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Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) represent an innovative educational strategy to engage more science, technology, engineering, and math undergraduates in authentic research experiences. Research shows that student participation in CUREs results in positive student outcomes sim...
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American Society for Microbiology
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9429884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36061328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00024-22 |
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description | Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) represent an innovative educational strategy to engage more science, technology, engineering, and math undergraduates in authentic research experiences. Research shows that student participation in CUREs results in positive student outcomes similar to those for traditional research experiences. However, less is known about how the research focus of a CURE or the varied emphasis on certain CURE design elements can impact student outcomes. CUREs provide a unique opportunity to infuse training essential for future researchers. Although responsible and ethical conduct is an important component of research and scientific practice, limited attention has been paid to incorporation and assessment of responsible and ethical conduct of research (RECR) in CUREs. Here, we address the gap in CURE RECR training by presenting an activity that can be easily built into any CURE or inquiry-based lab to train students in RECR relative to data management, specifically, the lab notebook. In this activity, students are asked to replicate or execute an experiment with only the records of a previous student’s lab notebook. This previous student’s notebook is purposefully designed by the instructor to miss important information that might not seem obvious to students but would prevent a future researcher from replicating the experiment. The idea is to create an early understanding of delayed gratification for students when it comes to responsible and ethical maintenance of lab notebooks. This activity is paired with a pre- and postactivity lecture and debriefing to instruct, guide, and reflect with students on RECR surrounding lab notebooks as well as iterative practice and assessment of lab notebooks throughout the semester. |
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spelling | pubmed-94298842022-09-01 Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Hills, Sonia Light, Caitlin J. J Microbiol Biol Educ Curriculum Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) represent an innovative educational strategy to engage more science, technology, engineering, and math undergraduates in authentic research experiences. Research shows that student participation in CUREs results in positive student outcomes similar to those for traditional research experiences. However, less is known about how the research focus of a CURE or the varied emphasis on certain CURE design elements can impact student outcomes. CUREs provide a unique opportunity to infuse training essential for future researchers. Although responsible and ethical conduct is an important component of research and scientific practice, limited attention has been paid to incorporation and assessment of responsible and ethical conduct of research (RECR) in CUREs. Here, we address the gap in CURE RECR training by presenting an activity that can be easily built into any CURE or inquiry-based lab to train students in RECR relative to data management, specifically, the lab notebook. In this activity, students are asked to replicate or execute an experiment with only the records of a previous student’s lab notebook. This previous student’s notebook is purposefully designed by the instructor to miss important information that might not seem obvious to students but would prevent a future researcher from replicating the experiment. The idea is to create an early understanding of delayed gratification for students when it comes to responsible and ethical maintenance of lab notebooks. This activity is paired with a pre- and postactivity lecture and debriefing to instruct, guide, and reflect with students on RECR surrounding lab notebooks as well as iterative practice and assessment of lab notebooks throughout the semester. American Society for Microbiology 2022-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9429884/ /pubmed/36061328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00024-22 Text en Copyright © 2022 Hills and Light. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Curriculum Hills, Sonia Light, Caitlin J. Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience |
title | Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience |
title_full | Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience |
title_fullStr | Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience |
title_short | Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience |
title_sort | training for responsible and ethical management of lab notebooks in a course-based undergraduate research experience |
topic | Curriculum |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9429884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36061328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00024-22 |
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