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Graduate Students' Motivation To Teach Plant Sciences To K-12 Audiences, Melissa Leiden Welsh
Graduate Students' Motivation To Teach Plant Sciences To K-12 Audiences, Melissa Leiden Welsh
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Graduate students' motivation to share their knowledge and research with K-12 audiences as future scientists is informed by their beliefs and perceived value of science literacy outreach. Graduate training programs in academia integrate outreach teaching components to equip future scientists with a variety of communication skills, which may reflect either a transmission of knowledge to the learner or through engagement with the learner. As such, the education component of the "Partnership for Research and Education in Plant Breeding and Genetics" grant sought to train graduate plant science students ( N = 17) to disseminate their research to K-12 audiences. Graduate …