Event Materials Archive

  • Project SEA Change: a generative approach to STEM education reform

    Need: Efforts to improve STEM education have historically been made from a deficit perspective, moving initially from concentration on…

  • Students’ Conceptual Resources for Understanding Physics

    Physics education research has a rich history of topic-specific research about student thinking. Over the last three decades, researchers…

  • Measurement of Negative Mentoring in Undergraduate Research

    Need: Undergraduate research experiences have been shown to foster undergraduates’ personal and professional growth; mentoring by more experienced scientists…

  • Measurements for Learning and Practice: The Revised Calculus Concept Inventory

    Calculus has been a gatekeeping course in many colleges and universities. Students who struggle with their first course in…

  • Metacognition and Misconceptions: Using Web-Based Writing Exercises in Gateway STEM Courses

    NEED: Writing exercises have been used to detect student misconceptions regarding course content across a variety of STEM disciplines.…

  • Mix-ED: Mixed Reality for Engineering Design Interpretation in Construction Engineering Management

    Mix-ED: Mixed Reality for Engineering Design Interpretation in Construction Engineering ManagementThe Mix-ED project vision is to use the context…

  • Mobile Hands-On Experiments and Collaborative Learning

    Experiential learning can be a very effective way of getting students to interact with the engineering concepts and see…

  • Navigating and Addressing Institutional Barriers to Transdisciplinary Learning

    Need:To date, many strategies have been tried to transform undergraduate learning to better prepare students for the future of…

  • Norms and Consequences of Giving Positive Feedback in College Math Courses

    Need: Although many students begin college with intentions to major in STEM, their experiences with instructors in introductory calculus…