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- Title
Student and Faculty Views on Process of Science Skills at a Large, Research-Intensive University.
- Authors
Addis, Elizabeth A.; Powell-Coffman, Jo Anne
- Abstract
The Association of American Colleges and Universities ranks multiple process of science (POS) skills among the top-10 skills employers seek in college graduates. As part of an effort to explore and align the emphasis on POS skills in our science departments, we sought three things: (a) to determine if faculty and students felt enough time was devoted to POS skills, (b) to identify the skills that science students and faculty felt were important to acquire from an undergraduate education, and (c) to evaluate whether there were differences in these views among disciplines. We found that faculty and students agreed on the amount of time spent in class on POS skills, but students thought that amount of time was sufficient, whereas faculty did not. Further, students and faculty placed a high importance on the POS skills of problem solving/critical thinking, communicating results, and interpreting data. We did not find differences among faculty of different science disciplines on the most highly ranked POS skills, but we did in students. The findings of this study have informed curricular discussions and decisions.
- Subjects
COLLEGE graduates; CRITICAL thinking; ASSOCIATION of American Colleges &; Universities; SCIENCE students; RESEARCH universities &; colleges
- Publication
Journal of College Science Teaching, 2018, Vol 47, Issue 4, p72
- ISSN
0047-231X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2505/4/jcst18_047_04_72