LibGuides: Harold Washington College Faculty Publications: Articles by HWC Faculty

STEM Articles by HWC Faculty

Adams, G., Cherif, A., Dunning, J., Movahedzadeh, F. (2015), "What if Fossils Are Discovered On The Planet Mars? Collection of Related Learning Activities for Promoting Active Learning", Pinnacle Educational Research & Development ISSN: 2360-9494, Vol. 3
Berchiolli, Barbara, et al. “Assessing Student Success in a Project-Based Learning Biology Course at a Community College.” American Biology Teacher (University of California Press), vol. 80, no. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 6–10. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1525/abt.2018.80.1
Bivens, K. M. (2017). Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine, by Colleen Derkatch. Technical Communication Quarterly, 26(2), 212. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2017.1297133
Bivens, K. M. (2019). Constructing a Cultural Logic From a Swedish Context. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 49(4), 411–432. doi:10.1177/0047281619871218
Bivens, Kristin Marie. (2019). A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Soundscape: Physiological Monitors, Rhetorical Ventriloquism, and Earwitnessing. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine 2(1). http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/view/252.
Cherif, A., Adams, G., Movahedzadeh, F., Martyn, M. (2015), Why Do Students Fail? Academic Leaders Perspective, “Collection of Papers” by the Higher Learning Commission.
Cherif, A., Bondoc, J.M., Patwell, R., Bruder, M., Movahedzadeh, F. (2016), “The Use of Untested Drugs to Treat the Ebola Virus Epidemic: A Learning Activity to Engage Learners”, Science Education and Civil Engagement, An International Journal, 8:1 Winter
Cherif, A., Michel, L., Movahedzadeh, F., Siuda, J., Adams, G., and Aron, R. (2010), Reinforcing the Importance of Hypotheses in the Scientific Method of Inquiry: A Learning Activity Using the 2006 Spinach Contamination Event. WSTA Journal of Washington S
Cherif, A., Movahedzadeh, F., Michel, L., Hill, A., Jedlicka, D., (2011), “Environmental Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes”, Science Education and Civil Engagement, An International Journal, 3.1 Winter 2011
Cherif, A., Roze, M., Movahedzadeh, F. (2015), “The Winding Road to Discovering the Link between Genetic Material and DNA”, Journal of Education and Practice, 6 (27), pp. 132-148.
Cherif, A., Siuda, J., Roze, M., Movahedzadeh, F., Gialamas, S. (2015), "Enhancing Student Understanding Through Analogies in Teaching Science Concepts: Teacher and Faculty Perspectives" Pinnacle Educational Research & Development ISSN: 2360-9494, Vol. 3
Cherif, A., Siuda, J.E., Jedlicka, D.M., Bondoc, J.M., Movahedzadeh, F. “Not All the Organelles of Living Cells Are Equal! Or Are They? Engaging Students in Deep Learning and Conceptual Change”, Journal of Education and Practice Vol.7, No.17, 2016
Cherif, A.H., Jedlicka, D., Kassem, S., Siuda, J.E., Christoforatou, E., Gialamas, S., Movahedzadeh, F. (2018). "Has the Time Come to Start a Dialogue About the Role of Nurtition and Our Inner Microbiomes In Education? Teacher and Faculty Perspectives," J
Cherif, A. H., Jedlicka, D.M., Colyer, T.E., Movahedzadeh, F., Phillips, W.B., (2012), “Redesigning Human Body Systems: Effective Pedagogical Strategy for Promoting Active Learning and STEM Education”, Education Research International, vol. 2012, Article
Cherif, A.H., Kassem, S., Siuda, J.E., Cannon, C., Gialamas, S., Movahedzadeh, F. (2018). “Where Have the Beans Been? Student-Driven Laboratory Learning Activities with Legumes for Conceptual Change”, Journal of Education and Practice, Vol. 9, (11). 40-6
Cherif, A. H., Michel, L., Movahedzadeh, F., Aron, R., Adams, G., & Jenkins, S. (2009). Defending the Lowly Prokaryotes: New Challenges for BIOGaia Learning Activity. American Biology Teacher (National Association of Biology Teachers), 71(6), 346–353.
Cherif, A.H., Movahedzadeh, F., Michel, L., Marthakis, N.B. (2012), “How Well Do You Know Your Closest Neighbors? Activity for Promoting Active Learning in Biology Classes”, Science Education and Civil Engagement, An International Journal 4:2 Summer 2012
Cherif, A.H., Siuda, J., Movahedzadeh, F. (2013), Developing Non Traditional Biology Labs to Challenge Students & Enhance Learning. The American Biology Teacher (Feature article), 75 (1), 13-16
Cherif, A.H., Siuda, J.E., Kassem, S., Gialamas, S., Farahnaz Movahedzadeh, E. (2017). “Which Sweetener Is Best for Yeast? An Inquiry-Based Learning for Conceptual Change”, Journal of Education and Practice, Vol.8, No.2.
Cherif, A.H., Siuda, J. E., Movahedzadeh, F., Martyn, M., Cannon, C., Ayesh, S. (2014), College Students' Use of YouTube Videos In Learning Biology and Chemistry Concepts, Pinnacle Educational Research & Development, 2 (6), Article ID perd_149, 334-347,
Egli, E., Movahedzadeh, F., Heard Greer, E., Heldt, H., Cherif, A.H. (2016). “Exploring Students’ Attitudes and Insight toward the Changing Face of AIDS”, IJRDO-Journal of Educational Research, Vol4, No. 4.
Movahedzadeh, F. (2012), Improving Student Success Through Hybrid Mode of Delivery in Nonscience Major Biology Classes, Scientific & Academic Publishing, Education, Vol.2, No.7: 333-339
Movahedzadeh, F., (2011), Improving Students’ Attitude toward Science through the Blended learning, Science Education and Civil Engagement, An International Journal, 3:2 Summer 2011
Movahedzadeh, F., Linzemann, A, Aveja, J., Wickham, R., Martyn, M. (2014), Do You Know Your Sh*t? Students’ Awareness, Attitude, and Perception about Current and Relevant Events in Microbiology, British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, 4(16), 2290
Movahedzadeh, F., Linzemann, A., Quintero, E., Aveja, J., Thompson, W., Martyn, M. (2015), “Life in and Around the Chicago River: Achieving Civic Engagement through Project Based Learning”, Science Education and Civil Engagement, An International Journal,
Movahedzadeh, F., Patwell, R., Rieker, J. E., Gonzalez, T. (2012), “Project- Based Learning to Promote Effective Learning in Biotechnology Courses”, Education Research International, Article ID 536024, doi:10.1155/2012/536024
Siuda, J., Cherif, A., Adams, G., Michel, L., Movahedzadeh, F., and Aron, R. (2010), Inquiry Laboratory Investigation: Using Bacterial Contamination to Reinforce the Importance of Hypotheses in the Scientific Method of Inquiry. WSTA Journal of Washington
Venegas, M.A., Bollaert, M.D., Jafari, A., Bondoc, J.M.C., Twilley, J., Thompson, W., Movahedzadeh, F. (2018) “Nanoparticles against resistant Pseudomonas spp.” Microbial pathogenesis, Vol.118, 115-117.
Villasenor, A., Movahedzadeh, F., (2010), The Impact of Having a Research Scientist as a Guest Lecturer in a College Biology Course, Science Education and Civil Engagement, An International Journal, 2:2 Summer 2010

Humanties/Social Sciences Articles by HWC Faculty

Higher Education/Instruction Articles by HWC Faculty

Su, Larry. “Things You Do Not Know about the Ivy League" World Journal, 07June, 2018.
Afshin Afshar, M., Jafari, A., Heshmati, F., Movahedzadeh, F., Cherif, A.H. (2019). “Instructional Strategies for Motivating and Engraining Generation Z Students in Their Own Learning Process," Journal of Education and Practice, Vol. 33, (2), 104-126.
Bivens, Kristin Marie, Kirsti Cole & Leah Heilig (2019). The Activist Syllabus as Technical Communication and the Technical Communicator as Curator of Public Intellectualism, Technical Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2019.1635211
Cherif, A., Adams, G., Movahedzadeh, F., Martyn, M. (2015), Why Do Students Fail? Academic Leaders Perspective, “Collection of Papers” by the Higher Learning Commission.
Cherif, A., Adams, G., Movahedzadeh, F., Martyn, M., McManamon, J., (2015), “Do College Students Give a flip About Flipped Learning?”, Journal of higher education management, 30 (1), pp. 191-215
Cherif, A., Movahedzadeh, F., Adams, G., Dunning, J. (2013), Why Do Students Fail? Students’ Perspective, Higher Learning Commission: A Collection of Papers on Self-Study and Institutional Improvement (29th edition), pp. 35-51.
Cherif, A.H., Gerald, A., Harris, J.D., Movahedzadeh, F., Martyn, M., Gialamas, S. (2019). Front Line Strategies for Improving Student Success in Online Education. Research Journal of Education, vol.5, No.9, 167-176.
Cherif, A.H., Jedlicka, D., Verma, S., Uddin, K., Movahedzadeh, F. (2017) “Brain Talking: Classroom Activity to Engage Students in Deep and Meaningful Learning” Journal of Education and Practice. Vol. 8, No.32. pp. 156-173
Cherif, A. H., Movahedzadeh, F., Adams, G., M. Martyn, Harris, J. D., Gialamas, S (2019). Faculty Perspectives on Narrowing the Success Gap Between Online and Onsite Learning. Research Journal of Education, 5(8), 128-142. doi: 10.32861/rje.58.128.142
Cherif, A.H., Roze, M., Wajngurt, C., Overbye, D., Movahedzadeh, F. (2018). “Perspectives on Improving Higher Education: Faculty and Administrative Priorities” Journal of higher education management, 32(2), 104-126.
Mohammad, A. A., Jafari, A., Heshmati, F., Movahedzadeh, F., Cherif, A. H. (2019). Instructional Strategies for Motivating and Engraining Generation Z Students in Their Own Learning Process. Journal of Education and Practice, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.71
Su, Larry. "Keep the SAT and ACT," Inside Higher Ed, 08/02/2021.