Community College Students Rise to the Challenge

Journal Article | July 2020

High-structure course designs have reduced achievement gaps for low-income and underrepresented minority students at research universities. But do community college students have time to do the preclass preparation…

Undergraduate Student Conceptions of DNA and Their Understanding of Basic Science

Journal Article | April 2021

An understanding of basic science is central to student success at the university level, even for students who will never work in scientific fields. Our investigation into students’ understanding of DNA is part of a…

Moving Continents

Journal Article | December 2020

Soldiers of Science

Journal Article | June 2021

Making Lab Group Work Equitable and Inclusive

Journal Article | March 2023

The collaborative nature of introductory college science labs means that labs can play a major role in boosting students’ interest in experimental science when they work together in small groups. However, collaboration…

Promoting Biodiversity Through Urban Greenspaces

Journal Article | August 2021

Factors Associated With Students Graduating With STEM Degrees at a Military Academy: Improving Success by Identifying Early Obstacles

Journal Article | August 2020

The United States is not graduating enough science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors for the increasing number of available employment opportunities and national security needs. The purpose of…

Shining a Light

Journal Article | November 2022

Let's Give Them Something to Talk About

Journal Article | August 2021

Who Gets Helped? The Opportunity Structure of the College Physics Classroom, Peer Instruction, and Perceptions of Help Seeking

Journal Article | October 2019

In this article, the authors explore the opportunity structure in a physics course to identify differences in perception of classroom community among students.

Wildfire!

Journal Article | November 2022

(W)holistic Science Pedagogy

Journal Article | August 2021

A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Perspectives Toward Learning Assistant–Faculty Relationships

Journal Article | January 2023

Learning Assistant (LA) programs oversee and support undergraduate instructors and faculty members who work together to facilitate student learning in a variety of classroom settings. The success of an LA program is…

NGSS Science and Language Shifts in a Diverse Fourth-Grade Classroom

Journal Article | June 2021

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) offer rich opportunities for both science and language learning. This article presents science and language instructional shifts, grounded in the NGSS and contemporary…

Qualitative Analysis of Ray Optics in a College Physics Laboratory: A 5E Lesson

Journal Article | July 2020

This paper describes an alternative approach to teaching and learning practices in an undergraduate physics laboratory. The instructor plans and implements the 5E instructional model into the laboratory instruction.…