Mathematics Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) have a significant impact on the teaching and learning of mathematics in post-secondary contexts through their work as instructors of record, tutors, graders, and recitation, laboratory, or discussion leaders for mathematics courses. Perhaps more importantly, GSIs are future teachers of mathematics: more than 60 percent...
Current reforms in science education advocate instruction which capitalizes on broad,
integrative understandings of a few underlying concepts. Such recommendations imply
that science teachers already hold integrated conceptualizations and will use such
understandings to guide practice. However, little research exists which delineates the
global content understandings of biology teachers (herein...
Wild life in Oregon : being a stirring recital of actual scenes of daring and peril among the gigantic forests and terrific rapids of the Columbia River (the Mississippi of the Pacific slope). And giving life-like pictures of terrific encounters with savages ... Including a full, fair and reliable history...
Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...