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170500 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.170500 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2022-12 Winton, Makena Collins , James Nadile, Erika Barrett, The Honors College School of Life Sciences School of Molecular Sciences Text Voluntary participation is a common teaching practice used to engage students and is often used in undergraduate STEM classrooms. The body of literature is growing regarding participation, specifically how it can be used and what it can include (e.g., letting students ask questions and/or answer questions during class). Since the body of literature is growing, there is also increasing potential for there to be variation in how participation is defined or interpreted by researchers, educators, etc. To my knowledge, there is no study that has explored the extent to which there is variation in 1) the term voluntary participation across STEM peer-reviewed articles, 2) the definition of the terms used by investigators in articles regarding voluntary participation, and 3) the examples used by investigators regarding voluntary participation. The data set in this study consists of a multi-step literature review and nine peer-reviewed research articles regarding voluntary participation in science undergraduate courses from 2010 to 2022. The analysis revealed that: 1) 78% of articles use the term and of those, 44% of articles clearly define the term in the context of the research; 2) 22% do not use the term and instead use an umbrella term (e.g., active learning). This study provides insight into how voluntary participation is used across different contexts, and how it can be conceptualized in a variety of spaces, which can allow for instructors and educators to make informed decisions before using it as a teaching practice. voluntary participation Participation STEM education research Voluntary participation: What is it? An exploration of variation in use of the term across STEM disciplines