Sure, students in the classroom have to remember facts, but they also have to apply them. Some research efforts to enhance learning zero in on methods to strengthen memory and recall, while others ...

Andersen’s ongoing research — as reflected in her doctoral dissertation on the innovative approach to teaching STEM — has not gone unnoticed. Recently, she was chosen to receive a prestigious national ...

A dozen college students are saying the word "pat" and jotting down notes about the sounds being made. "Puh - AH - tt" Pay attention to the shapes your mouths make as you pronounce the word, instructs ...

As a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Carl Wieman could probably get away with being a mediocre teacher. Yet he’s devoted much of his career to improving the ways colleges and universities teach science ...

Teachers must be able to combine several important kinds of knowledge in order to successfully implement classroom science instruction for concept learning. These include knowledge of science content, ...

This grades 9-12 Life Science license will prepare you to teach science courses to high school students. It can be coupled with a grades 5-8 General Science License. Standards of safety and chemical ...

Starting this fall, researchers from Western Washington University will study local elementary school math and science teaching methods in an attempt to figure out if specialists – those who teach ...

Intel volunteer engineer Ryan Warr gives suggestions to West Union Elementary students building a suspension bridge out of classmates. Warr and parent Intel volunteer Keisha Thomas (in background) ...

As scientists, one would think that we would approach all areas of our careers using the same evidence-based decision making that we use in our research. However, this is often not the case when it ...

A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

The proper teaching of science is probably the greatest problem before American secondary education. Yet the schools must not only teach more physics and chemistry, but should also face the issue of ...

PROF. J. KENNER, of the Manchester College of Technology, recently opened a discussion on the “Historical Method in Teaching Science” at a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.