{"title":"Rethinking the Teaching Portfolio in a Learning-Outcomes Climate","authors":"R. Loeb","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2011.73.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2011.73.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"The teaching portfolio (Seldin, 2004) has gained increasing acceptance beyond the United States as a means of documenting college teaching performance. For examples, see Tenhula (1993; Finland), the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (2002; Ireland), and Cosser (2002; South Africa). Hutchings and Schulman (1999) added \"learning\" to the phrase \"teaching portfolio\" to emphasize the outcomes of teaching in addition to the traditional display of an educator's achievements covered by Boyer's (1990) concepts in the scholarship of teaching. In the United States, the importance of learning outcomes to higher education was brought to the attention of the public through the Spellings Report (U.S. Department of Education, 2006).\u0000\u0000As a faculty member returning to the classroom after more than two decades of service as an academic administrator, I am well aware of how extensive the accountability shift from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning has been, without needing to read the Spellings Report. …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"26 1","pages":"205-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88014799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: The Unified Learning Model: How Motivational, Cognitive, and Neurobiological Sciences Inform Best Teaching Practices","authors":"Greg Diersen","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2011.73.4.13.D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2011.73.4.13.D","url":null,"abstract":"The Unified Learning Model: How Motivational, Cognitive, and Neurobiological Sciences Inform Best Teaching Practices . By Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman and Lynne M. Herr . 2009. Springer (ISBN 9789048132140). 211 pp. Hardcover. $139.00. \u0000\u0000As a teacher, I desire a deep understanding of how students learn, so that I can be effective. As a teacher of science, my desire for understanding includes the researched explanations of learning theories. I am not satisfied by anecdotal reference nor convinced without testing a hypothesis.\u0000\u0000In the field of physics, Einstein searched for a Grand Unified Theory. In biology, cell theory unites the entire field. I sensed similarities trying to be reached with this model. It is not a theory, but a model based on the research in the field. The writers of The Unified Learning Model (ULM) intend their book to satisfy classroom teachers as well as teaching …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"72 1","pages":"249-250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83621434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Science Fair Winners: Junkyard Science","authors":"Andrea Redinger, April Falkosky","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2011.73.4.13.B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2011.73.4.13.B","url":null,"abstract":"Science Fair Winners: Junkyard Science . By Karen Romano Young . Illustrated by David Goldin. 2010. The National Geographic Society (ISBN 9781426306914). 80 pp. Paperback. $12.95. \u0000\u0000This National Geographic for Kids book contains 20 experiments for students to conduct that \"let you work with things that are broken, being thrown out, being recycled, rotting or otherwise going to waste, and to get …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"29 1","pages":"248-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90609833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who First Reported a Genetic Disease","authors":"W. Stansfield","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2011.73.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2011.73.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"I enjoyed reading the article by Heron et al. (2010) in ABT last September. On page 424, the authors state that \"Sickle cell disease was the first disease to be recognized as having a genetic basis, and thus linked phenotype to genotype (Weatherall & Clegg, 2001).\" But according to Darnell et al. (1990: p. 9), the first relation between a …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"155 1","pages":"133-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79825489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EVOLUTION: DARWINDarwin in Galápagos: Footsteps to a New World. By K. Thalia Grant and Gregory B. Estes . 2009. Princeton University Press (ISBN 9780691142104). xi + 362 pp., 64 plates, 4 maps. Hardcover. $29.95.","authors":"Randy Moore","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2011.73.2.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2011.73.2.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"13 1","pages":"116-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2011-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77260919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"READING BOOKS FOR CHILDRENAnimals and Habitats of the United States. By Jeff Corwin . 2009. Puffin Books (ISBN 9780142414057). 126 pp. Paperback. $9.99. Ages 8–12.","authors":"S. Durfee","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2011.73.1.11.D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2011.73.1.11.D","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"19 1","pages":"52-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80890583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"READING BOOKS FOR CHILDREN","authors":"S. Durfee","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2011.73.1.11.C","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2011.73.1.11.C","url":null,"abstract":"Snakes and The Extraordinary Everglades (All Aboard Reading Series) . By Jeff Corwin . 2009, 2010. Grosset & Dunlap (ISBN 9780448451770, 9780448451763). 48 pp. Paperback. $$3.99. Ages 6––8. With over 40 photographs and cool facts about snakes, Corwin's contributions to the ““All Aboard Reading”” series are to be applauded. In Snakes , independent readers aged 6––8 can drift from Spitting Cobras to Black Mambas, learning about adaptations …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"84 1","pages":"52-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87106676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE","authors":"D. Allchin","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2011.73.1.11.B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2011.73.1.11.B","url":null,"abstract":"Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming . By Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway . 2010. Bloomsbury Press, New York (ISBN 7981596916104). 355 pp. Hardcover. $$27.00. Michael Behe, William Demski, Duane Gish –– biology teachers often know these names (notorious creationists). But what about Fred Seitz, Fred Singer, Robert Jastrow, Bill Nierenberg, or Steve Milloy? These less widely known individuals posed equal threats to good science. In their eye-opening book, historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway detail how these individuals (and others) deliberately orchestrated public skepticism about scientific consensus on tobacco, nuclear winter, acid rain, the ozone hole, second-hand smoke, global warming, and DDT. Time and time again, the same cast of characters effectively stalled timely political action. These critics were scientists, but scientists speaking outside their …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"17 1","pages":"51-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77894258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviour. By Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton . 2010. University of California Press. (ISBN 9780520265370). 312 pages. Hardcover. $39.95","authors":"P. Waller","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2010.72.9.13.B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2010.72.9.13.B","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"37 1","pages":"585-586"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74800810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}