Modifying the CREATE method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literature
ABSTRACT Undergraduate students need the opportunity to engage with primary scientific literature so they can gain a greater understanding of the scientific process and insights into the larger impacts of scientific research in their field. Reading primary scientific literature (PSL) also provides t...
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| description | ABSTRACT Undergraduate students need the opportunity to engage with primary scientific literature so they can gain a greater understanding of the scientific process and insights into the larger impacts of scientific research in their field. Reading primary scientific literature (PSL) also provides the opportunity for students to consider the application of primary scientific research to help solve socioscientific issues. Helping students consider more inclusive approaches to science communication can facilitate their connections between primary scientific research and collaborative solving of socioscientific issues. The CREATE method by Hoskins et al. is one pre-existing method of reading scientific papers that gives students a structured opportunity to examine papers. The CREATE method gives students the opportunity to practice scientific process skills, reflect on the impact of research, and consider future studies. We have added an additional element to the CREATE method to help students consider other areas of expertise and ways of knowing needed to apply science in the article to solve socioscientific issues, helping them take a more inclusive approach to reading the PSL. We have deemed this activity ‘inclusive-CREATE’ or iCREATE. Here, we present a curricular plan for implementing iCREATE and show evidence of its efficacy. For instance, we show that the iCREATE method increases students’ science and science communication identity and self-efficacy. We also show that iCREATE increases students’ inclusive science communication self-efficacy, intents, and planned behaviors. Overall, adding a more inclusive element to the CREATE method will help students feel more confident, more like a scientist, and more likely to engage in inclusive science communication behaviors. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2f8cdcbfeb6d410ba4769c42b8134a2d2025-08-21T13:02:40ZengAmerican Society for MicrobiologyJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education1935-78771935-78852025-08-0126210.1128/jmbe.00078-25Modifying the CREATE method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literatureDelaney Worthington0Nicole Kelp1Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USADepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USAABSTRACT Undergraduate students need the opportunity to engage with primary scientific literature so they can gain a greater understanding of the scientific process and insights into the larger impacts of scientific research in their field. Reading primary scientific literature (PSL) also provides the opportunity for students to consider the application of primary scientific research to help solve socioscientific issues. Helping students consider more inclusive approaches to science communication can facilitate their connections between primary scientific research and collaborative solving of socioscientific issues. The CREATE method by Hoskins et al. is one pre-existing method of reading scientific papers that gives students a structured opportunity to examine papers. The CREATE method gives students the opportunity to practice scientific process skills, reflect on the impact of research, and consider future studies. We have added an additional element to the CREATE method to help students consider other areas of expertise and ways of knowing needed to apply science in the article to solve socioscientific issues, helping them take a more inclusive approach to reading the PSL. We have deemed this activity ‘inclusive-CREATE’ or iCREATE. Here, we present a curricular plan for implementing iCREATE and show evidence of its efficacy. For instance, we show that the iCREATE method increases students’ science and science communication identity and self-efficacy. We also show that iCREATE increases students’ inclusive science communication self-efficacy, intents, and planned behaviors. Overall, adding a more inclusive element to the CREATE method will help students feel more confident, more like a scientist, and more likely to engage in inclusive science communication behaviors.https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.00078-25primary scientific literatureinclusivescience communicationsocioscientific issuesCREATEscience identity |
| spellingShingle | Delaney Worthington Nicole Kelp Modifying the CREATE method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literature Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education primary scientific literature inclusive science communication socioscientific issues CREATE science identity |
| title | Modifying the CREATE method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literature |
| title_full | Modifying the CREATE method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literature |
| title_fullStr | Modifying the CREATE method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modifying the CREATE method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literature |
| title_short | Modifying the CREATE method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literature |
| title_sort | modifying the create method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literature |
| topic | primary scientific literature inclusive science communication socioscientific issues CREATE science identity |
| url | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.00078-25 |
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