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The single recombinant M. tuberculosis protein DPPD provides enhanced performance of skin testing among HIV-infected tuberculosis patients

AMB Express, 2020
Diagnostic testing for M. tuberculosis infection has advanced with QuantiFERON and GeneXpert, but simple cost-effective alternatives for widespread TB screening has remained elusive and purified protein derivative (PPD)-based tuberculin skin testing (TST)
Roberto Badaro, Bruna. A. S. Machado, Malcolm S. Duthie, C. A. Araujo-Neto, D. Pedral-Sampaio, Maria Nakatani, Steven G. Reed   +6 more
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Entangled Production of Individuals and Organizations: A Food Systems Case Study in Service-Learning Transformations

Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2023
This article presents a longitudinal case study of a collaboration between a university and a nonprofit food justice organization. Using a collective autoethnographic process, we examine a three-semester service-learning course in which each author ...
D. Travers Scott, Sallie Hambright-Belue, Mike McGirr   +2 more
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Characterizing Service-Learning Partnerships in Engineering Through the Experiences of Undergraduate Students

Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2022
Partnerships are a central part of the service-learning experience. Recent research has focused on partnerships, types of interactions, and relationships across service-learning from various perspectives, yet examinations of service-learning partnerships
David A. Delaine, Julia Thompson
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Service-learning and inclusion in higher education contexts. A thematic analysis

Formare, 2023
The aim of this thematic analysis is to understand in which contexts of higher education service-learning approach is implemented, and how much it is employed in the field of inclusion.
Diego Di Masi, Alice Di Leva
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Service-Learning: a tool for Civic Engagement and empathy development in university students

Formare, 2023
Service-Learning combines a university study programme with a service experience that aims to respond to social problems in the area. Through this experience in which students play a leading role, they acquire stronger disciplinary and transversal ...
Jennifer Blandina
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Integrating Metacognitive Practice as a Strategy for More Equitable Storytelling in Community-Based Learning

Prompt, 2022
Storytelling is a practice which is critical for the communication of lived experience, the development of empathy, and for the creation of a rich sense of collective being.
Marisa Charley
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Assessment Methods for Service-Learning Projects in Engineering in Higher Education: A Systematic Review

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Service-learning (SL) helps engineering students to be involved in community activities and to be motivated by their studies. Although several reviews and research studies have been published about SL, it is not widespread in sciences and engineering at ...
Marián Queiruga-Dios, María Jesús Santos Sánchez, Miguel Ángel Queiruga-Dios, Pedro Mauricio Acosta Castellanos, Araceli Queiruga-Dios   +4 more
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Establishing Professional Learning Communities to Support the Promotion of Equality and Celebration of Diversity: Reflections from a North-East Community Learning Teacher

Teaching in Lifelong Learning: A Journal to Inform and Improve Practice, 2018
This article presents findings from our collaborative Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment (OTLA) project which employed an action research methodology to explore Equality and Diversity (E&D) practices within our settings.
Vicky Meaby
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Microbes Go to School: Using Microbiology and Service-Learning to Increase Science Awareness and Fostering the Relationship Between Universities and the General Public

Frontiers in Education, 2021
Microbiology is an essential element of our everyday lives. This is not only the consequence of the importance of some pathogenic microorganisms, but also due to their positive and important role in processes related to human health, food production or ...
Mathilda Fatton, Arthur Schneiter, Miriam Allisiardi, Lola Hänni, Gilles Hauser, Yazalde Gonçalves-Fernandes, Alice Pessina, Marie-Lou Pijnenburg, Clément Vaudroz, Andrea Bshary, Saskia Bindschedler, Pilar Junier   +11 more
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Using Cognitive Interviews and Student Response Processes to Validate an Interpretive Argument for the ETS iSkills™ Assessment

Communications in Information Literacy, 2010
Evaluating the trustworthiness of Internet-based or other digital information has become an essential 21st century skill. The iSkills™ assessment, from Educational Testing Service (ETS), purports to measure such digital evaluation skills, along with ...
Eric Snow, Irvin Katz
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