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Forming Groups in a Large-Enrollment Biology Class: Group Permanence Matters More than Group Size

Georgianne L. Connell

Biology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225

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Deborah A. Donovan

*Address correspondence to: Deborah A. Donovan (E-mail Address: [email protected]).

Biology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225

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Elli J. Theobald

Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

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Published Online:26 Sep 2023https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.22-08-0172

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Submitted: 29 August 2022

Revised: 26 June 2023

Accepted: 24 July 2023

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© 2023 G. L. Connell et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2023 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

We thank the many WWU Biology 101 students who participated in this research. We also thank undergraduate researcher Erika Francoeur for help coding open-ended questions. Members of the Biology Education Research Group at the University of Washington provided helpful guidance on different stages of this project.