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Biological Science Quantitative Reasoning Exam (BioSQuaRE)

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A validated, published instrument assessing student understanding of algebra, modeling, statistics, probability, and data visualization. 

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How to tell a good story, from NPR’s Life Kit

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Tips for telling a meaningful story, from an interview with Sarah Austin Jenness, the executive producer of The Moth and storytelling coach Meg Bowles. In this interview, Austin Jenness and Bowles offer a step-by-step guide on how to tell a story about yourself. Read the transcript or listen to the 26-minute NPR Life Kit podcast.

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How to do oral history

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Suggestions for anyone looking to start recording oral histories based on best practices used in the Smithsonian Oral History Program at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
 

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The anatomy of a great interview

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In this post for Facing Today (a Facing History blog), Kim Baskin (Associate Director of Education Partnerships at StoryCorps) offers tips for interviewing people that you know, from preparation to wrapping it up.

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Should all PhD’s be called ‘Doctor’? Female academics say yes.

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This article by Allie Weill reviews the discrepancy in usage of titles for PhD holders for women and people of color, and how this discrepancy promotes implicit biases that devalue these PhD holders. 

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Researcher Positionality- A Consideration of Its Influence and Place in Qualitative Research - A New Researcher Guide

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Focuses on entry-level/graduate student researchers; defines positionality and reflexivity and describes the process of finding one’s positionality. 

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Ethnographic Methodology

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A succinct summary of interview types and techniques including “Do’s and Don’ts”
 

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Conducting Interviews

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In this chapter of the open-source text Ethnography Made Easy, author Samuel Finesurrey details types of interviews, describes techniques and best practices, and briefly discusses evaluation and archiving of interviews. 

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applying UDL in college and faculty perspectives

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Evaluating the Quick Fix: Weight Loss Drugs and Cellular Respiration

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Understanding Protein Domains: A Modular Approach

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Investigating Cell Signaling with Gene Expression Datasets

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Teaching Cell Structures through Games

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