Research Reflections/Digital Communication
Implementation context: Implemented in Lab or CURE courses where students routinely encounter research failures (e.g., a failed DNA extraction), challenge, or ambiguity.
Brief description: Students are prompted to reflect on their responses to research failures or challenges in written form throughout the term. Near the end of term, students use these reflections as inspiration to create a digital communication product (e.g. video, podcast) sharing insights about how to learn from failure with their peers. The goal is to encourage a growth mindset, mastery goal orientation, and productive coping skills. Digital communication assignments from one year can be shown to students in the subsequent year to enable peer-to-peer communication regarding the importance of failure as a part of the learning process.
