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Undergraduate Research Communities: A Powerful Approach to Research Training

Journal of College Science Teaching -- Summer 2006

We applied the concept of learning communities, whereby students develop their ideas in cohort-based settings, to undergraduate research training. This creates powerful research communities where students practice science from observation to experimental design to interpretation of data. We describe a biology program, but the approach suits many discovery-based disciplines.

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