“…Simultaneously, the research on the seminars has been extending beyond their effects on performance and retention to include a wide range of academic skills and competencies critical for students' academic, professional, and personal development. The most prominent examples in this domain include the course potency to facilitate contextualized and applied learning (Swanson et al, 2017), improve metacognition and self-regulation (Hoops & Artrip, 2016;Steiner et al, 2019), promote writing and research skills (Birol et al, 2013;Stebleton & Jehangir, 2016), and cultivate information literacy (Murray & Lachowsky, 2016).…”