Cookie Jar Alarms

Journal Article | September 2019

This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering.

Facilitating Conceptual Change by Engaging Students’ Preconceptions During College Science Classroom Instruction

Journal Article | January 2021

Whether to engage student preconceptions to facilitate conceptual change is an area of debate among conceptual change theorists. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of a preconceptions-based instructional sequence about…

Pandemic-Inspired Insights

Journal Article | August 2021

College instructors faced a rapid transition to remote instruction in spring 2020, and with it a host of new teaching challenges. This qualitative study investigates what 26 college biology instructors learned about…

Learning Business Economics and Fermentation by Developing a Method for Producing Yogurt

Journal Article | August 2020

Geoscience Education and Motivated Reasoning

Journal Article | July 2020

Individuals use information selectively, in ways that support group beliefs or one’s psychological needs—this is motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning is revealed in correlations between (1) opinions/…

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Reports Article | April 2024

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Reports Article | August 2024

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Reports Article | April 2022

Building Engagement in STEM Through Career Courses at Two-Year Institutions

Journal Article | October 2019

This month's Two-Year Community column describes how Geo-Launchpad, a program funded by the NSF, exposes students to internships and research opportunities that promote postsecondary education or workforce employment in…

Immerse Elementary Students in Light Explorations

Journal Article | October 2021

Planning Virtual Science Fairs

Journal Article | January 2022

The Never-Ending Contamination

Case Study | August 2016

The Art of a Deal

Case Study | November 2006

Outcomes for Peer-Based Mentors in a University-Wide STEM Persistence Program: A Three-Year Analysis

Journal Article | April 2020

While the majority of STEM persistence has focused on outcomes for first-year students, there has been little investigation into the outcomes for peer mentors. Of the studies conducted, results are promising. Benefits…

Who Gets Helped?

Journal Article | December 2020

Although peer interaction in the college classroom may benefit some students by developing peer networks for future collaborations, prior research has suggested that these relationships most often benefit students from…