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Despite Similar Perceptions and Attitudes, Postbaccalaureate Students Outperform in Introductory Biology and Chemistry Courses

Erin E. Shortlidge

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Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201

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Liz Rain-Griffith

Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201

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Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201

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Gwendolyn P. Shusterman

Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201

STEM Education and Equity Institute, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201

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Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201

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Published Online:25 Jan 2019https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.17-12-0289

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Submitted: 2 January 2018

Revised: 24 October 2018

Accepted: 30 October 2018

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© 2019 E. E. Shortlidge et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2019 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

We thank the students and instructors who either participated or gave extra credit for participation and Kathryn Hosbein and Emily Olsen for help with data collection. We also thank the three anonymous LSE reviewers for their helpful suggestions for revision. This research was supported in part by an award to PSU under the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Education Program (award 52008105 to G.P.S.).