Biology Concepts and Investigations 4th Edition by Mariëlle Hoefnagels
ISBN-13: 9780078024207
ISBN-10: 007802420X
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About the Author
Mariëlle Hoefnagels is an associate professor in the Department of Biology and the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches courses in introductory biology, mycology, and science writing. She has received the University of Oklahoma General Education Teaching Award and the Longmire Prize (the Teaching Scholars Award from the College of Arts and Sciences). She has also been awarded honorary memberships in several student honor societies. Dr. Hoefnagels received her BS in environmental science from the University of California at Riverside, her MS in soil science from North Carolina State University, and her PhD in plant pathology from Oregon State University. Her dissertation work focused on the use of bacterial biological control agents to reduce the spread of fungal pathogens on seeds. In addition to authoring Biology: The Essentials and Biology: Concepts and Investigations, her recent publications have focused on creating investigative teaching laboratories and integrating technology into introductory biology classes. She also maintains a blog on teaching nonmajors biology, and she frequently gives presentations on study skills and related topics to student groups across campus.
Preface
Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call
to Action encourages instructors to improve student engagement
and learning in introductory biology courses. The central idea
of the original Vision and Change report—and of the conferences
and reports that followed—is that we need to turn away
from teaching methods that reward students who memorize and
regurgitate superficial knowledge. Instead, we need to emphasize
deeper learning that requires students to understand and apply
course content. This idea is precisely what I have tried to achieve
since I started teaching at the University of Oklahoma in 1997,
and it has been a guiding principle in the creation of my books
and digital material as well.
This edition retains what users have always loved about
this book: the art program, readable narrative, handy study
tips, Investigating
Life essays, and tutorial animations. We
also supply a variety of supplements that make teaching easier,
including eye-catching PowerPoint® lectures with integrated
clicker questions that assess conceptual understanding. As you
examine this new edition, however, I hope you will see an even
stronger emphasis on connections and the “big picture.” Our
most prominent new feature, Survey the Landscape, shows
how each chapter’s content fits into the unit’s overall emphasis.
Students often struggle to connect new topics to what they
have learned previously; Survey the Landscape is designed to
help them keep an eye on the big picture. These new figures,
which appear in each chapter opener, can be integrated with the Pull It Together figure in every chapter’s summary to help
students see the “forest” and the “trees.”
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