Scientific teaching: defining a taxonomy of observable practices.

ABSTRACT: Over the past several decades, numerous reports have been published advocating for changes to undergraduate science education. These national calls inspired the formation of the National Academies Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology (SI), a group of regional workshops to help faculty members learn and implement interactive teaching methods. The SI curriculum promotes a pedagogical framework called Scientific Teaching (ST), which aims to bring the vitality of modern research into the classroom by engaging students in the scientific discovery process and using student data to inform the ongoing development of teaching methods. With the spread of ST, the need emerges to systematically define its components in order to establish a common description for education researcher

SUBMITTER: Couch BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4353084 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature