부산대학교 도서관

A special issue of research into science teaching/learning environments in higher education is presented. Articles discuss whether integrated study of petrified wood could serve as a portal to improved student geobiological understanding of fossilization, geologic time, and evolution; the relationship of freshmen's physics achievement and their related affective characteristics; the development and application of affective assessment in an upper-level cell biology course; a theoretical model of nonscience majors' motivation to learn science; the effects of a computer-simulated prelab on students' cognitive focus during a chemistry laboratory exercise; effects of epistemological theories on students' laboratory practice; effects of participation by second-semester college general chemistry students in an extended, open-inquiry laboratory investigation; the science experiences of 15 successful women of color over the course of their undergraduate and graduate studies in science and into science-related careers; and the processes of change in thinking as a means of learning about the professional development of two science teacher educators.