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Title: Students’ Experiences with the Science and Engineering Practices in a Workshop-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
This paper presents a phenomenographic investigation on students’ experiences about research and poster presentations in a workshop-based undergraduate research experience with a focus on how the experience connects to the Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) of the NRC A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the principles of CUREs. This provides insight into how these structured research experiences reflect particular SEPs and also elements of scientific practice that are not captured in the SEPs as they have been formulated previously. This work showcases the importance of future applications, failure, and creativity as additional science practices necessary for students to engage in authentic science. The SEPs and the additional elements of scientific practice are related to how students experience meaningful learning in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. Students highlighted the components of CUREs: importance of contributing relevant discoveries as a motivation for their research, the value of repetition and iteration in ensuring reliable and valid results, and the role of collaboration in seeing new perspectives and solving problems. As a result of presenting their results through a poster, students reported deeper understanding of their research topic, increased ability to articulate scientific concepts, and a better understanding of how to create a visually appealing poster. Students changed the vocabulary they used in their presentations to fit the knowledge level of their audience and highlighted their data in figures and explained other parts of their work in text. Moreover, they saw the poster as an outlet for their creativity.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1929722
PAR ID:
10540583
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Holme, Thomas A
Publisher / Repository:
American Chemical Society
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Chemical Education
Volume:
101
Issue:
6
ISSN:
0021-9584
Page Range / eLocation ID:
2266 to 2278
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Chemistry Education Research Biochemistry Laboratory Instruction Inquiry-Based/Discovery Learning Proteins/Peptides Meaningful Learning Phenomenography Situated Cognition Science and Engineering Practices Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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