Scientific teaching: Defining a taxonomy of observable practices

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Couch, Brian A ^a,c   Brown, Tanya L ^a   Schelpat, Tyler J ^a   Graham, Mark J ^b   Knight, Jennifer K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HUMAN; LEARNING; SCIENCE; STUDENT; TEACHING; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACULTY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; SCIENCE; STUDENTS; TEACHING; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84981724816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.14-01-0002     Document Type: Article

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