TABLE 9.
Science communication self-efficacy before presenting the virtual postera
| Theme | Subtheme | Exemplar quote |
|---|---|---|
| Unchanging confidence (12) | Not confident (7) | I’m not too shy of an individual, but would like maybe the fear, the lack of confidence would come from messing up with someone who knows everything about it. I know my dad once told me that a couple time he presented on subjects where the author of the book was in the room. And so, he always talks about how you had to have it packed down. |
| Pretty confident (5) | I’m pretty confident presenting. I’ve done that before. | |
| Changing confidence (11) | Improved confidence from understanding content knowledge and doing experiment (5) | I don’t think I felt that confident, especially before we’d actually done the experiment, because I didn’t really know that much about plant biology and the different things that are, like, impacting plants. And that kind of scared me. But, as we got closer, and I like, actually met with my group mates and we went through it and figured it out, and like, read the articles, I… I was a lot more confident going into the actual presentation, I’d say. |
| Improved confidence after reviewing and compiling poster (4) | …when [instructor] first told us that we would be presenting I was like, “No way” I just was not confident at all. Um, and then I’d say the closer we got like maybe the final week before we presented, like once our poster was finalized, and I was looking over it, like I actually understood what we had done. I definitely felt a lot more confident going into that one. I guess like, as the course progressed, I felt better. | |
| Improved confidence after doing independent research poster with faculty (1) | …the first half of the semester, I was definitely like, “Oh my gosh, I don’t even know what to talk about when I’m doing this stuff, like do I just need to read it directly off the poster?” But then, after submitting my own person poster to a conference, and although I didn’t actually talk to anybody about it… made me feel more sort of prepared for what it would look like to present the plant biology poster. | |
| Decreased confidence (1) | So, I was honestly, really confident up until like, the week before. | |
| Mixed statements (4) | I was pretty confident that everything was how it was supposed to be [on my poster]. I was just not confident how I would speak those things. |
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