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Kudish, Philip; Shores, Robin; McClung, Alex; Smulyan, Lisa; Vallen, Elizabeth A.; Siwicki, Kathleen K. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Study group meetings (SGMs) are voluntary-attendance peer-led team-learning workshops that supplement introductory biology lectures at a selective liberal arts college. While supporting all students' engagement with lecture material, specific aims are to improve the success of underrepresented minority (URM) students and those with weaker…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Introductory Courses, Biology, Classroom Environment
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Armbruster, Peter; Patel, Maya; Johnson, Erika; Weiss, Martha – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2009
We describe the development and implementation of an instructional design that focused on bringing multiple forms of active learning and student-centered pedagogies to a one-semester, undergraduate introductory biology course for both majors and nonmajors. Our course redesign consisted of three major elements: 1) reordering the presentation of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Student Attitudes, Problem Based Learning, Student Surveys