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Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences: Science Practices and Science Identity
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Buchanan, Alaina – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) have become more commonly incorporated in laboratory courses in undergraduate education. Because CUREs incorporate research within the context of a course, the benefits of mentored research (self-efficacy, science identity, persistence, and more) are extended to each student enrolled. CUREs…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Science Laboratories, Science Education
Curriculum Design and Assessment: The Development of a Nonmajor Biology Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences and Its Effects on Students and Instructors
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William Edward Falkner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The goals of nonmajor science education are to improve scientific literacy and produce pro-science attitudes. Together, these goals are expected to improve an individual's ability to make evidence-based decisions based on newer understandings of the natural world as well as developing technologies. In a post-COVID-19 world, public understanding of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Nonmajors, Biology, Undergraduate Students
Effect of Course-Based Research Experiences in Secondary Advanced Biological Science Courses: Impacts on Student Self-Efficacy, Engagement, Identity, Sense of Belonging, and Overall Motivation in STEM
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Shawndra Lyn Fordham – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Integrating Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) into introductory STEM courses at the university level has been recognized as important in increasing persistence in STEM. A significant area of attrition from the STEM pathway, however, occurs during secondary school when student interest in STEM rapidly declines. In this study,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Secondary School Students, Learner Engagement, Student Research
Improving Undergraduate Student Engagement in STEM through Bioinformatics Research
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Michele C. Morris – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A novel intervention to introduce undergraduate students to bioinformatics, provide authentic research opportunities, and support student retention in science majors and careers is presented in the Characterizing Our DNA Exceptions (CODE) project. The need to increase the number of qualified STEM graduates, particularly in the fields of…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Biology
The Impact of Undergraduate Research Experiences on the Development of Biology Students' Domain Knowledge, Domain Interest, and Career Aspirations
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Amy Haddock Keagy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Federal and state agencies in the United States have pressured institutions in higher education to increase the number of graduates in STEM disciplines and supply an educated workforce for the increasing shortages in the STEM economy. Undergraduate research experience is one potential mechanism for supporting retention and student success within…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Biology, Majors (Students)
A Study of the FEPAC Accredited Graduate Forensic Science Programs' Curricula
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Rushton, Catherine Genice – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The National Institute of Justice (1999) and the National Academy of Sciences (2009) recommended that forensic science training shift from on-the-job training to formal education; however, the reports cited inconsistencies in the curricula of the forensic science degree programs as an impediment to this. The Forensic Science Education Programs…
Descriptors: Crime, Accreditation (Institutions), Criminology, Standards