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Background Context Intro to majors biology, cell and molecular 500 students a year I teach one semester in fall Pre-professional, secondary ed Challenge • • STEM retention Students do not see why biology class relates to their lives –> no motivation until too late to recover Research Question Does providing popular media of biological concepts improve student outcomes in introductory majors biology? Outcomes • • • • • Retention Content knowledge Grades Attitudes Interest Why is it Interesting? (to anyone other than me) STEM Retention Method anecdotally works, but little hard research in biology Contemporary format/media to engage students where science meets their lives (me meeting them where they are, not the other way around) Eating, Cooking (Alton Brown), CSI mystery, Science career, Human Interest/Justice, Agriculture/Plant, Animal Research Design 6 units of material Unit 2 - Introduce pop. media to whole class (no assn.) Units 3, 4 - Random ½ gets intervention, other ½ normal, switch Quantitative • • Pre, Post, Embed MC (factual knowledge, comprehension, concept familiarity) Grades, decreased dropping of class Qualitative • • Interview random 7 (?) of each half 1 page, open-ended, self-reporting paper