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SUMMARY:Failing (In Order) to Succeed: Exploring How Challenge and Failure 
 in Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) Can Become a Le
 arning Opportunity
LOCATION:Biology 136
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20240403T160000
UID:2026-05-13-06-31-00@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260513T063100
Description:Research-based courses have been lauded for involving more stud
 ents in undergraduate research and providing students with opportunities t
 o achieve positive outcomes that they may not achieve in traditional labor
 atory settings. One such outcome\, which is yet underexplored\, is the dev
 elopment of an ability to navigate scientific obstacles both cognitively a
 nd emotionally. This outcome is important since the ability to navigate ob
 stacles and failures is considered a hallmark of a scientific disposition 
 and has been hypothesized to increase students’ persistence in STEM. Res
 earch-based courses such as CUREs offer unique opportunities for students 
 to achieve this outcome by engaging them in authentic research that afford
 s students opportunities to grapple with challenge and failure in a suppor
 tive environment. Yet\, there is little research that investigates this ou
 tcome or strives to unpack how STEM students develop the ability to see fa
 ilure as an opportunity to learn - an epistemic experience - as opposed to
  a setback. This talk explores students’ engagement with failure in rese
 arch-based courses\, how their unique identities influence their views of 
 failure\, and how we\, as STEM instructors\, might scaffold failure experi
 ences to frame them as epistemic. We will apply prior research and theory 
 to predict how students’ failure experiences influence their future enga
 gement with STEM challenges. 4:00 pm
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