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ArticleCBE life sciences education2018

How to Identify the Research Abilities That Instructors Anticipate Students Will Develop in a Biochemistry Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE).

Stefan Mark Irby, Nancy J Pelaez, Trevor R Anderson

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Article in CBE life sciences education, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Developing and applying computational resources for biochemistry education.Biochemistry and molecular biology education : a bimonthly publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2020
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  6. Implementation and Evaluation of a Biochemistry Research Skills CURE for First-Year R1 University Students.Biochemistry and molecular biology education : a bimonthly publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stefan Mark IrbyDepartment of Chemistry, Purdue University, West -Lafayette, IN 47906.
Nancy J PelaezDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West -Lafayette, IN 47906.
Trevor R AndersonDepartment of Chemistry, Purdue University, West -Lafayette, IN 47906.
Purdue University West Lafayette · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been described in a range of educational contexts. Although various anticipated learning outcomes (ALOs) have been proposed, processes for identifying them may not be rigorous or well documented, which can lead to inappropriate assessment and speculation about what students actually learn from CUREs. In this essay, we offer a user-friendly and rigorous approach based on evidence and an easy process to identify ALOs, namely, a five-step Process for Identifying Course-Based Undergraduate Research Abilities (PICURA), consisting of a content analysis, an open-ended survey, an interview, an alignment check, and a two-tiered Likert survey. The development of PICURA was guided by four criteria: 1) the process is iterative, 2) the overall process gives more insight than individual data sources, 3) the steps of the process allow for consensus across the data sources, and 4) the process allows for prioritization of the identified abilities. To address these criteria, we collected data from 10 participants in a multi-institutional biochemistry CURE. In this essay, we use two selected research abilities to illustrate how PICURA was used to identify and prioritize such abilities. PICURA could be applied to other CUREs in other contexts.

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