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Download full textColin D. McClure; Matthew Hudson; Kieran Higgins – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Capstone projects provide key learning opportunities for STEM undergraduates to consolidate knowledge gained over the life of their degree. These projects typically reflect lab- or fieldwork-based research, which can exclude students who do not wish to pursue these career avenues. Here we deployed school engagement projects (SEPs) as an…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Authentic Learning, Learner Engagement
Direct linkBray, Esther – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2019
The aim of this paper is to share a case study from Brunel University London's Department of Life Sciences, where a change project was established to manage a significant increase in undergraduate student numbers. It gives an insight into the key factors behind the successful implementation of change, in particular focusing on how the project…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Departments, Biological Sciences, Change Strategies
Nelson, Kari L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Universities are increasingly encouraging their undergraduates to become mentors to others, yet relatively little research has been done to empirically understand the impact of this work on the mentors themselves. Therefore, the overall goals of this work were: (1) To evaluate the types of studies that have been conducted on the impacts of serving…
Descriptors: Mentors, Undergraduate Students, Program Effectiveness, Research Methodology
Erickson, Olivia A.; Cole, Rebecca B.; Isaacs, Jared M.; Alvarez-Clare, Silvia; Arnold, Jonathan; Augustus-Wallace, Allison; Ayoob, Joseph C.; Berkowitz, Alan; Branchaw, Janet; Burgio, Kevin R.; Cannon, Charles H.; Ceballos, Ruben Michael; Cohen, C. Sarah; Coller, Hilary; Disney, Jane; Doze, Van A.; Eggers, Margaret J.; Farina, Stacy; Ferguson, Edwin L.; Gray, Jeffrey J.; Greenberg, Jean T.; Hoffmann, Alexander; Jensen-Ryan, Danielle; Kao, Robert M.; Keene, Alex C.; Kowalko, Johanna E.; Lopez, Steven A.; Mathis, Camille; Minkara, Mona; Murren, Courtney J.; Ondrechen, Mary Jo; Ordoñez, Patricia; Osano, Anne; Padilla-Crespo, Elizabeth; Palchoudhury, Soubantika; Qin, Hong; Ramírez-Lugo, Juan; Reithel, Jennifer; Shaw, Colin A.; Smith, Amber; Smith, Rosemary; Summers, Adam P.; Tsien, Fern; Dolan, Erin L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic shut down undergraduate research programs across the United States. A group of 23 colleges, universities, and research institutes hosted remote undergraduate research programs in the life sciences during Summer 2020. Given the unprecedented offering of remote programs, we carried out a study to describe and evaluate them.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Undergraduate Students
Maskour, Lhoussaine; Alami, Anouar; Moncef Zaki; Boujemaa Agorram – Education Sciences, 2019
This study aims to assess learning outcomes and identify students' misconceptions in plant classification. We conducted a questionnaire survey with undergraduate and master's students. The qualitative analysis of the students' responses made it possible to shed light on the difficulties of assimilation of many notions and also to identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plants (Botany), Classification, Knowledge Management
Dirks-Naylor, Amie J. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2021
Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree program curricula are typically comprised of heavy course loads and assessment burden. Typically, students "live" from exam to exam only preparing and studying for the exam directly ahead of them while neglecting concurrent courses. Therefore, the aim of the study was to determine the impact of weekly…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Education, Tests
Descamps, Ian; Moore, Thomas; Pollard, Benjamin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
We present an investigation into the interdisciplinary role of physics in a physics-for-nonphysicists course at Pomona College. This work is guided by prior research into introductory physics for life science (IPLS) courses, but attends to significant differences in the scope and context of this course. We interviewed enrolled students, physics…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Science Teachers
Cooper, Katelyn M.; Gin, Logan E.; Brownell, Sara E. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Background: Concealable stigmatized identities (CSIs) are identities that can be kept hidden or invisible and that carry negative stereotypes. Depression is one of the most common CSIs among undergraduates. However, to our knowledge, no studies have explored how students manage depression as a CSI in the context of undergraduate research, a…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Social Bias, Stereotypes, Depression (Psychology)
Durán, Pablo A.; Marshall, Jill A. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the mathematical needs of biological sciences undergraduate students. Student needs were measured through a needs assessment methodology scheme that included a content analysis of peer-reviewed journals, a nationwide cross-sectional survey, and semi-structured interviews. The research question that…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Undergraduate Students, Needs Assessment, Student Needs
Popovic, Marko – Journal of Biological Education, 2018
All living structures, from archaea to human, are open thermodynamic systems analysed through nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics is a field with important applications to life sciences, which is very often left out of life science courses. A three-step method is suggested to make an easy introduction of nonequilibrium…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Biology, Scientific Concepts, Thermodynamics
Seth K. Thompson; Julie Brown; Sehoya Cotner; Jonathan Andicoechea; FangFang Zhao; Gillian Roehrig – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
Research over the last decade has indicated that active learning and student-centered instruction lead to better learning outcomes in undergraduate biology courses than traditional methods such as lecturing. This shift in pedagogical approach has been applied to both high-enrollment lecture-based courses as well as smaller laboratory courses. In…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Training, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Assistants
O'Leary, Erin Sanders; Sayson, Hannah Whang; Shapiro, Casey; Garfinkel, Alan; Conley, William J.; Levis-Fitzgerald, Marc; Eagan, M. Kevin; Van Valkenburgh, Blaire – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
Calculus is typically one of the first college courses encountered by science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. Calculus often presents major challenges affecting STEM student persistence, particularly for students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM. For life sciences majors, calculus courses may not offer…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Calculus, Mathematics Curriculum, Biological Sciences
Jones, Todd R.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. – Education Economics, 2019
Using restricted-access "Survey of Earned Doctorates" data, we investigate which attributes of a doctoral institution predict the share of its undergraduate BAs that will earn a PhD. We use truncation-correction to account for PhD receipt post-sample. Across the fields of humanities, physical, natural, and social sciences, PhD production…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Educational Quality, Undergraduate Students, Institutional Characteristics
Limeri, Lisa B.; Asif, Muhammad Zaka; Bridges, Benjamin H. T.; Esparaza, David; Tuma, Trevor T.; Sanders, Daquan; Morrison, Alexander J.; Rao, Pallavi; Harsh, Joseph A.; Maltese, Adam V.; Dolan, Erin L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Undergraduate research experiences in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields are championed for promoting students' personal and professional development. Mentorship is an integral part of undergraduate research, as effective mentorship maximizes the benefits undergraduates realize from participating in research. Yet almost no…
Descriptors: Mentors, Undergraduate Students, Biological Sciences, Student Research
Chai, Albert; Le, Joshua P.; Lee, Andrew S.; Lo, Stanley M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Group work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses is an effective means of improving student outcomes, and many different factors can influence the dynamics of student discussions and, ultimately, the success of collaboration. The substance and dynamics of group discussions are commonly examined using qualitative methods such…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Group Discussion, Small Group Instruction, STEM Education
