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High school science fair: Positive and negative outcomes
AbstractThe goal of our ongoing research is to identify strengths and weaknesses of high school level science fair and improvements that can help science educators make science... -
How repeated exposure to informal science education affects content knowledge...
Over two million men, women, and youth are incarcerated in the United States. This large and ethnically diverse population has, in general, more limited exposure to education,... -
Career Coaches as a Source of Vicarious Learning for Racial and Ethnic Minori...
Introduction Many recent mentoring initiatives have sought to help improve the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URMs) in academic positions across... -
Peru and its new challenge in higher education: Towards a research university
The paradigm of research universities linked to the emergence of university rankings has unified and universalized the criteria relating to the quality of higher education. This... -
Would you like to leave Beijing, Shanghai, or Shenzhen? An empirical analysis...
: This study aims to estimate the migration effect of the overall samples and different flowing scales for the floating population from the perspective of personal wages.... -
The reasons behind medicine shortages from the perspective of pharmaceutical ...
The aim of this study was to explore the reasons behind medicine shortages from the perspective of pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical wholesalers in Finland. The study... -
Heterogeneous groups overcome the diffusion of responsibility problem in soci...
Social norms promote cooperation in everyday life because many people are willing to negatively sanction norm breakers at a cost to themselves. However, a norm violation may... -
Factors that predict life sciences student persistence in undergraduate resea...
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have the potential to benefit undergraduates and longer UREs have been shown to lead to greater benefits for students. However, no... -
Engagement present and future: Graduate student and faculty perceptions of so...
Interest in public engagement with science activities has grown in recent decades, especially engagement through social media and among graduate students. Research on... -
Evaluation of a mid-career investigator career development award: Assessing t...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) K18 award mechanism provides funded opportunities for established investigators to gain knowledge in fields outside of their primary... -
Faculty perceptions and knowledge of career development of trainees in biomed...
The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program is an NIH-funded effort testing the impact of career development interventions (e.g. internships, workshops,... -
Perceptions of scientific research literature and strategies for reading pape...
Reading primary research literature is an essential skill for all scientists and students on science degree programmes, however little is known about how researchers at... -
The Effects of Stability and Presentation Order of Rewards on Justice Evaluat...
Justice research has evolved by elucidating the factors that affect justice evaluations, as well as their consequences. Unfortunately, few researchers have paid attention to the... -
Exploring the role of interdisciplinarity in physics: Success, talent and luck
Although interdisciplinarity is often touted as a necessity for modern research, the evidence on the relative impact of sectorial versus to interdisciplinary science is... -
Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and A...
Little is known about the climate of the scientific fieldwork setting as it relates to gendered experiences, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. We conducted an... -
The Role of Gender in the Employment, Career Perception and Research Performa...
Recent decades have seen a sharp increase in the number of female PhD graduates in the Netherlands. Currently, the share of females among newly graduated PhDs is almost on par... -
Stakeholder perspectives on large-scale marine protected areas
Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs), MPAs greater than 100,000km2, have proliferated in the past decade. However, the value of LSMPAs as conservation tools is debated,... -
Expert opinion on metal chains and other indestructible objects as proper enr...
EC Directive 2001/93 requires that all pigs have access to proper investigation and manipulation materials. Intensively farmed pigs in Europe are frequently provided with a... -
Scientists' Prioritization of Communication Objectives for Public Engagement.
Amid calls from scientific leaders for their colleagues to become more effective public communicators, this study examines the objectives that scientists’ report drive their... -
You don’t have to be rich to save money: On the relationship between objectiv...
Saving is an important financial behavior that provides an individual with psychological security and boosts his/her overall sense of well-being. For this reason, scientists and...
