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Classroom Assessment
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“Streak Plate” Strategies for Classroom Assessment
Virginia Anderson, Towson University
Using Assessment to Foster Student Learning
Spencer Benson, University of Maryland
The KEEP Toolkit: A Handy Tool for Microbiology Educators
Marjorie (Kelly) Cowan, Miami University (Ohio) - Middletown
ASMCUE 2004 Session Aims to Grow MicrobeLibrary Curriculum Collection
Kelly Gull, American Society for Microbiology
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Kathleen Jagger, Transylvania University
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Indiren Pillay, Southwest Tennessee Community College
From the Editor
This issue is focused on classroom assessment. In the biological sciences, we are lucky to have as colleagues some of the leading scholars in the area of assessment. Two of them, Virginia Anderson and Spencer Benson, share their experiences and advice in articles this month.
In addition to being an important tool for learning, assessment is one of the foundational parts of the scholarship of pedagogy. This issue also contains a short article about a Carnegie Foundation product called the KEEP toolkit, which can help with both kinds of assessment, as well as with presentations and other necessary tasks in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
And of course, we’ll have a report from the 11th annual ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators. The full text of the annual report is available online at http://www.asmcue.org/highlights/index.asp, and in this issue of FOME we feature highlights from the “Best Practices” session, always a favorite.
Kelly Cowan
Miami University - Middletown
Newsletter Editorial Committee
M.M. (Kelly) Cowan, Editor, Miami University - Middletown
Jacki Laxon, Community College of Rhode Island
Indiren Pillay, Southwest Tennessee Community College
Christopher Woolverton, Kent State University
Kristen Catlin-LeBaron, Production Editor, ASM Staff
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