STEM gender stereotypes: from early childhood through adolescence

Older children are more likely to report that both boys & girls usually, should be, and can be good at STEM.

What type of instruction do student expect in their intro STEM courses?

If you guessed lecture, you would be correct. However, students also expect some non-lecturing.

Today’s piece explores common examples of “bad mentoring” according to undergrad researchers and how to fix them.

While math anxiety and math avoidance are assumed to be linked, today’s study is one of the first to find evidence of such link.

Adding a statement addressing implicit bias seems to reduce the gender gap.

Wondering how many of your students are giving an honest effort on conceptual inventories? Today’s paper can help.

The Universal Design for Learning are a set of guidelines for designing materials for diverse needs, abilities, and interests.

Prior physics preparation seems to be the biggest contributor to the gender gap but a lot is still unknown.

AP courses are said to be equivalent to university courses but AP exam scores may not be as useful as we think

Prior studies have found gender and racial performance gaps in physics. However, might those gaps be the result of gaps in preparation?