Research and Teaching: The Roles of Mentoring and Motivation in Student Teaching Assistant Interactions and in Improving Experience in First-Year Biology Laboratory Classes

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Motivation; Mentors; Teaching Assistants; Biology; College Freshmen; Graduate Students; Teacher Student Relationship; Teacher Student Ratio; Science Laboratories; College Science; Science Achievement; Science Instruction; College Students; Student Experience; Teaching Methods; Resource Allocation

10.2505/4/jcst15_044_04_88

0047-231X

The authors investigated the impact of changing student-TA relations to include a sense of mentoring by redesigning TA allocations so that students worked with the same TA throughout the semester, but without changing student-to-TA ratios.

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2016

EJ1093979