Cottrell Scholars Collaborative New Faculty Workshop: Professional development for new chemistry faculty and initial assessment of its efficacy

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1874-1881

  Baker, Lane A ^a   Chakraverty, Devasmita ^b   Columbus, Linda ^c   Feig, Andrew L ^d   Jenks, William S ^e   Pilarz, Matthew ^b   Stains, Marilyne ^b   Waterman, Rory ^f   Wesemann, Jodi L ^g  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^g AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; First Year Undergraduate General; Graduate Education Research; Second Year Undergraduate; Upper Division Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922464800     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed500547n     Document Type: Article

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