Identifying Group Work Experiences That Increase Students' Self-Efficacy for Quantitative Biology Tasks.

ABSTRACT: Quantitative skills are a critical competency for undergraduates pursuing life science careers. To help students develop these skills, it is important to build their self-efficacy for quantitative tasks, as this ultimately affects their achievement. Collaborative learning can benefit self-efficacy, but it is unclear what experiences during collaborative learning build self-efficacy. We surveyed introductory biology students about self-efficacy-building experiences they had during collaborative group work on two quantitative biology assignments and examined how students' initial self-efficacy and gender/sex related to the experiences they reported. Using inductive coding, we analyzed 478 responses from 311 students and identified five group work experiences that increased students' self-eff

SUBMITTER: Aikens ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10228271 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature