"I don't Know what I Would do Without it" How Life Science Graduate Students Describe Resource Value.

ABSTRACT: Graduate students often face choices about which resources to use to help them succeed in their programs. These choices likely differ among students, in part, due to different perceptions of resource value. However, little is known about why particular resources might be considered highly valuable to students, thus driving choice. Utilizing expectancy-value theory for help sources as our theoretical framework, this qualitative study explored life science (LS) graduate students' top three resource choices, their explanations about why they made those choices, and whether students' perceptions of value differed among resources and across demographic groups. We addressed two research questions: 1) What resources do LS graduate students consider to be the most important? 2) What drives LS grad

SUBMITTER: Weatherton M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10756044 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature