This essay explores how “student success” is defined in the education literature broadly, using specific examples from CBE-Life Sciences Education from 2015 to 2020. This essay posits that success is most often implicitly defined by researchers in terms of quantitative outcomes. Recommendations for centering student voice within policy, practice, and research are provided.

Student perceptions of the supportiveness of their instructors identified five characteristics (relational, instrumental, pedagogical, personality, uncertain) and were used to compare higher and lower support-rated instructors. Higher-support instructors had more positive relational characteristics and fewer negative pedagogical characteristics.

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This article discusses experimental procedure controls that can assist in producing more reliable listening task experiments for investigators. Issues addressed relate to using appropriate equipment, tape-processing procedures, and listening sessions controls.

We employed a national survey of life science graduate students ( N = 534) to describe student resource use outcomes and how these outcomes may be related to student demographic characteristics. ANOVA modeling indicated that student characteristics impacted resource use outcomes, with the greatest differentials between white and nonwhite students.

Output measurements of three bone vibrators were taken with three different units of the Beltone artificial mastoid to test for differences among units of the artificial mastoid. The effects of differences in mounting fixtures were also investigated. The results indicated that units of the Beltone artificial mastoid do not differ significantly and that the differences between mounting fixtures have an insignificant effect on output measurements.

This study explores how 10 life science graduate students define success and how they describe their experiences related to success. Results indicate that students have multiple, diverse components within their definitions of success. Connections between students’ definitions and their sense of belonging, well-being, and persistence are discussed.