A card-sorting tool to measure expert versus novice thinking in scientific research.

ABSTRACT: Undergraduate research and laboratory experiences provide a wide range of benefits to student learning in science and are integral to imbed authentic research experiences in biology labs. While the benefit of courses with research experience is widely accepted, it can be challenging to measure conceptual research skills in a quick and easily scalable manner. We developed a card-sorting task to differentiate between novice and expert conceptualization of research principles. There were significant differences in the way faculty/postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students organized their information, with faculty/postdocs more likely to use deep feature sorting patterns related to research approach. When provided scaffolding of group names reflecting expert-like organization, par

SUBMITTER: Cole MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10756038 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature