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Promoting Crucial Team Building, Collaboration, and Communication Skills in Graduate Students through Interactive Retreats
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Jean Marie Schmidt; James T. Porter; Vanessa Rivera-Amill; Caroline B. Appleyard – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
Biomedical graduate students receive intensive training in their scientific area of interest yet need additional skills for successful scientific careers. Our aim was to promote team building, improve collaborations and enhance communication skills. An off-site yearly retreat was organized for the graduate students in our NIH-funded Research…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Communication Skills, Graduate Students
A Set of Vertically Integrated Inquiry-Based Practical Curricula that Develop Scientific Thinking Skills for Large Cohorts of Undergraduate Students
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Zimbardi, Kirsten; Bugarcic, Andrea; Colthorpe, Kay; Good, Jonathan P.; Lluka, Lesley J. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
Science graduates require critical thinking skills to deal with the complex problems they will face in their 21st century workplaces. Inquiry-based curricula can provide students with the opportunities to develop such critical thinking skills; however, evidence suggests that an inappropriate level of autonomy provided to under prepared students…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, College Science, Undergraduate Students