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Miriam will lead us in a discussion on 

Student Engagement in the Analysis of Primary Scientific Literature

Reading primary literature is a typical classroom practice that increases critical thinking, scientific literacy, data evaluation, and science process skills.  However, reading research articles can be difficult for students, leading them to not read an article in enough depth and not be engaged in classroom article discussions.  Since motivation factors into how students engage with a task, we wanted to investigate the following research question: “What motivates biology students to read primary literature?” To do this, we held focus groups with 11 undergraduates and asked them about their thoughts and perceptions of this practice.  In this seminar series, Miriam will provide pedagogical recommendations based on her findings and discuss steps to increase the generalizability of their results related to the engagement of scientific literature.
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The ROSE network is funded by the following sponsors:

UAB STEM Initiative

The materials on this website are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. RCN-UBE-1826988.