Carello, C. A.*; Scheunemann, T. L.; Heitmann, D. M.: How body size affects the metabolic efficiency and lower limb joint kinematics of quail running on an incline The majority of studies dealing with bipedal locomotion on varying surface grades have focused on humans. Thus, little is known about the relationship between body mass and efficiency […]

HOYT, D.F.*; WICKLER, S.J.; COGGER, E.A.; GOEHRING, M.E: A Reexamination Of The Trot-Gallop Transition: Insights From The Study Of Locomotion On An Incline. Previous workers concluded that forces trigger the trot-gallop (T-G) transition because it occurred at a lower speed when ponies carried a load and, at the T-G speed, the metabolic rate was higher […]

HOESE , W. J.; WEISS, S. L.: The Relationship Between Student Engagement and Student Performance in an Introductory Biology Course that Emphasizes Active Learning We investigated the relationship between student engagement and performance in college introductory biology. We hypothesized that students who are more actively engaged would perform better than those students who were not […]

OSBORN, D.A.; PEARSE, J.S.; ROE, C.A.; HEFFINGTON, J.B.; KEEDY, K.D.: Seymour Intertidal Monitoring Program We are developing site-specific protocols of the rocky intertidal of central California that can be used by high school students and other volunteer groups for long-term monitoring. Vertical transects establish zonation patterns that would change as sea level changes. Abundance and […]

WORCESTER, Suzanne E.*; WOOD, Swarup E.; PERRY, Ren�e R.; KIBAK, Henrik: Retaining Students In Biology: Enriching Introductory Courses With Ecological Restoration Projects Many students interested in becoming biologists become discouraged by core science courses. These courses present a large amount of detailed content that appears to have no relevance to students’ interests. In addition introductory […]

BOUDRIAS, Michel A. *; BOLENDER, James P.: Field Reseach at the Core of an Interdisciplinary Science Course An Honors course called “Pollution in the Sand” was designed to integrate a student-directed research project into an upper division interdisciplinary science course. Many of the interdisciplinary science courses offered within the Honors Program at USD provide our […]

RYAN, W.L.: Experimental Design in the Teaching Lab: Prey Density and Feeding Stimuli in the Sea Anemone Aiptasia The current trend in science education is to enhance the experience of students by providing opportunities for scientific inquiry. The project reported here expanded this by providing a series of related questions for students to analyze as […]

WHEATLY, M.G.*; WOOD, T.: DNA Isolation: Making an Introductory Biology Lab Universally Accessible. Creating Laboratory Access for Science Students (The CLASS Project) is an NSF-funded initiative to train educators in the thought processes that are required to develop lab exercises and field trips that are universally accessible. In an attempt to reach a broader audience, […]

HOUSEMAN, J.G.; Univ. of Ottawa: Does the use of new technologies enhance learning in undergraduate zoology? Over the past 10 years I have used a variety of different computer-based tools in the lecture and laboratory components of my Zoology and Invertebrate Zoology courses. These include: e-mail discussion groups, digital presentations and lab materials, course web […]

CYR, R.J.; WOODWARD, D.M.; Penn State; Penn State: Assessing Undergraduate Learning in a Large Web-Based Biology Course A balanced, multi-variant experimental design was used to test the hypothesis that interactive web-based tutorials can replace traditional introductory biology lectures in a large, 800-student course. Student performance on multiple-choice exams was comparable between lecture- and web-learners and […]