The Impact of Broadly Relevant Novel Discoveries on Student Project Ownership in a Traditional Lab Course Turned CURE
The Impact of Broadly Relevant Novel Discoveries on Student Project Ownership in a Traditional Lab Course Turned CURE
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DOI：
10.1187/cbe.19-06-0113
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发表时间：
2019-12-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Brownell, Sara E.
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作者：
Cooper, Katelyn M.;Blattman, Joseph N.;Brownell, Sara E.
以课程为基础的本科研究经验（CURES）已被证明会给学生带来多种好处，但关于CURES如何导致特定的学生成果还不清楚。在这项研究中，我们研究了学生在多大程度上使“广泛相关的新发现”影响学生项目所有权的比较学生在一个治愈和传统的标签课程的经验。CURE和传统选项卡在大多数方面都是相似的;学生们接触到由同一位教师教授的相同课程。然而，这两种类型的课程之间有一个主要的区别：学生产生的数据类型。传统选项卡中的学生描述了野生型小鼠的免疫系统，从而证实了科学界已知的结果，而CURE中的学生描述了突变小鼠的免疫系统，产生了广泛相关的新发现。与传统的实验室学生相比，CURE学生对他们的项目报告了更高的认知和情感所有权。学生对合作和做出广泛相关的新发现的看法与他们的认知和情感所有权显著正相关。这项工作提供了深入了解整合的机会，广泛相关的新发现在标签课程的重要性。
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been shown to lead to multiple student benefits, but much is unknown about how CUREs lead to specific student outcomes. In this study, we examined the extent to which students making "broadly relevant novel discoveries" impacted student project ownership by comparing the experiences of students in a CURE and a traditional tab course. The CURE and traditional tab were similar in most aspects; students were exposed to an identical curriculum taught by the same instructor. However, there was one major difference between the two types of courses: the type of data that the students produced. Students in the traditional tab characterized the immune system of wild-type mice, thereby confirming results already known to the scientific community, while students in the CURE characterized the immune system of a mutant strain of mice, which produced broadly relevant novel discoveries. Compared with traditional lab students, CURE students reported higher cognitive and emotional ownership over their projects. Students' perceptions of collaboration and making broadly relevant novel discoveries were significantly and positively related to their cognitive and emotional ownership. This work provides insight into the importance of integrating opportunities for broadly relevant novel discoveries in tab courses.