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Innovative techniques for large-group instruction : an NSTA Press journals collection.

Size does matter. When you're faced with a class of 50, 150, or even 250 college students, it's tough to head off boredom - much less promote higher-order thinking and inquiry skills. But it's not impossible, thanks to the professor-tested techniques in this collection of 14 articles...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Science Teachers Association
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Arlington, Va. : NSTA Press, ©2002.
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  • How do college students best learn science: an assessment of popular teaching styles and their effectiveness / William H. Leonard
  • Are we cultivating "couch potatoes" in our college science lectures? / Thomas R. Lord
  • Getting there from here: making the transition from traditional teaching practices to those that are student centered / M.W. Caprio and Lynda B. Micikas
  • Constructing knowledge in the lecture hall / Daniel J. Klionsky
  • Active learning in the lecture hall / Elaine J. Anderson
  • The lecture facilitator: sorcerer's apprentice / Donald P. French and Connie P. Russell
  • Facilitating the reading/discussion connection in the interactive classroom / Beverly C. Pestel
  • A peer-reviewed research assignment for large classes / LaRhee Henderson and Charisse Buising
  • An interactive lecture notebook: twelve ways to improve students' grades / John E. Stencel
  • Using e-mail to improve communication in the introductory science classroom / Kathryn Hedges and Barbara Mania-Farnell
  • Using internet class notes and PowerPoint in the physical geology lecture / Erwin J. Mantei
  • Creating direct channels of communication: fostering interaction with e-mail and in-class notes / Gili Marbach-Ad and Phillip G. Sokolove
  • Using action research to bring the large class down to size / Jeffrey P. Adams and Timothy F. Slater
  • Gauging students' learning in the classroom: an assessment tool to help refine instructors' teaching techniques / Judith E. Heady.