Testing CREATE at Community Colleges: An Examination of Faculty Perspectives and Diverse Student Gains.

ABSTRACT: CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate the hypotheses, Analyze and interpret the data, and Think of the next Experiment) is an innovative pedagogy for teaching science through the intensive analysis of scientific literature. Initiated at the City College of New York, a minority-serving institution, and regionally expanded in the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania area, this methodology has had multiple positive impacts on faculty and students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses. To determine whether the CREATE strategy is effective at the community college (2-yr) level, we prepared 2-yr faculty to use CREATE methodologies and investigated CREATE implementation at community colleges in seven regions of the United States. We used outside evaluation combined with pre/postcou

SUBMITTER: Kenyon KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4803097 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature