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The first cut is the deepest: reflections on the state of animal dissection in biology education

Pages 583-600 | Published online: 20 Feb 2007

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Miriam A. Zemanova. (2022) Attitudes Toward Animal Dissection and Animal-Free Alternatives Among High School Biology Teachers in Switzerland. Frontiers in Education 7.
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Emma K. Grigg, Lynette A. Hart & Jenny Moffett. (2020) Comparison of the Effects of Clay Modeling & Cat Cadaver Dissection on High School Students’ Outcomes & Attitudes in a Human Anatomy Course. The American Biology Teacher 82:9, pages 596-605.
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Iztok Tomažič. (2017) Lower secondary school students’ interest and emotions regarding dissection in schools - a pilot study. Acta Biologica Slovenica 60:1, pages 89-99.
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Daniel B. Thomas, Jessica D. Hiscox, Blair J. Dixon & Johan Potgieter. (2016) 3D scanning and printing skeletal tissues for anatomy education. Journal of Anatomy 229:3, pages 473-481.
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Christoph Randler, Eda Demirhan, Peter Wüst-Ackermann & Inga H. Desch. (2016) Influence of a Dissection Video Clip on Anxiety, Affect, and Self-Efficacy in Educational Dissection: A Treatment Study. CBE—Life Sciences Education 15:1, pages ar1.
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Christoph Randler, Peter Wüst-Ackermann, Christian Vollmer & Eberhard Hummel. (2012) The relationship between disgust, state-anxiety and motivation during a dissection task. Learning and Individual Differences 22:3, pages 419-424.
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Eberhard Hummel & Christoph Randler. (2011) Living Animals in the Classroom: A Meta-Analysis on Learning Outcome and a Treatment–Control Study Focusing on Knowledge and Motivation. Journal of Science Education and Technology 21:1, pages 95-105.
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