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Adopting an active learning approach to teaching in a research-intensive higher education context transformed staff teaching attitudes and behaviours by White, Paul J., Larson, Ian, Styles, Kim, Yuriev, Elizabeth, Evans, Darrell R., Rangachari, P.K., Short, Jennifer L., Exintaris, Betty, Malone, Daniel T., Davie, Briana, Eise, Nicole, Mc Namara, Kevin, Naidu, Somaiya

“…The conventional lecture has significant limitations in the higher education context, often leading to a passive learning experience for students. This paper…”
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Beyond the single answer: a process-oriented exam for science students by Nastos, Stash, Rangachari, PK

“…This commentary describes an assessment exercise known as the TRIPSE (Tri-Partite Problem Solving Exercise) that mimics science in operation. Students frame…”
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Matters of Taste: Bridging Molecular Physiology and the Humanities by Rangachari, P. K, Rangachari, Usha

“…Taste perception was the focus of an undergraduate course in the health sciences that bridged the sciences and humanities. A problem-based learning approach…”
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On Being Examined: Do Students and Faculty Agree? by Perrella, Andrew, Koenig, Joshua, Kwon, Henry, Nastos, Stash, Rangachari, P. K

“…Students measure out their lives, not with coffee spoons, but with grades on examinations. But what exams mean and whether or not they are a bane or a boon is…”
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Steps to Pluripotent Learning: Provocative Teaching by Rangachari, P. K

“…Education involves interactions between students and teachers in a societal framework. Teachers can best serve their students and society by making students…”
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Teaching Undergraduates the Process of Peer Review: Learning by Doing by Rangachari, P. K

“…An active approach allowed undergraduates in Health Sciences to learn the dynamics of peer review at first hand. A four-stage process was used. In "stage 1",…”
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Ascaridole-less infusions of Chenopodium ambrosioides contain a nematocide(s) that is(are) not toxic to mammalian smooth muscle by MacDonald, D, VanCrey, K, Harrison, P, Rangachari, P.K, Rosenfeld, J, Warren, C, Sorger, G

“…Infusions of Chenopodium ambrosioides (L.) have been used for centuries in the Americas as a popular remedy against intestinal worm infections. The essential…”
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The TRIPSE: A process‐oriented exam for large undergraduate classes by Nastos, Stash, Rangachari, P. K.

“…The TRIPSE (tri‐partite problem solving exercise), a process‐oriented exam that mimics the scientific process, was used previously in small classes (15–25)…”
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The UNSIN Project: Exploring the Molecular Physiology of Sins by Naji, Faysal, Salci, Lauren, Hoit, Graeme, Rangachari, P. K

“…Although active learning works, promoting it in large undergraduate science classes is difficult. Here, three students (F. Naji, L. Salci, and G. Hoit) join…”
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Answering Huxley: "now" students take a "then" exam by Rangachari, P K

“…Twenty-eight undergraduate students in a health sciences program volunteered for an exercise in the history of examinations. They had completed a second-year…”
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COVID struggles: undergraduate teaching assistants balance teaching and learning during a pandemic by Zarandi, A, Wen, A, Rangachari, P K

“…Undergraduate teaching assistants (UTAs) have become valuable collaborators with faculty in large undergraduate first-year classes. Their participation…”
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Back to the future? Active learning of medical physiology in the 1900s by Rangachari, P. K

“…Bachelor of Health Sciences (Hons) Program, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Address for reprint requests and other…”
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Information literacy in an inquiry course for first-year science undergraduates: a simplified 3C approach by Rangachari, P. K, Rangachari, Usha

“…1 Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) Programme, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 2 Population Health Research…”
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Promoting self-directed learning using a menu of assessment options: the investment model by Rangachari, P. K

“…Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) Program, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery,…”
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Of tacit knowledge, texts and thing‐based learning (TBL) by Rangachari, P. K.

“…Practical knowledge has two dimensions‐ a visible, codified component that resembles the tip of an iceberg. The larger but crucial tacit component which lies…”
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Texts in context: Horace Davenport, carbonic anhydrase, and gastric acid secretion by Rangachari, P. K

“…Department of Medicine, Bachelor of Health Sciences (Hons) Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Address for…”
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The targeted oral by Rangachari, P. K

“…University of Calgary Health Sciences Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1 Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: P. K. Rangachari, Univ…”
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Effort and trust: the underpinnings of active learning by Adams, Seana, Bilimoria, Krish, Malhotra, Neha, Rangachari, P K

“…Three undergraduate students and their teacher discuss two crucial issues that form the implicit basis of active learning: effort and trust. They use a single…”
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Histamine: mercurial messenger in the gut by Rangachari, P K

“…This review considers the possibility that histamine functions as a cellular messenger in the gastrointestinal tract. Any biological messenger must be…”
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Lost in translation? Deconstructing science in the news through an inquiry‐based course by Rangachari, P. K.

“…This report describes an experiment to introduce freshmen science students to inquiry‐based learning. The overarching theme was the communication of scientific…”
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