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    Figure of the Week: Applied Statistics for Wildlife Research
    Students use their number sense to make observations and explain or guess at patterns shown, discussing at the start of a weekly computer lab. This slide deck focuses on figures related to concepts...

    Keywords: statisticsgraphsmath anxietyWildlife Biologymath attitudesInterpreting Graphssense of belongingfear of negative evaluation

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    Evaluation Findings for EDSIN OEC Program
    Evaluation findings from interviews with fellows, mentors and staff of the 2019-20 EDSIN OEC Fellows Program

    Keywords: evaluationoecSTEM Evaluation

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    Regulation Across Scales: Data Points on How Life Works
    We examined the scientific literature for simple, data-based illustrations of double-negative logic in the regulation of biological systems as described by Sean B. Carroll in his text, The...
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    Evaluation of NSF RCN-UBE SCORE Summit
    Data summary for evaluation findings of the NSF RCN-UBE: Sustainability Challenges for Open Resources to promote an Equitable Undergraduate Biology Education (SCORE) summit held at Bates College,...

    Keywords: evaluationSTEM Evaluation

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    Science “Fails”: A Bank of Historical Examples for Learning From Failure in Science
    Learning from failure is critically important to the processes of scientific inquiry, discovery, and invention. However, students are not routinely taught how to reflect on, learn from, and...

    Keywords: metacognitionScience process skillsLearning from failurepower and privilegestudent wellbeing

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    Survey Findings - RIOS Outcome Survey Fall 2022
    Summary of survey findings to understand members of the RIOS Institute's experience with RIOS since the project’s inception.

    Keywords: evaluation

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    National Institute for STEM Evaluation and Research (NISER)
    Poster on program evaluation presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: evaluationNISERprogram evaluationSummer Workshop 2018

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    Findings from S-JEDI Learning Community Post-Survey
    Summary of findings of the Summer 2020 S-JEDI Learning Community Post-Survey

    Keywords: evaluationscore

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    SPLINE Post-Survey Findings
    Summary of findings for SPLINE program participants Pre to Post

    Keywords: Evaluation SPLINE

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    NSF RCN-UBE SCORE Pre-Data Summary Report
    Evaluation findings of the SCORE Pre-Summit Survey with participant demographics.

    Keywords: evaluationSTEM Evaluation

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    SCORE-UBE Final Evaluation Report
    Final evaluation report for the NSF funded RCN-SCORE Network which aimed to support members tackle shared issues in sustaining OER and OEP. The growth of the network continued to grow through...

    Keywords: STEM Evaluation

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    Debating Conservation: Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Introductory Biology Classes
    Role-playing activities in the classroom promote students’ critical thinking, research, and communication skills. We present an activity where students debate a current controversy in...

    Keywords: Restorationtrophic cascadeecosystem function

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    The Importance of Street Trees and Urban Avifauna: A lesson exploring the relationship between urban forest and foraging birds
    This module examines the relationship between street trees, urban avifauna, and socioeconomic gradients in the highly urbanized county of Los Angeles, California. Using edited data from a published...

    Keywords: conservationBiodiversityurbanizationGeneralized linear modelsavifaunaurban forestsocioeconomicsstreet treesnegative binomial regression

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    An Inquiry-Based Project Added to Traditional Labs: Hands-On Fish Awareness Research in Freshwater Systems Conducted by First-Year Biology Students
    This project involves students in an inquiry-based project added to the introductory biology laboratory course for majors in fall 2019. Research has shown that student engagement in authentic...

    Keywords: Evolutionbehaviorichthyology

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    Coding Club: A Positive Peer-Learning Community
    Free and self-paced tutorials and courses for learning to code out of the University of Edinburgh

    Keywords: statisticsRecologydata visualizationcodingenvironmental sciencepythonjavascript

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    Mock Drug Activity Enhances Student Learning About the Challenges of HIV/AIDS Therapy
    While traditional didactic coursework is important for learning about the scientific aspects of HIV/AIDS, it is difficult to convey social aspects of the epidemic. Due to effective drug therapies,...

    Keywords: drug resistanceRetrovirusViral replication

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    2008-Huet-Deffuant-Differential Equation Models Derived from an Individual-Based Model Can Help to Understand Emergent Effects
    We study a model of primacy effect on individual's attitude. Typically, when receiving a strong negative feature first, the individual keeps a negative attitude whatever the number of moderate...

    Keywords: agent-based modelprimacy effectinformation filteringaggregated modelcollectiveinteractionsdouble-modelling

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    The Lecture-Free Classroom: Teaching students backward design and Bloom's Taxonomy to create their own learning environment
    We describe Presentation Enhanced Learning (PEL), a flexible, lecture-free, field-tested teaching format to promote problem-based, active learning in upper-division or graduate biological sciences...

    Keywords: active learningbackward designProblem based learningBloom's Taxonomy

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    Outside the Norm: Using Public Ecology Database Information to Teach Biostatistics
    Biology students’ understanding of statistics is incomplete due to poor integration of these two disciplines. In some cases, students fail to learn statistics at the undergraduate level due...

    Keywords: biostatisticshypothesis testingexperimental design

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    Math anxiety and attitudes in biology undergraduate students
    Session presentation for BIOMAAP at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: math anxietymath attitudesBIOMAAPSummer Workshop 2018

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