The AAAS 2061 Project website has plenty of useful tools, including teaching guides for special topics and assessment tools. After free registration one can browse the results of a wide study performed with middle- and high-school students to find out what they know and what their misconceptions are on different topics. I wonder how many of those continue through college...
Identity and science
"A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and work of Barbara McClintock", by Evelyn Fox Keller, W.H. Freeman, 1983 deals with identity (specifically gender) affecting scientific approaches
Stereotype threat
Claude M. Steele - Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (Issues of Our Time)
WANTED: readings on science for pedestrians
I am creating a new page to make a compilation of interesting scientific readings that non scientists can enjoy. Join us and leave your suggestions in the comments of the first post. I will try to get them organized on the new tab of the blog.
I am just leaving here the first one: Bad Science - Ben Goldacre's column
Trained postdocs: a tool to improve science learning
Benedict Carey reflects on Improving the Science of Teaching Science (The New York Times) based on the work lead by Carl Wieman published in Science.
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