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2003 Resource List

For copies of presentations made at the 2003 Summer Institute, please see the 2003 overview and agenda. All available presentations may be downloaded from the agenda, usually as PowerPoint files.



This rest of this document contains articles, books, brochures, etc. distributed at the 2003 Summer Institute or recommended by participants, URLs mentioned in talks, etc. It is not meant to be an exhaustive or complete list of resources relevant to undergraduate biology education.


From Liz Armstrong:

Armstrong, Elizabeth G., Jennifer Doyle, and Nancy L. Bennett. (2003). Transformative Professional Development of Physicians as Educators: Assessment of a Model. Academic Medicine 78(7, July): 702-708.

Bowe, Constance M., Lisa Lahey, Elizabeth Armstrong, and Robert Kegan. (2003). Questioning the 'big assumptions'. Part I: addressing personal contradictions that impede professional development. Medical Education 37: 715-722.

Bowe, Constance M., Lisa Lahey, Robert Kegan, and Elizabeth Armstrong. (2003). Questioning the 'big assumptions'. Part II: recognizing organizational contradictions that impede institutional change. Medical Education 37: 723-733.

Friedrich, M.J. (2002). Harvard Macy Institute Helps Physicians Become Better Educators and Change Agents. Journal of the American Medical Association 287(24, June 26): 3197-3199.

Light, Richard J. (2001). Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.



From Bob Beichner:

Beichner, Robert J. (1994). Testing student interpretation of kinematics graphs. American Journal of Physics 62(8, August): 750-755.

Dancy, Melissa H., and Robert J. Beichner. (2002). But Are They Learning? Getting Started in Classroom Evaluation. Cell Biology Education 1(3, Fall): 87-94. [http://www.cellbioed.org/articles/vol1no3/article.cfm?articleID=20]

Hake, Richard R. (1999). REDCUBE: Research, Development, and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Web-Guide for Non-Biologists. [http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~redcube/]

Hake, Richard. (2002). Lessons from the physics education reform effort. Conservation Ecology 5(2): 28. [http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss2/art28/]



From Amy Chang:

Microbiology Education (Amy Cheng Vollmer and Jeffrey Byrd, Co-Chairs, Editorial Board). Published by the American Society of Microbiology. ISSN 1542-8818. [http://www.microbelibrary.org/Journal/page4.htm]



From Richard Cyr:

http://www.bio.psu.edu/operon/courses/summer2003/biol110/homepage



From Diane Ebert-May:

Ebert-May, Diane, Janet Batzli, and Heejun Lim. (2003). Disciplinary Research Strategies for Assessment of Learning. Bioscience in press.

http://www.first2.org/

http://ctools.msu.edu/ – Web-based concept mapping



From Adam Fagen:

Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the ResearchUniversity. (1998). Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities. [http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf/]

Hake, Richard R. (1998). Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses. American Journal of Physics 66(1, January): 64-74.

Lightman, Alan, and Philip Sadler. (1993). Teacher predictions versus actual student gains. The Physics Teacher 31(3, March): 162-167.

Mazur, Eric. (1997). Peer Instruction: A User's Manual. Upper Saddler River, NJ: Prentice Hall. [This book describes the pedagogy and has resources for physics; see also Clark Landis et al.'s Chemistry ConcepTests: A Pathway to Interactive Classrooms (2001, Prentice Hall) and Paul Green's Peer Instruction for Astronomy (2003, Prentice Hall).]

Nazario, Gladys M., Patricia A. Burrowes, and Julio Rodríguez. (2002). Persisting Misconceptions: Using Pre- and Post-Tests to Identify Biological Misconceptions. Journal of College Science Teaching 31(5, February): 292-296.

Novak, Gregor M., Evelyn T. Patterson, Andrew D. Garvin, and Wolfgang Christian. (1999). Just-in-Time Teaching: Blending Active Learning with Web Technology. Upper Saddler River, NJ: Prentice Hall. [http://www.jitt.org/]

Tobias, Sheila. (1992). Revitalizing Undergraduate Science: Why Some Things Work and Most Don't. Tucson, AZ: Research Corporation.

Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG). College Level One (CL-1) Team, National Institute for Science Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. [http://www.flaguide.org/]



From Kathy Frame:

Packet of information from The Biotechnology Institute including brochure, Your World: Biotechnology & You magazine and Teacher's Guide, information about the Minority and Indigenous Fellows Program. [http://www.BiotechInstitute.org/]



From Michael Gaines:

Gaines, Michael, Beth Gaydos, and Joseph Griswold. Module 8: Biology is a Science.



From Ron Hoy:

http://www.crawdad.cornell.edu/



From John Jungck:

BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium. (2002). BioQUEST Library VI. Harcourt Academic Press. [http://www.harcourt-ap.com/]

The BioQUEST Library (John R. Jungck, ed.) [http://bioquest.org/ ]

BioQUEST Notes newsletter (Darcy K. Wyer, managing editor).

Black, Harvey. (2002). "Real World" Evolutionary Biology: A Pragmatic Quest – Interview with BioQUEST's John Jungck. Principled Practice in Mathematics & Science Education (Wisconsin Center for Education Research) 5(1, Winter): 2-3. [http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ncisla/publications/newsletters/winter02.pdf] [And other articles about evolutionary biology instruction]

Hickey, Daniel T., Ann C. H. Kindfield, Paul Horwitz, and Mary Ann T. Christie (a colleague of Linda Grisham). (2003). Integrating Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Evaluation in a Technology-Supported Genetics Learning Environment. American Educational Research Journal 40(Spring): 495-538.

Jungck, John R. (1997). Ten Equations that Changed Biology: Mathematics in Problem-Solving Biology Curricula. Bioscene 23(1, May): 11-36.



From Jack Kampmeier:

Gosser, David K., Mark S. Cracolice, J.A. Kampmeier, Vicki Roth, Victor S. Strozak, and PratibhaVarma-Nelson. (2001). Peer-Led Team Learning: A Guidebook (Prentice Hall Series in Educational Innovation). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Sarquis, Jerry L., Linda J. Dixon, David K. Gosser, Jack A. Kampmeier, Vicki Roth, Victor S. Strozak, and PratibhaVarma-Nelson. (2001). "The Workshop Project: Peer-Led Team Learning in Chemistry." Chapter 26 in Student-Assisted Teaching: A Guide to Faculty-Student Teamwork (Judith E. Miller, James E. Groccia, and Marilyn S. Miller, eds.) Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, Inc. Pages 150-155.

The Workshop Project Newsletter – Progressions: Peer-Led Team Learning (David Gosser, ed.). [http://www.pltl.org/]

http://www.pltl.org/



From Dan Klionsky:

Klionsky, Daniel J. (1998). A Cooperative Learning Approach to Teaching Introductory Biology. Journal of College Science Teaching 27(5, March/April): 334-338.

Klionsky, Daniel J. (2001). Constructing Knowledge in the Lecture Hall. Journal of College Science Teaching (December): 246-251.

Klionsky, Daniel J., and John J. Tomashek. (1999). An Interactive Exercise To Learn Eukaryotic Cell Structure & Organelle Function. American Biology Teacher 61(7, September): 539-542.



From Michael Klymkowsky:

Biofundamentals: An interactive introductory course in molecular & cellular biology [brochure]

Bioliteracy Project and the Biology Concept Inventory: http://Bioliteracy.net/

http://knowledgefactor.net/

http://virtuallaboratory.net/

http://www.colorado.edu/MCDB/MCDB1111/
Use login: guest / guest



From Jay Labov:

National Research Council. (2003). Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Committee on Recognizing, Evaluating, Rewarding, and Developing Excellence in Teaching of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology, M.A. Fox and N. Hackerman, Editors. Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. [http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10024.html]



From Pat Pukkila:

Pukkila, Patricia J. (2003). Introducing Student Inquiry in Large Introductory Genetics Classes. Genetics 166(January), 11-18.

Abstracts: Research in the Capital – An undergraduate research symposium for the NC General Assembly, April 22, 2003.

Helping students to learn through research [brochure]. Office of Undergraduate Research, College of Arts & Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [http://www.unc.edu/depts/our]

Pukkila, Patricia J. (2001). Women in Cell Biology: PostDocs Learn to Manage Others. The ASCB Newsletter 24(8, August): 21-23.



From Lillian Tong:

Center for Biology Education[brochure], University of Wisconsin-Madison. [http://www.wisc.edu/cbe/]



From Paul Williams:

Ideas for Using Wisconsin Fast Plants in Your Classroom! Wisconsin Fast Plants Program, University of Wisconsin–Madison. [http://www.fastplants.org/]



From Bill Wood:

Wood, William B. (2003). Inquiry-Based Undergraduate Teaching in the Life Sciences at Large Research Universities: A Perspective on the Boyer Commission Report. Cell Biology Education 2(2, Summer): 112-116. [http://www.cellbioed.org/articles/vol2no2/article.cfm?articleID=57]



From Robin Wright:

Wright, Robin, and James Boggs. (2002). Learning Cell Biology as a Team: A Project-Based Approach to Upper-Division Cell Biology. Cell Biology Education 1(4, Winter): 145-153. [http://www.cellbioed.org/articles/vol1no4/article.cfm?articleID=33]



Thanks to someone (not sure who provided them):

Cross, K. Patricia, and Mimi Harris Steadman. (1996). Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. [Chapter 1: Introduction to Classroom Research provided]

Felder, Richard M., and Rebecca Brent. (1994). Cooperative Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls, and Payoffs. ERIC Document Reproduction Service Report ED 377038. [http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/Coopreport.html]

Paulson, Donald R., and Jennifer L. Faust. Active Learning For The College Classroom. [http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/chem/chem2/Active/index.htm]

Pollock, Roy V.H. (1989). Curriculum Reform: Are You Steering the Ship or Rearranging the Deck Chairs? INTERVET 24(4, Jan/Feb): 8-14.

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