A cultured learning environment: Implementing a problem- and service-based microbiology capstone course to assess process- and skill-based learning objectives

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Watson, Rachel M ^a   Willford, John D ^a   Pfeifer, Mariel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Capstone; Merrill s first principles of instruction; Microbiology; Problem based learning (PBL); Service learning; Small group instructional diagnoses (SGIDs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055752631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7771/1541-5015.1694     Document Type: Article

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