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A Letter to a Young Scientist: Prompting Students To Reflect On And Recognize Their Own Growth As Scientists

Author(s): Stephanie Conant1, Tom D'Elia2, Arturo Diaz3, Denise L Monti4, Richard Pollenz5, Vassie Ware6, Kathy Takayama7, Viknesh Sivanathan7

1. University of Detroit Mercy 2. Indian River State College 3. La Sierra University 4. University of Alabama at Birmingham 5. University of South Florida 6. Lehigh University 7. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Summary:
This activity is designed to prompt students to reflect on and recognize their own growth as scientists and, consequently, may help develop student self-efficacy and science identity.

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Version 1.0 - published on 06 Aug 2020 doi:10.25334/CBP1-T733 - cite this

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  1. Sarah Swerdlow @ on   (Edited: @ on )

    Thank you for this activity.  I did this with my students in the Bioinformatics portion and it was great. The students shared how they felt on the first day of lab and how confused they were, and went on to discuss how much better it got and how proud they were once they finished the genome. 

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