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  • Students as Partners in Educational Transformation

    The shifting sands of higher education and a pandemic have made it difficult to find a stable pathway to…

  • Numerical Skills as a Barrier to Entry to STEM: Results from General Education Science Courses

    Much of the dialogue surrounding effective pedagogy for college-level general education science courses has been focused on how best…

  • Studying Retention and Graduation of Underrepresented CS Students at Multiple Institutions

    This talk reflects upon a multi-institutional project looking at practices to improve retention and graduation rates of Black computer…

  • Ocean Science Research Opportunities for Community College Students at WHOI

    Community colleges contain an untapped source of diverse and talented students. The students tend to be local, non-traditional, socio-economically…

  • Supporting Students’ Constructions of Logical Structures to Address Challenges in Proofs Courses

    Prior research has documented several persistent challenges students face in introductory proofs courses. These challenges include a tendency to…

  • Opening the GATE: Advancing Teaching Evaluation in Departments

    At many institutions, STEM departments do not adequately evaluate teaching (Dennin et al., 2017). As a result, they cannot…

  • Passion-Driven Statistics: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience

    Passion-Driven Statistics is a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) that has been used in statistics courses, research methods courses,…

  • PEARLS (Provide Educational Access to Research & Learning in GeoscienceS) of Wisdom

    Geoscience is one of the least diverse disciplines in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). One pathway to change…

  • Pedagogical Interventions in Undergraduate Courses – Science Communication to Nonscientific Audience

    Scientific communication to non-scientific audience has taken on an urgent renewed interest and importance, in light of the recent…