PILOTing Undergraduate Students to Hands-On Teaching and Research Skills.

ABSTRACT: Undergraduate research can make a positive impact on science education. Unfortunately, the one student-one mentor paradigm of undergraduate research generates a wide range of variability in the student's experience and further limits its availability to a select few students. In contrast, a single faculty member can offer multiple undergraduate teaching positions that provide a consistent experience for the student. We attempted to combine the undergraduate research and teaching experiences in an internship practicum called Peer Instruction and Laboratory Occupational Training (PILOT). Students enrolled in PILOT served as teaching assistants for the upper division Quantitative Biological Methods (QBM) laboratory course. In addition, PILOT students worked on an independent lab project that

SUBMITTER: Borgon RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3706164 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature