Four hundred years have passed since Galileo helped prove that the Earth orbits the Sun once a year. But today more than one-third of adult Americans do not know this basic science concept. In a ...

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Introductory science classes typically require students to memorize facts, rather than teaching them the basis of scientific thinking. Maskot via Getty Images To graduate with a science major, college ...

UC Santa Cruz will undertake an ambitious program to revamp its introductory courses in biology, chemistry, and physics, replacing lectures with a more active learning approach. Funded by a $1.5 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook I work as a learning assistant for Physics 140, the introduction to mechanics course, and I often ...

On Thursday, February 24, the Department of Computer Science (CS) announced that it will retire its three introductory sequences: the CS 120s, CS 150s, and CS 160s. These sequences will be replaced by ...

This quarter, Stanford’s Computer Science Department will implement “pair programming” in the introductory computer science (CS) courses CS 106A: Programming Methodology and CS 106B: Programming ...

In the past 10 years an active-learning course, called Active Physics, has gradually displaced lecture-based introductory course in physics at an American university. But are active-learning ...

Earlier this year, University of Colorado Boulder Associate Professor Amy Palmer designed a new introductory chemistry course to address the known deficiencies of STEM (science, technology, ...

A new national grant at Union College is trying to increase diversity among scientists by improving introductory college science classes, because that’s when most students drop out of STEM Union ...

The traditional focus of a science major curriculum at Tufts University has been on the provision of a foundation in the fundamental precepts of a scientific discipline. Introductory courses are ...