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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank students in the Spring 2011 and 2012 Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience courses at Davidson College for their enthusiasm, participation, and feedback regarding the use of Figure Facts in the classroom. We also thank students in the Fall 2012 Stem Cell Biology course for serving as a control group in our assessment. We thank Barbara Lom for thoughtful comments on the manuscript and assessment design, and we are grateful to Patricia Peroni for consultation regarding statistical analysis. J. Round is supported by an Undergraduate Science Education Grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Research at Undergraduate Institutions Award (1049768) from the National Science Foundation, and Davidson College.

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