University of Wisconsin–Madison

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A Short History of Scientific Teaching

The term “Scientific Teaching” was coined in 2004 by UW-Madison Professor Jo Handelsman (Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Plant Pathology) in response to the need to address the attrition of STEM majors and promote evidence-based teaching methods. However, the story begins almost a decade earlier. Early Days Scientific Teaching content, before it was named, began as Biology Brought …