Factors impacting teaching and research anxieties in biology graduate teaching assistants: implications for professional development.

ABSTRACT: Graduate students in the United States are experiencing increased levels of anxiety, affecting their mental health and attrition from graduate programs. Yet, we are only beginning to understand how anxiety about specific aspects of graduate study, such as teaching or research, might contribute to this overall anxiety related to graduate study. Biology graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) often have simultaneous roles as teachers, researchers, students, and employees. The most salient roles are often as teachers and researchers, which can have different values ascribed to them by science departments, and thus generate anxiety in different ways. To explore the factors GTAs identified as impacting their anxiety specific to teaching and research, we interviewed 23 Biology GTAs at a research-int

SUBMITTER: Musgrove MMC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12369371 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature