TABLE 8.
Science identity after presenting the virtual postera
| Theme | Subtheme | Exemplar quote |
|---|---|---|
| New to, and growing within, the community (9) | Introductory/growing scientist (6) | I would say… I’m definitely involved with the scientific community. But I feel like a little fish, kind of in it. And like, I’ve just recently entered it. I definitely wouldn’t say I’m like, one of the top dogs in it, but I think I’m a part of it. |
| More experience and awareness (2) | I mean, it’s well, I think it’s like another experiment that I’ve done. So, I would say it’s better in my knowledge. So I guess moving forward to that. | |
| More comfortable (1) | I definitely feel more comfortable. I think it’s helped a lot because I wasn’t really sure what to expect, because I’ve never done like a real, genuine poster like that. But I’d say definitely feel more comfortable now. | |
| Feel official like a scientist (8) | I feel like a scientist (3) | I definitely felt like a scientist. Like, I think that sounds kind of, I don’t know, cheesy, but after presenting research… it felt very academic to present it to [faculty] and [other faculty], who are like, academic intellectuals in this field and present, like, our little findings from this semester, and I have to speak in academic terms to explain, you know, what was happening, which felt very sort of, like, official. |
| I feel more official (3) | This poster really made me feel more into the scientific community. And now, it looked just the way it looked very professional. And I think presenting it in front of like, my professors and stuff, they really respected the research that we did. And so that, like, made me feel more you know, accepted into the scientific community. | |
| I did what a scientist would do (2) | I find myself pretty ingrained in it. I felt kind of that way beforehand, as well. Like, I know how to compile data. I know how to interpret data. I know how to relay that data in a concise manner. | |
| Excluded and questioning contribution (7) | Not part of the science community (4) | It’s like having to go on Google Scholar and sift through all these like, super wordy articles that I don’t even know what they’re trying to explain. And it was really just like, “Dang, I’m not a part of this community” like “I have no idea what y’all are talking about. Good for you. But absolutely not for me.” Like, I can’t imagine writing a crazy big article with like, giant words that I don’t even know. |
| Questioning contribution (2) | I mean, if I was thinking about it logically, I would guess I somewhat contributed to the questions that are asked, like by a scientist, but thinking of like all the science that really happens, I don’t know if it was intentional enough to be counted as a credit towards the science community. I don’t know. And I don’t know if it changed my involvement as a scientist. | |
| More educated but not a scientist (1) | I feel like, I’m still not completely there yet. But as I mean, I feel better prepared and more educated on the things so I would consider myself beforehand, kind of a lower middle. And now I would consider myself a higher middle with more experience. | |
| Affiliate of the community (3) | Closer and more connected to community (2) | I see myself closer to the scientific community now that I’ve been able to get our… I’ve been able to present information that I’ve worked on all semester and been able to get it all in poster format, so everybody else can see it and just see what we did. |
| Better collaborator within community (1) | I think it just helped me be a better collaborator within the scientific community, because I’ve done a lot of research, but you kind of got to do it with other people. So it helped me with collaboration within the scientific community. |
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Authors added emphasis to exemplar quotes using italics to showcase the main idea in the quote.