Challenges and opportunities to build quantitative self-confidence in biologists
Challenges and opportunities to build quantitative self-confidence in biologists
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DOI：
10.1093/biosci/biad015
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发表时间：
2023-04-29
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
White，Easton R.
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作者：
Cuddington，Kim;Abbott，Karen C.;White，Easton R.
生物学专业的新研究生可能缺乏他们的研究和职业生涯所必需的定量技能。这些技能的获得可能会受到教学和辅导经验的阻碍，这些经验会降低而不是增加学生对学习和应用定量方法的能力的信念。在这篇评论文章中，我们认为，修改教学经验，以确保学生的信心和定量技能得到提高，可以提高教育成果和职业成功。一些研究表明，在教学环境中明确解决生产失败并确保有效的指导可能是同时提高定量自我效能和定量技能的最有效途径。然而，很少有专门针对研究生需求的工作，需要更多的研究才能得出有证据支持的结论。
New graduate students in biology programs may lack the quantitative skills necessary for their research and professional careers. The acquisition of these skills may be impeded by teaching and mentoring experiences that decrease rather than increase students’ beliefs in their ability to learn and apply quantitative approaches. In this opinion piece, we argue that revising instructional experiences to ensure that both student confidence and quantitative skills are enhanced may improve both educational outcomes and professional success. A few studies suggest that explicitly addressing productive failure in an instructional setting and ensuring effective mentoring may be the most effective routes to simultaneously increasing both quantitative self-efficacy and quantitative skills. However, there is little work that specifically addresses graduate student needs, and more research is required to reach evidence-backed conclusions.