Connecting With Community

Journal Article | September 2020

Using Trade Books and Biographies to Bring the Practices of Engineering to Life

Journal Article | December 2020

Classroom Observations to Characterize Active Learning Within Introductory Undergraduate Science Courses

Journal Article | April 2020

In this article, the authors describe how classroom observations were used to characterize differences in instructional practices among undergraduate science courses. Student and faculty behaviors and dialogues were…

Student-Constructed Weather Instruments Facilitate Scientific Inquiry

Journal Article | February 2020

Students in introductory college science courses often have a simplified understanding of the scientific method. To introduce students to the complexity of the scientific process and the value of empirical observations…

Geoscience Education and Motivated Reasoning

Journal Article | July 2020

Individuals use information selectively, in ways that support group beliefs or one’s psychological needs—this is motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning is revealed in correlations between (1) opinions/…

Formative Assessment of English Language Proficiency in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | July 2020

Conversion of Traditional Face-to-Face MLS Hematology Courses Into Remote Delivery

Journal Article | May 2023

The design of a hybrid Hematology I course (prepandemic) was adopted for Hematology II and facilitated our conversion of Hematology II into a fully remote course by fall 2020, after the university went into remote…

STEM Scholars’ Sense of Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal Article | August 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate sense of community (SOC) within a STEM learning community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The STEM learning community that was the setting for this study is funded by a…

Strategies to Increase the Workforce Development of Interdisciplinary Cohorts of Traditionally Underrepresented Students in STEM

Journal Article | October 2021

This article presents results from a Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) grant from the National Science Foundation that supported students from three majors and funded the development of cocurricular activities designed to…

Using Critical Thinking to Counter Misinformation

Journal Article | March 2019

Community Lead-Ers

Journal Article | September 2020

Using Drama to Uncover and Expand Student Understandings of the Nature of Science

Journal Article | November 2020

Virtual Sungazing

Journal Article | December 2020

Joel E. Greengiant Learns About Peas

Case Study | July 2014

The Last Spruce Grove

Case Study | October 2015