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Scientist Spotlights in Secondary Schools: Student Shifts in Multiple Measures Related to Science Identity after Receiving Written Assignments

*Address corresponding to: Dax Ovid (E-mail Address: [email protected]).

Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602

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L’vannah Abrams

San Mateo High School–San Mateo Union High School District, San Mateo, CA 94401

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Wallenberg High School–San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA 94115

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Encinal Junior Senior High School–Alameda Unified School District, Alameda, CA 94501

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Department of Biology, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

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Abraham Lincoln High School–San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA 94116

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Department of Biology, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55404

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Michelle La-Fevre Bernt

San Marin High School–Novato Unified School District, Novato, CA 94945

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Amber Lancaster

Wallenberg High School–San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA 94115

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Christopher Lipski

Hillsdale High School–San Mateo Union High School District, San Mateo, CA 94403

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Joshua Vargas Luna

Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132

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Lucy M. C. Luong

Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132

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Eastside College Preparatory School–Ravenswood School District, Palo Alto, CA 94303

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Mia Janelle Newman

K. International School Tokyo–Tokyo Metropolitan, Koto City, Tokyo 135-0021, Japan

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Carolina Quintero

Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132

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Abraham Lincoln High School–San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA 94116

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Lowell High School–San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA 94132

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Allison James Ross

Hillsdale High School–San Mateo Union High School District, San Mateo, CA 94403

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Department of Biology, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

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Abraham Lincoln High School–San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA 94116

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Department of Biology, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850

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Katherine E. Ward

Aragon High School–San Mateo Union High School District, San Mateo, CA 94402

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Yvonne Lever White

Hayward High School–Hayward Unified School District, Hayward, CA 94541

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Hillsdale High School–San Mateo Union High School District, San Mateo, CA 94403

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Chaffey High School–Chaffey Joint Union High School District, Ontario, CA 91762

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San Mateo High School–San Mateo Union High School District, San Mateo, CA 94401

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Department of Biology, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

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Jeffrey N. Schinske

Department of Biology, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

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Kimberly D. Tanner

Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132

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Sehoya Cotner, Monitoring Editor

Published Online:23 Mar 2023https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.22-07-0149

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Submitted: 1 August 2022

Revised: 2 December 2022

Accepted: 13 February 2023

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© 2023 D. Ovid et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2023 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).

This work would not have been possible without the generous support of our funder. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award no. R25GM129823. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. We express our sincerest gratitude to the teacher-researchers who signed up to contribute to this initiative in the midst of ongoing racial injustices, extreme weather events like wildfires, and the global pandemic. Being a teacher in today’s world is challenging enough, and this scholarship is indebted to your interest and enthusiasm to contribute. We also sincerely appreciate the students for participating, families for consenting, and principals for offering letters of support for teachers to collaborate. The growing Scientist Spotlights database is made possible through the contributions of student-authors/emerging scientists at Foothill Community College, San Francisco State University, and many other institutions. Also, we thank the San Francisco State University Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory (SEPAL) colleagues, both past and present, who offered key insights throughout the development of this project—including Patricia Devera, Lucia Hau, Elleanor Pangilinan, Leticia Rivero, Francisco Sanchez-Vasquez, Katherine White, Maria José Pastor-Infantas, Jarred dela Cruz, Dianna Cazarez, and Kate Gelinas, as well as Dr. Andrea Burton and professors Maurina Aranda, Mallory Rice, and Brie Tripp, who offered constructive comments on the paper. We also acknowledge Dr. Heather Perkins for guidance on using the PCIR instrument in this novel context and Dr. Jennifer Kurushima for invaluable feedback on the article.