STEM Teaching Reform: Incremental Pathways

Journal Article | August 2021

For almost 1,000 years, lecture has been the predominant form of teaching. There has been increasing pressure to abandon lecturing and instead use more active learning strategies. An unfortunate outcome is that didactic…

Sustaining Community-School Relationships Around Shared Visions of Climate Justice and Science Teaching

Journal Article | September 2021

The REACH Program Brings Science Practices to Students: A Teacher’s Perspective

Journal Article | November 2021

Collaborative Assessments

Journal Article | August 2020

Science, Society, and Self

Journal Article | July 2022

A formal pedagogical push emerged and later blossomed in designing integrated curriculum between STEM and non-STEM areas in secondary and higher education. A growing cadre of research identifies positive learning…

Computational Thinking and Why It Matters

Journal Article | February 2023

Developing and Implementing a Campus-Wide Professional Development Program: Successes and Challenges

Journal Article | December 2020

Gateways-ND is a 5-year, National Science Foundation–funded effort directed toward three goals: maximizing the instructional effectiveness of postsecondary STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)…

Tapping Into the Power of the Crowd to Ensure Safe Drinking Water for All

Journal Article | August 2020

Constructive Error Climate: A Classroom Assessment Technique in Science Classes

Journal Article | April 2020

Although making errors in the learning process is common, it is usually perceived by students as something negative and a potential threat to self-esteem. Such perception often prevents students from considering errors…

STEM Education as a Vital Preventive Response to a Pandemic

Journal Article | February 2021

Chemical Engineer Andrew Zydney

Journal Article | April 2021

COVID-19: One Year Later

Journal Article | June 2021

Use of a Linked-Course Model to Teach Scientific Writing to First-Year Undergraduates

Journal Article | February 2021

The ability to read and compose original scientific literature is critical to educating informed citizens, yet may be severely lacking in undergraduate curricula. We developed a linked course offering in fall 2017…

A Perfect Storm

Journal Article | March 2022

This point of view article uses a social science lens in an attempt to understand the differing environments of the two institutions (private and public) where I taught chemistry for 3 decades. I hypothesize that…

An Undergraduate Independent Study Project

Journal Article | July 2023

A lateral flow assay was designed and optimized as an independent study project that aimed to develop an assay for the qualitative detection of troponin assay. Lateral flow assays (the classic example being a pregnancy…