Puerto Rican Students Rising in STEM: Findings from a Multicampus Collaborative CURE Program to Promote Student Success
This study sought to examine the impacts of the Research for Improved Student Experiences (RISE) in STEM program at two campuses of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. The program included multicampus collaborative CUREs, academic advising, and peer mentoring using quasi-experimental design. Impact assessment included psychosocial metrics such as self-efficacy, science identity and sense of belonging in a pre/posttest design. These findings were triangulated with the differences between treatment and control for retention, pass rate, and course grades. The findings revealed statistically significant improvements ...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - November 2, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Merlis P Alvarez-Berrios Gabriele Haynes Source Type: research
Puerto Rican Students Rising in STEM: Findings from a Multicampus Collaborative CURE Program to Promote Student Success
This study sought to examine the impacts of the Research for Improved Student Experiences (RISE) in STEM program at two campuses of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. The program included multicampus collaborative CUREs, academic advising, and peer mentoring using quasi-experimental design. Impact assessment included psychosocial metrics such as self-efficacy, science identity and sense of belonging in a pre/posttest design. These findings were triangulated with the differences between treatment and control for retention, pass rate, and course grades. The findings revealed statistically significant improvements ...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - November 2, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Merlis P Alvarez-Berrios Gabriele Haynes Source Type: research
Puerto Rican Students Rising in STEM: Findings from a Multicampus Collaborative CURE Program to Promote Student Success
This study sought to examine the impacts of the Research for Improved Student Experiences (RISE) in STEM program at two campuses of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. The program included multicampus collaborative CUREs, academic advising, and peer mentoring using quasi-experimental design. Impact assessment included psychosocial metrics such as self-efficacy, science identity and sense of belonging in a pre/posttest design. These findings were triangulated with the differences between treatment and control for retention, pass rate, and course grades. The findings revealed statistically significant improvements ...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - November 2, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Merlis P Alvarez-Berrios Gabriele Haynes Source Type: research
Puerto Rican Students Rising in STEM: Findings from a Multicampus Collaborative CURE Program to Promote Student Success
This study sought to examine the impacts of the Research for Improved Student Experiences (RISE) in STEM program at two campuses of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. The program included multicampus collaborative CUREs, academic advising, and peer mentoring using quasi-experimental design. Impact assessment included psychosocial metrics such as self-efficacy, science identity and sense of belonging in a pre/posttest design. These findings were triangulated with the differences between treatment and control for retention, pass rate, and course grades. The findings revealed statistically significant improvements ...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - November 2, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Merlis P Alvarez-Berrios Gabriele Haynes Source Type: research
Puerto Rican Students Rising in STEM: Findings from a Multicampus Collaborative CURE Program to Promote Student Success
This study sought to examine the impacts of the Research for Improved Student Experiences (RISE) in STEM program at two campuses of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. The program included multicampus collaborative CUREs, academic advising, and peer mentoring using quasi-experimental design. Impact assessment included psychosocial metrics such as self-efficacy, science identity and sense of belonging in a pre/posttest design. These findings were triangulated with the differences between treatment and control for retention, pass rate, and course grades. The findings revealed statistically significant improvements ...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - November 2, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Merlis P Alvarez-Berrios Gabriele Haynes Source Type: research
Puerto Rican Students Rising in STEM: Findings from a Multicampus Collaborative CURE Program to Promote Student Success
This study sought to examine the impacts of the Research for Improved Student Experiences (RISE) in STEM program at two campuses of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. The program included multicampus collaborative CUREs, academic advising, and peer mentoring using quasi-experimental design. Impact assessment included psychosocial metrics such as self-efficacy, science identity and sense of belonging in a pre/posttest design. These findings were triangulated with the differences between treatment and control for retention, pass rate, and course grades. The findings revealed statistically significant improvements ...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - November 2, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Merlis P Alvarez-Berrios Gabriele Haynes Source Type: research
Puerto Rican Students Rising in STEM: Findings from a Multicampus Collaborative CURE Program to Promote Student Success
This study sought to examine the impacts of the Research for Improved Student Experiences (RISE) in STEM program at two campuses of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. The program included multicampus collaborative CUREs, academic advising, and peer mentoring using quasi-experimental design. Impact assessment included psychosocial metrics such as self-efficacy, science identity and sense of belonging in a pre/posttest design. These findings were triangulated with the differences between treatment and control for retention, pass rate, and course grades. The findings revealed statistically significant improvements ...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - November 2, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Merlis P Alvarez-Berrios Gabriele Haynes Source Type: research
Assessing Community College Biology Student Perceptions of Being Called on in Class
We examined how community college (CC) students perceive being called on by addressing 1) benefits that help their learning and 2) characterizing the anxiety students experience through this practice. To do this, we surveyed students in six biology courses taught by six faculty members over six academic quarters. We analyzed survey responses from 383 unique students (520 total responses) using mixed methods. Qualitative responses were coded and consensus codes revealed that students saw benefits to being called on, including paying attention and coming prepared. Qualitative codes also revealed different types of anxiety, b...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - October 31, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Stacy M Alvares J Gwen Shlichta Jenny L McFarland Elli J Theobald Source Type: research
