Collaborative Posters Develop Students’ Ability to Communicate about Undervalued Scientific Resources to Nonscientists

Scientists are increasingly called upon to communicate with the public, yet most never receive formal training in this area. Public understanding is particularly critical to maintaining support for undervalued resources such as biological collections, research data repositories, and expensive equipm...

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Autores principales: Teresa J. Mayfield, Jeffrey T. Olimpo, Kevin W. Floyd, Eli Greenbaum
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:17596bc7a8d249e6ae7ef187d636111c2021-11-15T15:04:53ZCollaborative Posters Develop Students’ Ability to Communicate about Undervalued Scientific Resources to Nonscientists10.1128/jmbe.v19i1.14421935-78851935-7877https://doaj.org/article/17596bc7a8d249e6ae7ef187d636111c2018-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.v19i1.1442https://doaj.org/toc/1935-7877https://doaj.org/toc/1935-7885Scientists are increasingly called upon to communicate with the public, yet most never receive formal training in this area. Public understanding is particularly critical to maintaining support for undervalued resources such as biological collections, research data repositories, and expensive equipment. We describe activities carried out in an inquiry-driven organismal biology laboratory course designed to engage a diverse student body using biological collections. The goals of this cooperative learning experience were to increase students’ ability to locate and comprehend primary research articles, and to communicate the importance of an undervalued scientific resource to nonscientists. Our results indicate that collaboratively created, research-focused informational posters are an effective tool for achieving these goals and may be applied in other disciplines or classroom settings.Teresa J. MayfieldJeffrey T. OlimpoKevin W. FloydEli GreenbaumAmerican Society for MicrobiologyarticleSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691Biology (General)QH301-705.5ENJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education, Vol 19, Iss 1 (2018)
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Teresa J. Mayfield
Jeffrey T. Olimpo
Kevin W. Floyd
Eli Greenbaum
Collaborative Posters Develop Students’ Ability to Communicate about Undervalued Scientific Resources to Nonscientists
description Scientists are increasingly called upon to communicate with the public, yet most never receive formal training in this area. Public understanding is particularly critical to maintaining support for undervalued resources such as biological collections, research data repositories, and expensive equipment. We describe activities carried out in an inquiry-driven organismal biology laboratory course designed to engage a diverse student body using biological collections. The goals of this cooperative learning experience were to increase students’ ability to locate and comprehend primary research articles, and to communicate the importance of an undervalued scientific resource to nonscientists. Our results indicate that collaboratively created, research-focused informational posters are an effective tool for achieving these goals and may be applied in other disciplines or classroom settings.
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author Teresa J. Mayfield
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Kevin W. Floyd
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title Collaborative Posters Develop Students’ Ability to Communicate about Undervalued Scientific Resources to Nonscientists
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title_full Collaborative Posters Develop Students’ Ability to Communicate about Undervalued Scientific Resources to Nonscientists
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