Why did students report lower test anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic?

SN Ewell, CC Josefson, CJ Ballen - Journal of microbiology & …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Test anxiety is a common experience shared by college students and is typically
investigated in the context of traditional, face-to-face courses. However, the onset of the …

Analysis of barriers, supports and gender gap in the choice of STEM studies in secondary education

N Merayo, A Ayuso - International Journal of Technology and Design …, 2023 - Springer
Society is more digitised than ever and there is an urgent need to train people in these
sectors, where women are still under-represented. A quantitative descriptive, correlational …

Understanding a STEM teacher's emotions and professional identities: A three-year longitudinal case study

H Jiang, K Wang, X Wang, X Lei, Z Huang - International Journal of STEM …, 2021 - Springer
Background Teacher emotions are sometimes underplayed in the research field of teaching
and teacher education. Also, teachers often undergo transformations in their professional …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperative learning goes online: teaching and learning intervention in a digital environment impacts psychosocial outcomes in biology students

A Møgelvang, V Vandvik, S Ellingsen… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Identifying evidence-based teaching and learning strategies that can ease teacher
challenges and mitigate student concerns in digital settings becomes increasingly important …

Gendered performance gaps in an upper-division biology course: Academic, demographic, environmental, and affective factors

VS Farrar, BYC Aguayo, N Caporale - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2023 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Despite the existent gender parity in undergraduate biology degree attainment, gendered
differences in outcomes are prevalent in introductory biology courses. Less is known about …

Research anxiety predicts undergraduates' intentions to pursue scientific research careers

KM Cooper, SL Eddy, SE Brownell - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2023 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Undergraduate research is lauded as a high-impact practice owing to the array of benefits
that students can reap from participating. One unexplored construct that may affect student …

Higher education and science popularization: can they achieve coordinated growth?

Y Geng, Y Yan - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
This study aims to explore whether higher education and science popularization can
achieve coordinated growth with temporal and spatial characteristics. Selecting the …

Impact of anxiety and confidence in virtual reality‐mediated learning transferred to hands‐on tasks

WS Wang, YP Cheng, HY Lee, CJ Lin… - Journal of Computer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Benefited from advances in technology, virtual reality (VR) has been widely
applied to learning content in operational training as well as hands‐on courses. However …

Gender identity and student perceptions of peer research aptitude in CUREs and traditional laboratory courses in the biological sciences

D Esparza, AA Hernández-Gaytan… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2023 - Am Soc Cell Biol
While several studies have investigated gender inequities in the social learning environment
of biology lecture courses, that same phenomenon remains largely unexplored in biology …

Context matters: social psychological factors that underlie academic performance across seven institutions

S Salehi, SA Berk, R Brunelli, S Cotner… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2021 - Am Soc Cell Biol
To enhance equity and diversity in undergraduate biology, recent research in biology
education focuses on best practices that reduce learning barriers for all students and …