Research and Teaching: The Roles of Mentoring and Motivation in Student Teaching Assistant Interactions and in Improving Experience in First-Year Biology Laboratory Classes

by: Jonathon Good, Kay Colthorpe, Kirsten Zimbardi, and Georgia Kafer

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.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 3/1/2015Stock # jcst15_044_04_88Volume 044Issue 04

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