"Important enough to show the world": Using Authentic Research Opportunities and Micropublications to Build Students' Science Identities.
"Important enough to show the world": Using Authentic Research Opportunities and Micropublications to Build Students' Science Identities.
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“重要到足以向世界展示”：利用真实的研究机会和微型出版物来建立学生的科学身份。
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10.1101/2023.08.17.553701
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2023
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Rubenstein,EricM
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Rubenstein,LisaDaVia;Woodruff,KelseyA;Taylor,AprilM;Olesen,JamesB;Smaldino,PhilipJ;Rubenstein,EricM
由于“食谱驱动”的实验室课程和传统科学出版物所需的全面工作，优先级本科院校（PUI）往往难以提供真正的研究机会，最终在同行评审的出版物中达到高潮。然而，短格式，单一数字的“微型出版物”的出现为早期职业科学家创造了新的机会，使他们能够在与他们的培训期相适应的规模和时间范围内做出和发表真正的科学贡献。这个定性的案例研究的目的是探讨八个本科生和硕士生谁参加了真实的，小规模的研究项目，并传播他们的工作作为同行评议的微型出版物在PUI的合著者所产生的好处。在这些采访中，学生报告说，通过进行和发表他们的研究过程中，他们开发了具体的能力：阅读科学文献，提出实验，并收集/解释值得发表的数据。此外，他们报告说，这一过程使他们能够确定更大的科学界的贡献成员。
Primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) often struggle to provide authentic research opportunities that culminate in peer-reviewed publications due to “recipe-driven” lab courses and the comprehensive body of work necessary for traditional scientific publication. However, the advent of short-form, single-figure “micropublications” has created novel opportunities for early-career scientists to make and publish authentic scientific contributions on a scale and in a timespan compatible with their training periods. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore the benefits accrued by eight undergraduate and master’s students who participated in authentic, small-scale research projects and disseminated their work as coauthors of peer-reviewed micropublications at a PUI. In these interviews, students reported that through the process of conducting and publishing their research, they developed specific competencies: reading scientific literature, proposing experiments, and collecting/interpreting publication-worthy data. Further, they reported this process enabled them to identify as contributing members of the greater scientific community.