Anatomy of an Education Study: Asset-Based Research to Uncover Black Science Majors' Community Cultural Wealth
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):fe4. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-04-0061.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38315897 | DOI:10.1187/cbe.23-04-0061 (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - February 5, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Tatiane Russo-Tait Rebecca M Price Source Type: research
Anatomy of an Education Study: Asset-Based Research to Uncover Black Science Majors' Community Cultural Wealth
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):fe4. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-04-0061.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38315897 | DOI:10.1187/cbe.23-04-0061 (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - February 5, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Tatiane Russo-Tait Rebecca M Price Source Type: research
Family Helps Transform the STEM Pathways of Community College Women of Color STEM Majors
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):ar10. doi: 10.1187/cbe.21-09-0273.ABSTRACTA "critical access point in the STEM pipeline for Latinx students and other students of color" (Herrera et al., 2018), community colleges provide a seminal breeding ground for academic pursuits (Bahr et al., 2017). However, how personal networks influence STEM pathways of two-year college students remains largely unexplored. This mixed methods case study explores influence of personal networks on pursuing STEM fields via social network analysis and qualitative narratives. 36 women of color STEM majors at a two-year urban Hispanic-Serving Institutio...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - February 2, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Melo-Jean Yap Jasmine Foriest Kalli Walker Sara Sanford Adrienne Rice Source Type: research
Participation in Undergraduate Research Reduces Equity Gaps in STEM Graduation Rates
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):ar11. doi: 10.1187/cbe.22-03-0061.ABSTRACTMany students who enroll in a public U.S. 4-y college will not graduate. The odds of completing a college degree are even lower for students who have been marginalized in higher education, especially in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields. Can undergraduate research increase a student's likelihood of graduating college and close educational equity gaps in college completion? To answer this question, we use data from six public U.S. universities (N = 120,308 students) and use Propensity Score Matching to generate a comparison gr...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - February 2, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Heather Haeger Elia Hilda Bueno Quentin Sedlacek Source Type: research
Developing Student Expertise in Evolution: Cognitive Construals Complement Key Concepts in Student Representations
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):ar9. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-06-0109.ABSTRACTGenetic variation is historically challenging for undergraduate students to master, potentially due to its grounding in both evolution and genetics. Traditionally, student expertise in genetic variation has been evaluated using Key Concepts. However, Cognitive Construals may add to a more nuanced picture of students' developing expertise. Here, we analyze the occurrence of Key Concepts and Cognitive Construals among three types of student representations: interviews, drawn models, and constructed responses (CRs). Our mixed-methods analysis indicates...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - February 2, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Kamali Sripathi Aidan Hoskinson Source Type: research
Ethical Dilemmas in Current Uses of AI in Science Education
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):fe3. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-12-0239.ABSTRACTThe purpose of the Current Insights feature is to highlight recent research and scholarship from outside the LSE community. In this installment, I review a series of recently published articles which examine ethical dilemmas concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI), more specifically machine learning, in science education. The articles in this set are intended to stimulate discussions about whether and how AI can and should be used in education research.PMID:38232237 | DOI:10.1187/cbe.23-12-0239 (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - January 17, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Julia Svoboda Gouvea Source Type: research
Metacognitive Exam Preparation Assignments in an Introductory Biology Course Improve Exam Scores for Lower ACT Students Compared with Assignments that Focus on Terms
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):ar6. doi: 10.1187/cbe.22-10-0212.ABSTRACTPreparing for exams in introductory biology classrooms is a complex metacognitive task. Focusing on lower achieving students (those with entering ACT scores below the median at our institution), we compared the effect of two different assignments distributed ahead of exams by dividing classes in half to receive either terms to define or open-ended metacognitive questions. Completing metacognitive assignments resulted in moderately higher exam scores for students on the second and third exams. Metacognitive assignments also improved accuracy (differe...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - January 12, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Diane K Angell Sharon Lane-Getaz Taylor Okonek Stephanie Smith Source Type: research
Christian Student Experiences During Peer Interactions in Undergraduate Biology Courses
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):ar7. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-01-0020.ABSTRACTThe tension between religion and science as a long-standing barrier to science education has led researchers to explore ways of improving the experiences of Christian students in biology who can experience their Christianity as stigmatized in academic biology environments. As undergraduate science classes become student-centered, interactions among students increase, and Christians may feel a need to conceal their religious identities during peer discussions. In this interview study, we used the social psychology framework of concealable stigmatized...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - January 12, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Baylee A Edwards Chloe Bowen M Elizabeth Barnes Sara E Brownell Source Type: research
Broadening Participation in Biology Education Research: A role for affinity groups in promoting social connectivity, self-efficacy, and belonging
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):ar8. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-01-0004.ABSTRACTDiscipline-based education research (DBER) has experienced dramatic growth over recent years, but with growth comes concerns about whether DBER efforts accurately represent the education landscape. By many measures, DBER does not feature a representative range of institutional contexts or a diverse array of voices. Numerous professional development efforts have sought to broaden DBER participation. However, few studies investigate factors that increase engagement by individuals from underrepresented contexts. Drawing on theory related to belonging, ...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - January 12, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Miranda M Chen Musgrove Melissa E Ko Jeffrey N Schinske Lisa A Corwin Source Type: research
Annotations of < em > LSE < /em > Research: Enhancing Accessibility and Promoting High Quality Biology Education Research
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):fe2. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-09-0171.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38194240 | DOI:10.1187/cbe.23-09-0171 (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - January 9, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Kyle J Frantz Rebecca M Price Tatiane Russo-Tait Clark R Coffman Source Type: research
Change as a Scientific Enterprise: Practical Suggestions about Using Change Theory
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):es1. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-06-0103.ABSTRACTChange theory has increasingly become an area of scholarship in STEM education. While this area has traditionally been a topic for organizational psychology, business management, communication studies, and higher education, STEM education researchers are increasingly aware of the need to use formal theories to guide change efforts and research. Formal change theory encompasses our current research-based knowledge about how and why change occurs, and therefore, can guide the selection and design of promising interventions. Yet learning about and usin...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - January 2, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Daniel L Reinholz Tessa C Andrews Source Type: research
Content Coverage as a Persistent Exclusionary Practice: Investigating Perspectives of Health Professionals on the Influence of Undergraduate Coursework
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):ar5. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-05-0074.ABSTRACTSTEM undergraduates navigate lengthy sequences of prerequisite courses covering volumes of science content. Given that these courses may contribute to attrition and equity gaps in STEM, research is needed to test the assumption that prerequisite content benefits students in their future studies and careers. We investigated the relevance of prerequisite course content for students' careers through semistructured interviews with practicing nurses regarding their undergraduate anatomy and physiology (A&P) courses. Nurses reported that A&P conte...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - January 2, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Brie Tripp Sherri Cozzens Catherine Hrycyk Kimberly D Tanner Jeffrey N Schinske Source Type: research
Emotion, Fact, and Anthropogenic Disturbances: Undergraduate Attitudes Toward Wildfire and Urbanization after a Brief Intervention
This study hints that brief interventions can impact student disturbance beliefs, but more research is needed to guide curriculum development. Despite some research suggesting the value of emotion to inspire climate action, our results suggest that more work needs to be done regarding the value of emotion to increase environmental action toward other anthropogenic disturbances.PMID:38166021 | DOI:10.1187/cbe.22-08-0152 (Source: CBE Life Sciences Education)
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - January 2, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Mali M Hubert Maryrose Weatherton Elisabeth E Schussler Source Type: research
Change as a Scientific Enterprise: Practical Suggestions about Using Change Theory
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):es1. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-06-0103.ABSTRACTChange theory has increasingly become an area of scholarship in STEM education. While this area has traditionally been a topic for organizational psychology, business management, communication studies, and higher education, STEM education researchers are increasingly aware of the need to use formal theories to guide change efforts and research. Formal change theory encompasses our current research-based knowledge about how and why change occurs, and therefore, can guide the selection and design of promising interventions. Yet learning about and usin...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - January 2, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Daniel L Reinholz Tessa C Andrews Source Type: research
Content Coverage as a Persistent Exclusionary Practice: Investigating Perspectives of Health Professionals on the Influence of Undergraduate Coursework
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Mar;23(1):ar5. doi: 10.1187/cbe.23-05-0074.ABSTRACTSTEM undergraduates navigate lengthy sequences of prerequisite courses covering volumes of science content. Given that these courses may contribute to attrition and equity gaps in STEM, research is needed to test the assumption that prerequisite content benefits students in their future studies and careers. We investigated the relevance of prerequisite course content for students' careers through semistructured interviews with practicing nurses regarding their undergraduate anatomy and physiology (A&P) courses. Nurses reported that A&P conte...
Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - January 2, 2024 Category: Cytology Authors: Brie Tripp Sherri Cozzens Catherine Hrycyk Kimberly D Tanner Jeffrey N Schinske Source Type: research
