CUES: Connecting Undergraduates to the Enterprise of Science

Who We Are and What We Do CUES (Connecting Undergraduates to the Enterprise of Science) looks to incorporate inquiry into undergraduate science laboratories in three ways:

1. By transforming cookbook laboratories into the CUES mini-journal format that explicitly models scientific literature.
2. By carrying out professional development for faculty and future faculty members at our university and partner institutions, and
3. By conducting research and evaluation about teaching and learning in CUES classrooms. The ultimate goal is to improve student understanding of science through improving the introductory science experience.

We present laboratories that model the activities of scientists: reading the professional literature, generating new hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting and analyzing data, and writing up findings.

This website provides both a guidebook for instructors of undergraduate science courses to use to construct their own inquiry-based labs, as well as a set of field tested labs and assessments.

Support for CUES has come from the National Science Foundation through grant DUE 0618817

This page and project are dedicated to the memory of Sandra K. Abell, Curator's Professor of Science Education at the University of Missouri. Throughout her career, Sandi brought science educators and working scientists together. We miss her terribly.

"Lector, suus monumentum requiris, circumspice"

Last Updated on Friday, 10 September 2010 15:29