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SUBMITTER: Shaw JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3577327 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of microbiology & biology education 20121203 2
Debates stimulate critical thinking and can be a highly effective way to actively engage students in the classroom. This paper describes a small group debate format in which groups of four to six students debated preassigned topics in microbiology in front of the rest of the class. Rapid advancements in science, especially in microbiology, provide the scaffolding for students to locate and share evidence-based information from a plethora of complex and often conflicting sources. Student-generate ...[more]