Avargil, Shirly http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4515-126X
Saxena, Arunika
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Science Foundation (DRL- 0962805)
Article History
Accepted: 8 March 2023
First Online: 18 April 2023
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: Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the granting agency.
: The research has been approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB); record ID is 31688231. All parents signed a parental consent form, and all students signed a student assent form. The research’s digital documents are all password-protected. All the questionnaires remain in a secure location. The gathered and analyzed questionnaires have been stripped of all personal information, including student names.
: The authors declare no competing interests. Notes of Acknowledgment: We would like to thank Prof. Mitchell R. M. Bruce and Prof. François G. Amar from the Department of Chemistry at The University of Maine. We appreciate their support and comments. The second author would like to thank the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology for providing a graduate student scholarship. We would like to thank Dr. Zehavit Kohen for her comments on the statistical analysis