Students explain evolution by natural selection differently for humans versus nonhuman animals
In this study, we compare students' explanations of natural selection for humans versus a nonhuman animal (cheetah) at different times during biology instruction. We found "taxon" to be a significant predictor of the content of students' explanations. Responses to "cheetah" prompts contained a larger number and diversity of key concepts (e.g., variation, heritability, differential reproduction) and fewer naïve ideas (e.g., need, adapt) when compared with responses to an isomorphic prompt containing "human" as the organism. Overall, instruction increased the prevalence of key concepts, reduced naïve ideas, and caused a mo...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - October 31, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Joelyn de Lima Tammy M Long Source Type: research
"So, We Found a Way:" How Changing Modalities Affected a Year-Long Mentored Research Experience for Associate's Degree Students
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2023 Dec;22(4):ar49. doi: 10.1187/cbe.21-09-0278.ABSTRACTThe CUNY Research Scholars Program (CRSP) has provided year-long mentored research experiences for 1678 associate's degree STEM students since 2014. The pluralities (32%) of mentors, all of whom are full-time faculty, have been biologists. Other represented disciplines include, but are not limited to, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, environmental science, linguistics, and psychology. The research experiences take place at all 10 associate's degree-granting colleges within the City University of New York system. Our previous assessment demonstr...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - October 31, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Ron Nerio Veer Shetty Effie MacLachlan Source Type: research
How Do Instructors Explain The Mechanism by which ATP Drives Unfavorable Processes?
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2023 Dec;22(4):ar50. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-05-0071.ABSTRACTConcerns regarding students' difficulties with the concept of energy date back to the 1970s. They become particularly apparent for systems involving adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which plays a central role in maintaining the nonequilibrium state of biological systems and in driving energetically unfavorable processes. One of the most well-documented misconceptions related to ATP is the idea that breaking bonds releases energy, when the opposite is true. This misconception is often attributed to language used in biology referring to the "high-energy...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - October 31, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Clare G-C Franovic Nicholas R Williams Keenan Noyes Michael W Klymkowsky Melanie M Cooper Source Type: research
Recent Research in Science Teaching and Learning
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2023 Dec;22(4):fe3. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-08-0162.ABSTRACTThe Current Insights feature is designed to introduce life-science educators and researchers to current articles of interest in other social science and education journals. In this installment, I highlight recent large-scale studies from the K-12 literature that can inform undergraduate teaching. The first characterizes how the sense of belonging can influence whether students offer their ideas during class. The second explores the how instructor-student relationships can be leveraged to improve teaching. The third explores whether rubrics or exempl...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - October 31, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Sarah L Eddy Source Type: research
Re-Envisioning the Culture of Undergraduate Biology Education to Foster Black Student Success: A Clarion Call
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2023 Dec;22(4):es5. doi: 10.1187/cbe.22-09-0175.ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to present an argument for why there is a need to re-envision the underlying culture of undergraduate biology education to ensure the success, retention, and matriculation of Black students. The basis of this argument is the continued noted challenges with retaining Black students in the biological sciences coupled with existing research that implicates science contexts (i.e., the cultural norms, values, and beliefs manifesting through policies and practices) as being the primary source of the challenges experienced by B...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - October 31, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Terrell R Morton Wesley Agee Kilan C Ashad-Bishop Lori D Banks Zanethia Choice Barnett Imari D Bramlett Briana Brown Walter Gassmann Korie Grayson Gail P Hollowell Ruth Kaggwa Gaurav S Kandlikar Marshaun Love Whitney N McCoy Mark A Melton Monica L Miles C Source Type: research
Gendered Performance Gaps in an Upper-Division Biology Course: Academic, Demographic, Environmental, and Affective Factors
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2023 Dec;22(4):ar52. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-03-0041.ABSTRACTDespite the existent gender parity in undergraduate biology degree attainment, gendered differences in outcomes are prevalent in introductory biology courses. Less is known about whether these disparities persist at the upper-division level, after most attrition is assumed to have occurred. Here, we report the consistent presence of gender equity gaps across 35 offerings (10 years) of a large-enrollment upper-division biology course at a research-intensive public university. Multilevel modeling showed that women's grades were lower than men's, rega...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - October 31, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Victoria S Farrar Bianca-Yesenia Cruz Aguayo Natalia Caporale Source Type: research
Assessing Community College Biology Student Perceptions of Being Called on in Class
We examined how community college (CC) students perceive being called on by addressing 1) benefits that help their learning and 2) characterizing the anxiety students experience through this practice. To do this, we surveyed students in six biology courses taught by six faculty members over six academic quarters. We analyzed survey responses from 383 unique students (520 total responses) using mixed methods. Qualitative responses were coded and consensus codes revealed that students saw benefits to being called on, including paying attention and coming prepared. Qualitative codes also revealed different types of anxiety, b...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - October 31, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Stacy M Alvares J Gwen Shlichta Jenny L McFarland Elli J Theobald Source Type: research
