moments in statics. What was counterintuitive for me is that moments (or torques) are represented as vectors perpendicular ...

practice and feedback affective domain engineering

started by alexszatmary on 11 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
jesskutz

Affective domain- Kinesiology - 2 views

During my junior year I took a 400 level course in Kinesiology that highlighted "health prescription". This was a class of about 100 students and there were multiple subsections of the class for la...

affective domain

started by jesskutz on 09 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
Derek Bruff

Active Learning Leads to Higher Grades and Fewer Failing Students in Science, Math, and... - 9 views

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    "The authors found that 34% of students failed their course under traditional lecturing, compared to 22% of students under active learning."
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