Narrowing the teaching-research gap by integrating undergraduate education and faculty scholarship

Understanding and enjoying research can be facilitated by doing research with those we teach. By engaging undergraduate students as research participants, and converting a classroom assignment into a research project, the present author was able to narrow the teaching-research gap. 'Letters of...

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Published in:The journal of scholarship of teaching and learning 2012-08, Vol.9 (3)
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