An inclusive Research Education Community (iREC): Impact of the SEA-PHAGES program on research outcomes and student learning

Significance The Science Education Alliance–Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science program is an inclusive Research Education Community with centralized programmatic and scientific support, in which broad student engagement in authentic science is linked to increased accessibility to research experiences for students; increased persistence of these students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; and increased scientific productivity for students and faculty alike. Engaging undergraduate students in scientific research promises substantial benefits, but it is not accessible to all students and is rarely implemented early in college education, when it will have the greatest impact. An inclusive Research Education Community (iREC) provides a centralized scientific and administrative infrastructure enabling engagement of large numbers of students at different types of institutions. The Science Education Alliance–Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (SEA-PHAGES) is an iREC that promotes engagement and continued involvement in science among beginning undergraduate students. The SEA-PHAGES students show strong gains correlated with persistence relative to those in traditional laboratory courses regardless of academic, ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic profiles. This persistent involvement in science is reflected in key measures, including project ownership, scientific community values, science identity, and scientific networking.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2017-12-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Engineering, Environmental Science, Psychology, Medicine, Education

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1718188115PMID 29208718PMCID 5754813
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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