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ArticleJournal of microbiology & biology education2025

Not just an afterthought: the essentiality of professional development for STEM teaching assistants.

Emma C Goodwin, Karen A Santillan, Petra Kranzfelder, Jeffrey T Olimpo

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Article in Journal of microbiology & biology education, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Emma C GoodwinDepartment of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3627-0291
Karen A SantillanDepartment of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.
Petra KranzfelderDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4146-7929
Jeffrey T OlimpoOffice of Educational Innovation and Assessment, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9322-1050

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs) have become increasingly responsible for facilitating coursework in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Yet, they often receive limited, if any, professional development (PD) to support them in this endeavor and to accelerate their growth as educators. This themed issue on STEM TA PD reflects a concerted effort to address this concern, with the articles comprising the issue representing a wide array of topical contributions by authors with a diversity of roles across institutions/organizations.

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assessmentlearning assistantmentoringprofessional developmentSTEMteaching assistant

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PMID40853117
PMCPMC12687611

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