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The Disproportionate Impact of Fear of Negative Evaluation on First-Generation College Students, LGBTQ+ Students, and Students with Disabilities in College Science Courses

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Nicholas J. Wiesenthal

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Tasneem F. Mohammed

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Shauna Anderson

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Margaret Barstow

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Cydney Custalow

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Cynthia K. Gilabert

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Brieana Robnett

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Kaytlin Tillett

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Lauren Tsefrekas

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Emma C. Goodwin

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Katelyn M. Cooper

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Published Online:22 Jun 2023https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.22-10-0195

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Submitted: 4 October 2022

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© 2023 C. A. Busch, N. J. Wiesenthal, 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 4.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0).

We thank Dr. Yi Zheng for her feedback on the statistical approaches to this study. We thank the instructors who were willing to share our survey with their students and the undergraduates who were willing to participate in our study. We are extremely grateful to Dr. Ara Austin and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University for the development of the Online Undergraduate Research Scholars (OURS) program, which partially funded this course-based undergraduate research experience for ASU undergraduates enrolled in the online bachelor of science degree programs. C.A.B., N.J.W., and T.F.M. are supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowships (grant no. 026257-001). This project built upon conclusions from a meeting that brought together psychologists, psychiatrists, student support specialists, and biology education researchers. This meeting identified FNE as the most pressing factor underlying student anxiety in active learning and was supported by an NSF RCN-UBE Incubator award (no. 2018902). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.