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Effect of Exam Wrappers on Student Achievement in Multiple, Large STEM Courses
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Metacognition, the ability to think about and regulate one’s thinking, is an important factor in effective student learning. One intervention to promote student metacognition is the exam wrapper—a reflection students…
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Piloting Virtual Field Trips During a Pandemic
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The Downstream Collaborative Project
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This article describes a website called The Tachyon Nexus (no relation to Tachyon Nexus Inc.), which includes reliable information about the controversial subjects of time travel and faster-than-light particles known…
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Conducting Science Labs in a Virtual World
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This study is an exploratory comparison of 69 Hispanic students enrolled in first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) who attended either a Hispanic-Serving or emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution and were not…
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Arguing About a Chemical Change
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Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction
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Using Climate Models to Learn About Global Climate Change
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Synthesizing Geologic Data Into An Argument for Plate Tectonic Theory
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Crossing Linguistic and Cultural Borders
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A Novel Rubric Format for Providing Feedback on Process Skills to STEM Undergraduate Students
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To improve student process-skill development, a novel type of rubric was developed that goes beyond a typical analytic rubric by providing detailed feedback to students. Process skills are transferable skills such as…
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Introducing Engineering as an Altruistic STEM Career
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Crosscutting Test Prep Strategies
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Strategies for increasing student engagement