Case Study: Biology in the News: Beginning and Ending the Semester With the Big Picture

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this article, the author describes how she uses current biology-related news articles to introduce a course and its relevance, to actively engage students at the beginning of the semester, and finally to assess student learning at the end of the course.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2018Stock # jcst18_048_01_51Volume 048Issue 01

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