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View Resource Evaluating the Impact of TIEE Activities on Student Learning: Lessons for the Instructor

The author of this TIEE Research Paper assessed the use of student-active activities to teach students to use the scientific method and improve their understanding of basic ecological concepts. The author used TIEE exercises and student-active methods such as turn-to-your-neighbor and jigsaw activities to engage her students. The study was conducted in a sophomore level ecology course. Although...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

View Resource The TIEE Research Practitioners Project: Faculty Investigating Active Teaching and Student Learning

This article published in Volume 5 of TIEE describes the TIEE Research Practitioners Project. For the project, fifteen ecology, environmental science, and biology faculty conducted research on the effectiveness of student-active teaching methods in their classrooms, with the goal of improving their teaching practice in a manner that would be recognized as scholarly work. The article...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

View Resource Use of an Inquiry-based Approach to Teaching Experimental Design Concepts in a General Ecology Course

The author of this TIEE Research Paper assessed student understanding of experimental design at the beginning and again at the end of a general ecology course in order to understand the impact of guided inquiry activities. Students participated in a series of labs in which they had increasing levels of responsibility for designing experiments or observational studies. Concepts of experimental...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

View Resource Evaluating Course Impact on Student Environmental Values in Undergraduate Ecology with a Novel Survey Instrument

The authors of this TIEE Research Paper investigated the effect their teaching had on the environmental attitudes and values of undergraduate students. Specifically, they wanted to know if student-active teaching approaches had an effect on attitude changes and whether or not those attitude changes were accompanied by a change in understanding of the underlying ecological principles. They used...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

View Resource Data-rich Case Studies Improve Students' Abilities to Interpret Graphs in a Large Non-majors Course

The authors of this TIEE Research Paper evaluated the use of data-intensive case studies and small group discussion on students' quantitative abilities in a large environmental science lecture course. Students were asked to interpret graphs in pre- and post-course assessments. Most students (>80%) thought they did well on the initial assessment, although faculty evaluators scored about half as...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

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