Engaging General Biology Students With Learning Contracts

by: Brenda Litchfield, Juan Mata, and Laura Gray

Students in a general biology class used a learning contract where they selected chapter-relevant activities they could complete through several formats: oral, written, or artistic. The majority of students felt they learned a lot with this method, the process was motivating, and that it should be used in future semesters.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 11/1/2007Stock # jcst07_037_02_34Volume 037Issue 02

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