Developing students’ scientific literacy through an e-portfolio project at a community college gateway science course

• DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2021.1877782
• Publication Date: 2021-02-24T05:56:01Z
• Authors: Daniel Gertner; Na Xu; Holly Porter-Morgan; Jacqueline Brashears
• Keywords: Gateway (web page); Scientific Literacy

Gateway science courses are an ongoing obstacle to recruitment into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields, in part due the large gains vocabulary that fundamental scientific literacy. Students also struggle achieve technological literacy necessary for a career. We implemented ePortfolio-based project 12 sections of General Biology I (n = 164) at urban community college. This was designed aid students integrating general biology around central topic – organism their choice while increasing facility using ePortfolio. assessed effectiveness set 17 survey questions, which were delivered control sections. responded positively project, effective understanding platform. However, did not help make demonstrates course-specific may be useful helping succeed gateway courses.