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Teaching the Process of Science: Faculty Perceptions and an Effective Methodology

*Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; and

^†These authors contributed equally to this work.
^‡Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium.

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Mary Pat Wenderoth

*Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; and

^†These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Matthew Cunningham

*Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; and

^§Current address: Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.

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, and

Clarissa Dirks

*Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; and

Scientific Inquiry, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 98505

^†These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Martha Grossel, Monitoring Editor

Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.10-01-0005

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Submitted: 22 January 2010

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Alison Crowe for helping to improve this manuscript. We thank Robin Wright for her work that initiated this program, as well as Robert Steiner, Barbara Wakimoto, and Bette Nicotri for their input throughout its development. This work was funded by a grant to the University of Washington from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program (Grant 52003841) and approved by The Evergreen State College's Institutional Review Board.

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