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Depression as a Concealable Stigmatized Identity: What Influences Whether Students Conceal or Reveal Their Depression in Undergraduate Research Experiences?
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Cooper, Katelyn M.; Gin, Logan E.; Brownell, Sara E. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Background: Concealable stigmatized identities (CSIs) are identities that can be kept hidden or invisible and that carry negative stereotypes. Depression is one of the most common CSIs among undergraduates. However, to our knowledge, no studies have explored how students manage depression as a CSI in the context of undergraduate research, a…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Social Bias, Stereotypes, Depression (Psychology)
Differential Impacts of Religious Cultural Competence on Students' Perceived Conflict with Evolution at an Evangelical University
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Barnes, M. Elizabeth; Werner, Ruth; Brownell, Sara E. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Evolution remains a controversial issue in the United States, particularly for evangelical Christians, who as a group have been a key player in anti-evolution education legislation. Religious cultural competence can be effective in decreasing undergraduate biology students' perceived conflict between religion and evolution. However, the impact on…
Descriptors: Evolution, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Christianity, Religion
BioCore Guide: A Tool for Interpreting the Core Concepts of Vision and Change for Biology Majors
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Brownell, Sara E.; Freeman, Scott; Wenderoth, Mary Pat; Crowe, Alison J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2014
"Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education" outlined five core concepts intended to guide undergraduate biology education: 1) evolution; 2) structure and function; 3) information flow, exchange, and storage; 4) pathways and transformations of energy and matter; and 5) systems. We have taken these general recommendations and…
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Guides
Toward a Conceptual Framework for Measuring the Effectiveness of Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences in Undergraduate Biology
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Brownell, Sara E.; Kloser, Matthew J. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Recent calls for reform have advocated for extensive changes to undergraduate science lab experiences, namely providing more authentic research experiences for students. Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) have attempted to eschew the limitations of traditional "cookbook" laboratory exercises and have received…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Guidelines
A High-Enrollment Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Improves Student Conceptions of Scientific Thinking and Ability to Interpret Data
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Brownell, Sara E.; Hekmat-Scafe, Daria S.; Singla, Veena; Seawell, Patricia Chandler; Imam, Jamie F. Conklin; Eddy, Sarah L.; Stearns, Tim; Cyert, Martha S. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2015
We present an innovative course-based undergraduate research experience curriculum focused on the characterization of single point mutations in p53, a tumor suppressor gene that is mutated in more than 50% of human cancers. This course is required of all introductory biology students, so all biology majors engage in a research project as part of…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Science Instruction, Science Education, College Science
A Writing-Intensive Course Improves Biology Undergraduates' Perception and Confidence of Their Abilities to Read Scientific Literature and Communicate Science
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Brownell, Sara E.; Price, Jordan V.; Steinman, Lawrence – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
Most scientists agree that comprehension of primary scientific papers and communication of scientific concepts are two of the most important skills that we can teach, but few undergraduate biology courses make these explicit course goals. We designed an undergraduate neuroimmunology course that uses a writing-intensive format. Using a mixture of…
Descriptors: Biology, Audiences, Communication Skills, Scientific Concepts