Measuring undergraduates' understanding of the culture of scientific research as an outcome variable in research on CUREs.

ABSTRACT: Researchers who work on course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) and issues related to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) retention have begun exploring changes in student thinking about what it means to be a scientist. To support this effort, we developed rubrics to score answers to three open-response prompts: What does it mean to think like a scientist? What does it mean to do science? and Did you do real research in your coursename labs? The rubric development process was iterative and was based on input from the literature, experienced researchers, and early-career undergraduates. A post hoc analysis showed that the rubric elements map to 27 of 31 statements in the Culture of Scientific Research (CSR) framework, suggesting that scored respon

SUBMITTER: Wachtell L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10720405 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature