The Sense of Belonging Quotient: Relating Sense of Belonging to Predictors of Scientific Civic Engagement and Science Identity in Civically Engaged Curricula.

ABSTRACT: Civic engagement involves an individual's proactive participation in a community to improve its socioeconomic conditions. Scientific civic engagement (SCE) is a variant where students use their scientific expertise to achieve similar effects. Various factors, including family, community, peer groups, and education, influence an individual's likelihood of SCE. In undergraduate biology, civic engagement is sometimes integrated into courses through community-engaged projects or CUREs (Course-based undergraduate research experiences). Investigations into these courses have shown positive outcomes, such as students feeling a greater Sense of belonging to the communities they civically engage with in the course and expressing intentions to pursue more SCE in the future. However, limited research

SUBMITTER: Alam I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12667365 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature