Archive for January, 2009

Student Evaluation of Research Projects

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

As the new semester starts back into full swing, I’m still digesting the student evaluations that I carried out last term. Here’s the full report. Stay tuned for a more detailed analysis…

A Good Idea

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Here’s an interesting idea, let’s design what we teach around the question, “What do Scientists Do?” I was originally exposed to this simple, but amazingly “outside-the-box” idea, by Ellen Aho, a professor at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. I met Ellen at the ASMCUE 2008 conference where she presented, “The student-led conference style symposia as [...]

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