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- Novel Student Experiences in Chemical Engineering
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- 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- D. Jake Follmer, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Esther W. Gomez, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Manish Kumar, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
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- Diversity
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- Chemical Engineering
career REU person participants and/or graduate education plans; Suggestions for REU program improvement Changes in REU students’ skill levels; Interviews with Experiences and challenges in working Administered in After completion of mentoring with students; Benefits obtained from person and over REU faculty REU collaboration; Suggestions for REU the phone
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- A Virtual Community of Practice for Developing and Implementing Evidence-based Pedagogies
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- 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida; Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman, School of Engineering, University of St. Thomas; Cheryl A Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh; Joseph De-Chung Shih, Stanford University; Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University; Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Richard E Eitel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE)
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- Chemical Engineering, Materials
informed us that exams were not used in the class this year. Some of the faculty havesuggested that they gave more challenging exams because of their perception that students wereachieving deeper learning. This question has not yet been explored with every member of thevirtual community, but our informal analysis suggests that it may be difficult to compare examperformance between the control group and the intervention. PARTICIPANTS’ EXPERIENCES AND RESULTS At the conclusion of the second semester of the VCP, each participant had implemented his orher course transformation using RBIS. From the conversations during the VCP sessions, the ideaemerged for the participants to disseminate their RBIS experiences with the broader communityat the ASEE