Teaching and Assessing Experimental Design and Scientific Presentation Skills in a Graduate Molecular Biology Course
Date and Time
May 23, 2018
02:00PM - 03:30PM EDT
Location
Bibring Conference Room, 2nd floor Gordon Hall
CFP/RISE Meeting on Science Education
Madhvi Venkatesh, PhD Curriculum Fellow, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Experimental design and science communication are often cited as essential skills for trainees in the sciences, but they are not uniformly taught or assessed across graduate or undergraduate curricula. In this seminar, we will describe our strategies for embedding training in experimental design and scientific presentation in our graduate Principles of Molecular Biology course. We will also discuss the ways in which we are assessing changes in self-efficacy and student performance in these skills.