Developing scientific literacy with a cyclic independent study assisted CURE detecting SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a high level of scientific illiteracy and mistrust that pervades the scientific and medical communities. This finding has proven the necessity of updating current methods used to expose undergraduates to research. The research in traditional course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) is limited by undergraduate time constraints, skill level, and course structure, and consequently it does not attain the learning objectives or the high-impact, relevant studies achieved in graduate-level laboratories using a cyclic trainee/trainer model. Although undergraduate independent study (ISY) research more closely matches the structure and learning objectives of graduate-level research, they are uncommon as professors and universities typically view them

SUBMITTER: Dye K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10720503 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature