TABLE 1.
Overview of assessments on Art of Microbiology curriculum
| Category | Semestera |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2016 | Spring 2017 | Fall 2017 | Spring 2018 | Fall 2019 | |
| Curriculum | Traditional | Agar art CURE | Agar art CURE | Agar art CURE | Agar art CURE |
| Class code/student cohort | UAB00/R1 200-level (n = 33) | UAB0/R1 200-level (n = 15) | UAB1/R1 200-level (n = 18) | UAB2/R1 200-level (n = 39) | JSCC/CC 200-level (n = 25) |
| Survey format | Paper | Paper | Paper | Paper | Paper |
| Pre/postassessments | PITS (post only) | PITS (post only) | NOS | NOS | NOS |
| Interval assessments | None | None | ASPECT | ASPECT | None |
| Interviews | Offered, no participants | Post | 3 intervals | 3 intervals | Post |
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Italic font represents previously published research (18). Agar art CURE, use of Art of Microbiology curriculum; UAB00 and UAB0, previous iterations of microbiology taught at UAB; R1, research-intensive university; CC, community college; PITS, persistence in the sciences.