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IAS Professor Becca Price<\/a> published an article, “Using the Paleobiology Database to Teach Scientific Practices: an Approach Aligned to Relational Culture Theory,” in the journal Integrative Organismal Biology. The article documents her philosophy teaching BES 301: Science Methods and Practice<\/a>, in which students learn how science works by conducting their own research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In just ten weeks, students learn enough about the fossil record to ask research questions that have never been asked before\u2014and to answer those questions, analyzing data from the Paleobiology Database<\/a> with statistical analyses they learn in class. Students write scientific papers about their results, many of which have been published in UWB’s student research journal The CROW<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price supports students’ hard work with care, as the article describes. “Deep learning,” she says, “happens when students and their instructor build a cooperative, positive learning environment that includes high goals and support through mistakes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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