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…

Making It Bounce

Journal Article | December 2020

Media Literacy in the Age of COVID and Climate Change

Journal Article | June 2021

Aligning Undergraduate Science Curricula With Three-Dimensional Learning

Journal Article | August 2022

Recent science reform advocates for the inclusion of engineering design to teach science and represents a shift to so-called three-dimensional (3D) learning. This shift often requires science instructors to adapt their…

Using Growth Rings on Wooden Blocks and Plywood to Enhance Students’ Spatial Reasoning Skills

Journal Article | May 2023

Spatial reasoning is one of the most challenging skills to master in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This article reports the results of a teaching intervention that involved using…

STEM Education Within the West Point Experience

Journal Article | June 2021

At conferences or meetings, West Point faculty are often asked, “What’s it like to teach at West Point?” To answer this question we present the unique model that West Point uses to bridge traditional higher education…

Creating Opportunities

Journal Article | July 2022

Remote Learning: Problem or Opportunity?

Journal Article | June 2020

Starting at the Beginning

Journal Article | April 2021

This study examines what prior knowledge and misconceptions about evolutionary theory students bring with them into an introductory biological anthropology course. One hundred and fifty-three students completed short,…

Practice Makes Better

Journal Article | January 2021

Practice effects are ubiquitous human phenomena that have been scientifically studied for over half a century. They are also among the most directly applicable psychological phenomenon, holding broad implications for…

Gender-Inclusive Biology: A framework in action

Journal Article | August 2021

It Starts at Home

Journal Article | May 2022

Sourdough Citizen Science

Journal Article | March 2020

Features of an Effective Future-Faculty Teaching-Development Program

Journal Article | April 2020

Many institutions are preparing graduate students and postdoctorals (future faculty) for effective teaching in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Interestingly, little is known…

Focusing the Lens of the Crosscutting Concepts on Secondary Science Learning

Journal Article | March 2022