Investigating the relationship between failure and learning in science courses.
The Research.
We investigate how undergraduate students experience failures in science courses, and how scientists speak of their educational and professional failures.
We seek to understand how students and scientists navigate failures in their contexts and how we can improve science education to support learning from failure experiences.
Research Aims
Characterize how the experiences that students enter STEM courses with influence their experiences of and responses to failure
Aim 1
Characterize how students’ experiences with failure in a science context act to change their views and experiences of failure
Aim 2
Aim 3
Understand how students who hold identities often excluded in STEM disciplines engage with failure in collegiate or scientific settings
Characterize scientists’ coping strategies around educational and professional failures
Aim 4
Understand what supports aid scientists in navigating failure experiences and how scientists harness these supports
