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What should students learn about the nature of science and how should we teach it? : applying the "If-and-then-therefore" pattern to develop students' theoretical reasoning abilities in science / Anton E. Lawson -- A science-in-the-making course for nonscience majors : reinforcing the scientific method using an inquiry approach / Deborah A. Tolman -- Investigative learning in undergraduate freshman biology laboratories : a pilot project at Virginia Tech--new roles for students and teachers in an experimental design laboratory / George E. Glasson and Woodrow L. McKenzie -- Use of an investigative semester-length laboratory project in an introductory microbiology course : acquainting students with the research process and the scientific frame of mind / Philip Stukus and John E. Lennox -- Old wine into new bottles : how traditional lab exercises can be converted into investigative ones / G. Douglas Crandall -- Semester-length field investigations in undergraduate animal behavior and ecology courses : making the laboratory experience the linchpin of science education / Jeffrey D. Weld, Christopher M. Rogers, and Stephen B. Heard -- Full application of the scientific method in an undergraduate teaching laboratory : a reality-based approach to experiential student-directed instruction / Alan R. Harker -- Student-designed physiology laboratories : creative instructional alternatives at a resource-poor New England university / Linda L. Tichenor -- Problem-based learning in physics : the power of students teaching students--discovering the interplay between science and today's world / Barbara J. Duch -- A multidimensional approach to teaching biology : injecting analytical thought into the scientific process / Dwight D. Dimaculangan ... [et al.].