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    Parasitology Exams
    Parasitology Exams
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    Parasitology Exams

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    This book contains exams and quizzes from BIOS 385, Parasitology, taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2008 and 2009, plus syllabi from an honors seminar: Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Global Health. The exams are take-home essay format, with required use of the primary literature. Weekly quiz questions are also included, along with editorial policies. The appendix contains recommended reading and the list of books includes one by a former student in the honors seminar, a book written as an undergrad from her essays in the honors seminar.

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    PublisherJohn Janovy, Jr
    Release dateAug 25, 2013
    ISBN9781301177028
    Parasitology Exams
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    John Janovy, Jr

    About the author:John Janovy, Jr. (PhD, University of Oklahoma, 1965) is the author of seventeen books and over ninety scientific papers and book chapters. These books range from textbooks to science fiction to essays on athletics. He is now retired, but when an active faculty member held the Paula and D. B. Varner Distinguished Professorship in Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interest is parasitology. He has been Director of UNL’s Cedar Point Biological Station, Interim Director of the University of Nebraska State Museum, Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences, and secretary-treasurer of the American Society of Parasitologists.His teaching experiences include large-enrollment freshman biology courses, Field Parasitology at the Cedar Point Biological Station, Invertebrate Zoology, Parasitology, Organismic Biology, and numerous honors seminars. He has supervised thirty-two graduate students, and approximately 50 undergraduate researchers, including ten Howard Hughes scholars.His honors include the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award, University Honors Program Master Lecturer, American Health Magazine book award (for Fields of Friendly Strife), State of Nebraska Pioneer Award, University of Nebraska Outstanding Research and Creativity Award, The Nature Conservancy Hero recognition, Nebraska Library Association Mari Sandoz Award, UNL Library Friend’s Hartley Burr Alexander Award, and the American Society of Parasitologists Clark P. Read Mentorship Award.

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      Parasitology Exams - John Janovy, Jr

      PARASITOLOGY EXAMS AND QUIZZES

      University of Nebraska-Lincoln

      2006-2010

      by

      John Janovy, Jr.

      Copyright © 2013 by John Janovy, Jr.

      Smashwords Edition

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      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment and academic use only. PARASITOLOGY EXAMS AND QUIZZES is free, but an author needs some encouragement now and then, so please tell your friends to download their own copies so that the numbers show up on my dashboard page (= the encouragement!) Thank you for respecting the author’s copyrighted work. I hope this book is of use to you.

      ISBN:9781301177028

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      Table of Contents:

      Chapter 1. Examination Philosophy

      Chapter 2. Advice on How to Take These Take-home Exams

      Chapter 3. The Take-home Essay Exams

      Chapter 4. The Friday Quiz Questions

      Chapter 5. Editorial Policies

      Chapter 6. Syllabi from the honors seminar: Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Global Health

      Appendix: Other recommended books

      OUTWITTING COLLEGE PROFESSORS

      INTELLIGENT DESIGNER: EVOLUTION FOR POLITICIANS

      TEN MINUTE ECOLOGIST

      THE GINKGO: AN INTELLECTUAL AND VISIONARY COMING OF AGE

      TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI, THE CAUSATIVE AGENT OF CHAGAS’ DISEASE: A BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, AND ECONOMIC REVIEW

      Homework assignments and the data sets involved

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      Chapter 1. Examination Philosophy

      When making out exams for upper division or small classes (<40 students), the question that I have tried to address over the years is the following one: What kind of behaviors do professional scientists exhibit that result in their ongoing education? The answer is: They solve problems, plan and do projects, use primary literature, talk about ideas, seek sources of funding, present their work to the public, and if they are academics, they usually end up mentoring both their colleagues and their students. Professional scientists don’t study for multiple-choice exams or copy-and-paste text from Wikipedia into documents read by a teacher. So early in my career I decided to ask my students to do what I did, albeit at their level and within their restricted time. The exams are thus take-home and the quizzes are from a pool of questions given in advance.

      I also learned a long time ago that if one does a certain activity to a certain extent, then learning occurs. If you practice scales on the piano for a couple of hours then never practice again, you will end up learning only a infinitesimal fraction of what another person learns by practicing those same scales an hour a day, with variations, for a year. So the concept of repetition is built into this examination strategy. In other words, I’m not really testing in an attempt to discover student knowledge; instead, I’m trying to test in a way that is inherently educational for the student. Thus the take-home exams are done exactly the same way, using information retrieval and analysis techniques that professional scientists use, regardless of the subject. Similarly, a student knows that over the course of a semester, s/he will be studying fifteen questions every week, developing the answers that can be expressed in one or two sentences, but will be asked to actually answer only five of those. So we get into the habit of studying more than we know we’ll need, another scientist’s

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