Facilitating Growth through Frustration: Using Genomics Research in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience.

ABSTRACT: A hallmark of the research experience is encountering difficulty and working through those challenges to achieve success. This ability is essential to being a successful scientist, but replicating such challenges in a teaching setting can be difficult. The Genomics Education Partnership (GEP) is a consortium of faculty who engage their students in a genomics Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE). Students participate in genome annotation, generating gene models using multiple lines of experimental evidence. Our observations suggested that the students' learning experience is continuous and recursive, frequently beginning with frustration but eventually leading to success as they come up with defendable gene models. In order to explore our "formative frustration" hypothesis,

SUBMITTER: Lopatto D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7048401 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature