Developing Graduate Student's Knowledge of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Through Lesson Study

by: Sharon Dotger, Deborah Barry, Jason Wiles, Elizabeth Benevento, Frances Brzozowski, Jorge Hurtado-Gonzales, Nicole Jacobs, Ellen Royse, Debjeet Sen, Julia Snyder, Robert Stokes, and Ellen Wisner

A group of graduate teaching assistants collaborated with a biology professor and a science educator in a Japanese Lesson Study to directly address a need for contextualized learning. The results indicated that the participants were able to articulate two types of rationales for their teaching: rationales for lesson design and rationales for the importance of including Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium in undergraduate biology.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2012Stock # jcst12_042_01_40Volume 042Issue 01

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