The Lives of Staph

Journal Article | November 2020

Transgender Perspectives in the Biology Classroom

Journal Article | April 2020

The Boxcar Challenge Unit

Journal Article | February 2020

Personal Characteristics Influencing College Readiness of Hispanic Students in a STEM Gateway Course, First-Semester General Chemistry

Journal Article | May 2022

This study is an exploratory comparison of 69 Hispanic students enrolled in first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) who attended either a Hispanic-Serving or emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution and were not…

Advice to Future Participants From Six Cohorts of an Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Atmospheric Science

Journal Article | January 2023

Many undergraduates use research internships to gain experience for graduate school. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs involve heavy research and lab work duties, for which students are…

Fingerprint Spoofing: Exploring Cybersecurity With Limited Technology

Journal Article | November 2022

Comparing Student Performance and Satisfaction Between Face-to-Face and Online Education of a Science Course in a Liberal Arts University

Journal Article | October 2021

This study presents a quasi-experiment to assess differences in student performance and satisfaction between two different delivery modes—online and face-to-face education. We collected data from 747 (373 face-to-face…

Using an Instructional Team During Pandemic Remote Teaching Enhanced Student Outcomes in a Large STEM Course

Journal Article | January 2022

The unplanned shift to online instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic challenged many instructors teaching large-enrollment courses to design learning environments that actively engaged all students. We looked at how…

The War Over Water Continues

Journal Article | September 2019

Debates over water allocation help students understand Earth systems.

Using Citizen Science to Engage Preservice Elementary Educators in Scientific Fieldwork

Journal Article | October 2016

Preservice elementary teachers’ lack of confidence in teaching science is an ongoing concern. Only 29% of elementary teachers in the field felt “very well prepared to teach life science,” according to the National…

Student-Centered Learning in an Earth Science, Preservice, Teacher-Education Course

Journal Article | June 2009

In an effort to get elementary teachers to teach more science in the classroom, a required preservice science education course was designed to promote the use of hands-on teaching techniques. This paper describes course…

Is It a Rock? (Version 2)

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an Earth material, rocks. The probe is designed to determine whether students can distinguish between humanmade, “rocklike” materials and…