About the Authors

Chris Mead

Contributed equally to this work with: Chris Mead, K. Supriya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Education Through Exploration, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

K. Supriya

Contributed equally to this work with: Chris Mead, K. Supriya

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biology Education Research Lab, Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Yi Zheng

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Ariel D. Anbar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Education Through Exploration, School of Earth and Space Exploration, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

James P. Collins

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Paul LePore

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Sara E. Brownell

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Sara.Brownell@asu.edu

Affiliation Biology Education Research Lab, Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.