Day: April 6, 2021

CUREs in 2020

Last June, Dr. Erin Dolan and CURENet and ASCB hosted a webinar about how course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURE) were taught during the pandemic. This webinar is available on the ASCB YouTube channel. The panel included: Dr. Katelyn Cooper, University of Central Florida Dr. Lauren DePue, University of Texas – Austin Dr. Enid Gonzalez- Orta, […]
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Labor-based Contract Grading for Equity

Today I attended a talk that was rescheduled after an unfortunate Zoom bombing incident…  Asao B. Inoue discussed what labor-based grading contracts is. Inoue described labor-based grading contracts as: a set of social agreements with students in a course identifies how to determine the final course grade uses labor as the only measure for grades carefully articulated in a […]
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