Experienced students likely understand that we routinely omit steps of evolutionary explanations for brevity, if not clarity.
For the upcoming classes, experienced students will get a chance to mentor and teach beginners.
Experienced students often described being treated like a colleague in their research groups.
Experienced students had completed more than two semesters plus one summer of UR.
While novice students were beginning to feel comfortable being around scientists, experienced students were beginning to see themselves as scientists.
Although novice students gain confidence and team skills from research, experienced students consistently report larger gains, regardless of their year in school.
Self-, peer- and tutor-assessment are integral part of PBL tutorials and they're not easy to perform, especially for non experienced students and tutors.
Experienced students rated their gains as higher on items such as analyzing data for patterns, problem solving, and identifying flaws in the interpretation of data.
Experienced students reported distinct personal, professional, and cognitive outcomes relative to their novice peers, including a more sophisticated understanding of the process of scientific research.
Perhaps most importantly, experienced students gained confidence in their abilities as scientific researchers and came to feel that they could be scientists.
Both novice and experienced students discussed developing temperamental characteristics, such as patience and perseverance, that would help them in a scientific career.
