The Editors' Choice section of Science features highlights of the recent literature.

This week, a research paper examining a standardized protocol for collecting data on STEM teaching practices, was highlighted.

Click here for the Editors' Choice summary, and click here to read the original research article.

Science's Education Forum provides a voice for the community interested in the multifaceted world of science education and the science of education.

The most recent Education Forum focuses on a very hot topic:  Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).  How effectively are MOOCs supporting learning?  

The only truth regarding evaluating the attrition rates of STEM majors is that it is extremely complicated to do so.  This week, Science published a News story describing another layer of this complexity.    

Read the entire News article here.

The Editors' Choice section of Science features highlights of the recent literature.

This week, a research paper examining factors that may lead to performance improvements and lower dropout rates for first-generation college students, was highlighted.

When science educators Stephen Harris and Marissa Bellino held weekend field research sessions around New York City for public high-school students, every student in the class would show up, and even kids who performed poorly in other classes did excellent work.

"It was all about giving them the right space to work and getting them excited," said Harris, who explains that the students did actual scientific research, collecting biological samples locally and then subjecting them to microbiological research techniques.

The Editors' Choice section of Science features highlights of the recent literature.  

This week, a research paper examining factors that may encourage female students to pursue careers in the physical sciences, was highlighted.  

Click here for the Editors' Choice summary, and click here to read the original research article.

Students in Valerie Foster's lower-division biology course have a genuine interest in doing their class research projects. Experiencing the raging hormones associated with being in their late teens and early twenties, the students are delighted to explore the subject of human mate preference. Harnessing that keen interest, Foster helps her students to explore published studies on the topic, develop their own hypotheses, conduct an experiment and communicate their results in a scientific paper or poster.