Evaluating two approaches to helping college students understand evolutionary trees through diagramming tasks

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 193-201

  Perry, Judy ^a   Meir, Eli ^a,b   Herron, Jon C ^c   Maruca, Susan ^b   Stal, Derek ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SimBiotic Software   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; TEACHING; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; TEACHING; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 46249108025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.07-01-0007     Document Type: Article

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