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Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and the Science Education Initiative, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347

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Michelle K. Smith

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and the Science Education Initiative, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347

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Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.09-07-0047

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Submitted: 14 July 2009

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Wendy Adams, Carl Wieman, and William Wood for valuable comments on the manuscript, other members of the Science Education Initiative and other science educators on campus for feedback over the course of the project, and the students of these classes for willingness to participate in this research. The Science Education Initiative at the University of Colorado supported M.K.S. (full) and J.K.K. (partial) for this study.

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