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Does Context Matter? Convergent and Divergent Findings in the Cross-Institutional Evaluation of Graduate Teaching Assistant Professional Development Programs

*Address correspondence to: Todd D. Reeves (E-mail Address: [email protected]).

Department of Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Present addresses: ^‡Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL 60115

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Laura E. Hake

Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

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Xinnian Chen

Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269

^¶These authors contributed equally to the project and are listed alphabetically.

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Jennifer Frederick

Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520

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Kristin Rudenga

Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520

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^@Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556.

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Larry H. Ludlow

Department of Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

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Clare M. O’Connor

Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

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Elizabeth Schussler, Monitoring Editor

Published Online:22 Mar 2018https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.17-03-0044

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Submitted: 6 March 2017

Revised: 6 November 2017

Accepted: 8 November 2017

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© 2018 T. D. Reeves et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2018 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 all the GTAs and students who participated in this project and Jill Gomolka, Beatrice Frederique, Robert Polacheck, and Chenda Hong for research assistance. This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant 1140428 to C.M.O. and L.E.H. and a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to Yale University.

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