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Correction to: Is the undergraduate microbiology curriculum preparing students for careers in their field?: an assessment of biology majors’ conceptions of growth and control of microorganisms

International Journal of STEM Education volume 5, Article number: 49 (2018) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 19 October 2018

Correction to: International Journal of STEM Education (2018) 5:42 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-018-0138-z

Following publication of the original article (Sawant et al., 2018), a typesetting mistake was reported. The explanation of part labels d and e have been omitted from the caption of Fig. 1. Figure 1 and its complete caption are given in this Correction article. The original article has been updated.

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Percentage of student responses in each category for the three questions identified by their keywords: a–c Subparts of the “easy” question, d “moderate” question, e “difficult” question. The x-axis represents categories of student responses. C Correct; PC Partially Correct; IC Incorrect; IC-RC Incorrect method, correct reason; IC-MC Incorrect reason, correct method; DrCP Doctor followed the correct procedure; SI Soap is an irritant; INC Incomplete; U Unrelated; NA Not Attempted

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  • Sawant, A. P., et al. (2018). Is the undergraduate microbiology curriculum preparing students for careers in their field?: an assessment of biology majors’ conceptions of growth and control of microorganisms. International Journal of STEM Education, 5, 42 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-018-0138-z.

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  1. Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai, 400088, India

    Aakanksha Purushottam Sawant, Swapnaja Arvind Patil, Jyotsna Vijapurkar, Needa Nasir Bagban & Deepti Bhushan Gupta

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Sawant, A.P., Patil, S.A., Vijapurkar, J. et al. Correction to: Is the undergraduate microbiology curriculum preparing students for careers in their field?: an assessment of biology majors’ conceptions of growth and control of microorganisms. IJ STEM Ed 5, 49 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-018-0145-0

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