Interestingly, their belief that they are good at science and can do science was a distant third.
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Category: Research Summaries
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.
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Negative Experiences in Undergraduate Mentoring and How to Fix Them.
Today’s piece explores common examples of “bad mentoring” according to undergrad researchers and how to fix them.
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Math Anxiety and Math Avoidance
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.
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Yes Virginia, there is a way to reduce gender bias on your student evaluations of teaching
Adding a statement addressing implicit bias seems to reduce the gender gap.
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Meeting Bloom’s 2 sigma challenge with research-validated strategies
A combination of research-validated teaching methods can produce learning outcomes at a higher than 2 sigma level compared to traditional lecture.
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Want to know if your students are taking conceptual inventories seriously? There’s a test for that.
Wondering how many of your students are giving an honest effort on conceptual inventories? Today’s paper can help.
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Students Like Active Learning Less-But Learn More
Even though students learn more in active learning environments, students still feel they learn more in traditional lecture settings.
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Move over misconceptions and make way for resources: a wave motion example
Resources framework, an assest-based model for education research, can bring to light student ideas that are hidden to traditional methods used for analysing student responses.
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Supporting all students through Universal Design for Learning
The Universal Design for Learning are a set of guidelines for designing materials for diverse needs, abilities, and interests.
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