Unexpected Outcomes: Impacting Higher Education Teaching Practice via High School Outreach

by: Joyce S. Kaser, Patricia S. Bourexis, and Michael J. Dougherty

This article describes a four-year project directed by the American Society of Human Genetics from 2007 to 2010 and funded by the National Science Foundation established a network of 70 geneticist-teacher partnerships, each of which developed and implemented genetics lessons for high school students over the course of a full year.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2013Stock # jcst13_043_01_43Volume 043Issue 01

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