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Publication Date: 2015-Mar
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Research and Teaching: The Roles of Mentoring and Motivation in Student Teaching Assistant Interactions and in Improving Experience in First-Year Biology Laboratory Classes
Good, Jonathon; Colthorpe, Kay; Zimbardi, Kirsten; Kafer, Georgia
Journal of College Science Teaching, v44 n4 Mar 2015
The authors investigated the impact of changing student-TA relations to include a sense of mentoring by redesigning TA allocations so that students worked with the same TA throughout the semester, but without changing student-to-TA ratios.
Descriptors: Motivation, Mentors, Teaching Assistants, Biology, College Freshmen, Graduate Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Student Ratio, Science Laboratories, College Science, Science Achievement, Science Instruction, College Students, Student Experience, Teaching Methods, Resource Allocation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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