What is it about?
The authors embedded reading, writing, and information literacy elements into a basic Biology course to enhance understanding, learning, and performance.
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Why is it important?
This biology course was a "bottleneck" course with a high failure rate. Our efforts to embed these literacies into the course improved reading comprehension, the ability to write objectively and with reason, and research information about the subject matter.
Perspectives
My observation of remediation generally is that efforts are focused on math and writing, both of which are needed, but neither of which addresses key elements such as reading comprehension and information literacy. Without these latter two elements, writing in particular is difficult to improve.
Ms Aline Soules
California State University, East Bay
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This page is a summary of: Embedding Multiple Literacies into STEM Curricula, College Teaching, October 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/87567555.2014.935699.
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