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Research ArticleIV. Teaching and Learning: Contexts and Practices
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Evaluating Promising Practices in Undergraduate STEM Lecture Courses

Lynn C. Reimer, Katerina Schenke, Tutrang Nguyen, Diane K. O'Dowd, Thurston Domina, Mark Warschauer
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2016, 2 (1) 212-233; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.10
Lynn C. Reimer
aNational Science Foundation graduate research fellow at the School of Education, University of California, Irvine
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Katerina Schenke
bPostdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles
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Tutrang Nguyen
cDoctoral student at the University of California, Irvine
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Diane K. O'Dowd
dProfessor and vice provost at the University of California, Irvine
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Thurston Domina
eAssociate professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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fProfessor and interim dean at the University of California, Irvine
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