{"id":1122,"date":"2022-09-26T15:20:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:12:26","slug":"science-communication-courses-impact-student-perceptions-of-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/2022\/09\/science-communication-courses-impact-student-perceptions-of-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Communication Courses Impact Student Perceptions of Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Science education and communication students do not often see themselves as scientists although the future of science is highly dependent upon effective science communication. Dr. Fallys Masambuka-Kanchewa<\/a>, previous post doc in the Lamm Lab and Dr. Alexa Lamm<\/a> were interested in determining if a science communication course could alter graduate students\u2019 perceptions of scientists and their own self-perception as a scientist. Using a semiotic approach and the Draw-A-Scientist-Test students were asked to draw an image of a scientist based on their perceptions on the first and last day of a 16-week science communication graduate-level course. Analysis of the images prior to the course indicated failure by students to perceive themselves as scientists. After taking the course, participants depicted being a scientist as a process and described scientists based on their roles. The participants\u2019 failure to identify themselves as scientists before the class indicates a gap in educating students about the diversity of scientific roles within society and the academy. As such there is need for a comprehensive review of course offerings at the undergraduate level to ensure students are not only equipped with scientific knowledge but that they develop a clear understanding of who a scientist is as well as the roles of scientists. The full study is printed in the NACTA Journal <\/em>and can be found here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Science education and communication students do not often see themselves as scientists although the future of science is highly dependent upon effective science communication. Dr. Fallys Masambuka-Kanchewa, previous post doc in the Lamm Lab and Dr. Alexa Lamm were interested in determining if a science communication course could alter graduate students\u2019 perceptions of scientists and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,26,19],"tags":[10,36],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cognition","category-teaching_and_learning","category-university-sci-comm","tag-lamm","tag-lamm-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}