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Exploring The Educational And Psychological Impacts Of Peer Led Team Learning And Cyber Peer Led Team Learning On Undergraduate Students In A Large-Enrollment Introductory Biology Course, Mariah Claire Maxwell
Exploring The Educational And Psychological Impacts Of Peer Led Team Learning And Cyber Peer Led Team Learning On Undergraduate Students In A Large-Enrollment Introductory Biology Course, Mariah Claire Maxwell
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Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL) is a well-studied active learning model that is associated with improved educational outcomes for students. The introductory biology course at Syracuse University (SU) has a well-established PLTL program, and published research stemming from this program has shown that PLTL has positive impacts on the short- and long-term retention of underrepresented minority (URM) students in STEM. However, there are additional data regarding potential benefits of the PLTL program for women and first-generation college students that have yet to be published. In this thesis, I present previously unpublished data indicating that women and first-generation college students who …