NFW Participant Teaching Resources

Research Supporting Scientific Teaching/Research-Based Instructional Strategies

Books

• Teach Better, Save Time, and Have More Fun (Beuning, Besson, and Snyder)
• Scientific Teaching (Handelsman et al.)
• How Learning Works (Ambrose et al.)
• Teaching First-Year College Students (Erickson, Peters, and Strommer)
• Expanding the CURE Model (Heemstra and Waterman)

Suggested Articles

• Anatomy of STEM Teaching in North American Universities (Stains, 2018)
• Thriving in Academe (Horii, 2018)
• Changing the Culture of Science Education at Research Universities (Anderson et al., 2011)
• Reducing the Gender Achievement Gap in College Science (Miyake et al., 2010)
• Teaching More by Lecturing Less (Knight and Wood, 2005)
• Scientific Teaching (Handelsman, 2004)
• Challenge Your Teaching (Feig, 2004)

Reports

• Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science and Engineering (NRC, 2015)
• PCAST Report on Undergraduate STEM Education (OSTP, 2012)
• Vision and Change (NSF and AAAS, 2011)
• Bio2010 (NAS, 2003)

Specific Strategies for Active-Learning Classrooms

• Just-in-Time Teaching (JITT)
• Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)
• Peer-Instruction
• Think-Pair-Share
• Selective Use of the Primary Literature Transforms the Classroom into a Virtual Laboratory
• Case Studies and Problem-Based Learning:
  • RSC Education Site for PBL
  • PBL Clearinghouse at University of Delaware
  • National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at University of Buffalo

Assessment Techniques

• List of 50 Classroom Assessment Techniques (Angelo and Cross)
  
• Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG)
• Three-Dimensional Learning Assessment Protocol
• Teaching with Rubrics (Andrade, College Teaching, 53(1):27-30, 2005).

Web Resources

• Geosciences Teaching and Learning website
• Science Magazine's Education Forum
• VIPEr (resources for teaching inorganic chemistry)
• OrganicERs (resources for teaching organic chemistry)
• ChemEdX
• Open Chemistry (molecular visualization software platforms)
• PHeT Physics Education at University of Colorado, Boulder
• Greenbowe Simulations
• ChemConnections
• Pittsburgh Quantum Repository
• Marilyne Stains' website (education resources for chemistry professors)
• Transparency in Learning and Teaching

Disclaimer: The ideas and opinions contained in the resources referenced on these pages do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the American Chemical Society.