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Exploring the Environment Teacher Pages: Problem-Based Learning part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This subsite of Exploring the Environment Teacher Pages provides a detailed description of problem-based learning as well as advice on how to teach using problem-based learning. The page highlights ...Subject: Education
Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is the final report of the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. It provides detailed recommendations for how to link the undergraduate experience at research ...
First-Year Students 'Go Beyond' with Integrative Inquiry into Abrupt Change part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In a first-year seminar on abrupt change in climate and human networks, the author analyzed student writing for integrative science learning that 'goes beyond'. Her research maps what students gain ...Subject: Education
Motivating Students part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This chapter from the book Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis is a great place to start for ideas and tips about increasing student motivation in your classes. The author presents a handy ...Subject: Education
Motivation: A General Overview of Theories part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This chapter in an e-book provides a brief summary of motivational theories that is written for educators. Topics include goals, self-efficacy, attribution theory, self-regulation and volition, and ...Subject: Education
Fieldwork Bibliography part of SERC Web Resource Collection
An annotated bibliography from the Geography Discipline Network (affiliated with GEES in the UK) on learning in the field. Readers are invited to suggest additions to the bibliography.
Teaching with Clickers part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This posting on the Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List is an excerpt from a longer article, Teaching with Clickers, by Erping Zhu, coordinator of instructional technology at the Center for Research on ...Subject: Education
Teaching Metacognition part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This webpage features resources associated with the 2008 Educause Learning Initiative annual meeting session on Teaching Metacognition. It includes links to Marsha Lovett's powerpoint slides and a ...Subject: Education
Overview of Learning And Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The LASSI is a 10-scale, 80-item assessment of students' awareness about and use of learning and study strategies related to skill, will and self-regulation components of strategic learning. The ...Subject: Education
Metacognition: Study Strategies, Monitoring, and Motivation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The author briefly reviews metacognition and its connections with study strategies, self-monitoring, and motivation. He then offers examples of specific strategies instructors can teach students to ...Subject: Education


