Jennifer Doherty
Assistant Professor of Biology and Physiology/Ecology Education
Jennifer Doherty is a physiology education researcher who investigates how students develop principle-based mechanistic reasoning.
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University of Pennsylvania: Ph.D., Biology
University of Pennsylvania: B.A., Biology
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Jennifer Doherty Named Recipient of 2024 Teacher Scholar Award
Michigan State University | 2024-05-03
Jennifer Doherty believes that students learn best from their mistakes.
In fact, the assistant professor in the Department of Physiology and Lyman Briggs College allows her students to retake any exam without penalty.
“Students have multiple chances to succeed in my courses,” Doherty said. “That does mean I have to rewrite multiple exam questions but that’s okay. I believe that for students to succeed, they have to understand what they are being taught and not just memorize it.”