Karen Dunn Lopez, Diana J Wilkie, Yingwei Yao, Vanessa Sousa, Alessandro Febretti, Janet Stifter, Andrew Johnson, Gail M Keenan
Nurses' Numeracy and Graphical Literacy: Informing Studies of Clinical Decision Support Interfaces
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many college students especially firstgeneration underrepresented racialethnic minority students desire courses careers emphasize helping people society instructors introductory science technology engineering math stem courses promote motivation performance equity stem fields emphasizing prosocial relevance course material developed implemented evaluated prosocial utilityvalue intervention uvi course assignment students asked reflect prosocial value biology chemistry course content focus reducing performance gaps firstgeneration continuing generation college students studies 1a 1b piloted two versions prosocial uvi introductory biology n 282 chemistry classes n 1705 test whether could encourage students write prosocial value course content study 2 tested version uvi combines personal prosocial values relative standard uvi emphasizes personal values using randomized controlled trial introductory chemistry course n 2505 examined effects performance motivation course study 3 tested prosocial uvi standard uvi introductory biology course n 712 results suggest prosocial uvi may particularly effective promoting motivation performance firstgeneration college students especially confident perform well class reflecting classic expectancyvalue interaction mediation analyses suggest intervention worked promoting interest chemistry psycinfo database record c 2023 apa rights reserved