Students Taught by a First-Time Instructor Using Active-Learning Teaching Strategies Outperform Students Taught by a Highly-Regarded Traditional Instructor

Journal Article | February 2021

In this paper we put forth a model for physics course reform that uniquely uses proven, research-based active-learning strategies to help students improve their physics knowledge and problem-solving skills. In this…

Gender Inequities Throughout STEM

Journal Article | January 2022

Efforts to promote equity and inclusion using evidence-based approaches are vital to correcting long-standing societal inequities that have disadvantaged women and discouraged them from pursuing studies, including in…

Service-Learning Through Citizen Science in a COVID-Adapted Classroom

Journal Article | November 2022

Classrooms were turned upside down amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, which began approximately halfway through the spring 2020 semester. A service-learning project was implemented in my section of a general biology…

Surface Tension and Surfactants

Journal Article | January 2019

Investigating the Resurrection Plant

Journal Article | March 2019

Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions.

A balloon that does not burn

Journal Article | September 2019

Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions

Exploring Earth Geoscience Processes With a Flight Over Mars

Journal Article | August 2020

Integrating the Five Practices and Model-Based Inquiry to Facilitate Meaningful Science Discourse

Journal Article | September 2020

After-School STEAM Club Connects Botany, Art, and Gaming

Journal Article | April 2020

The Perfect Match

Journal Article | March 2019

A lesson that focuses on the intricate co-evolution of flowers with their pollinators is one way to help students learn the delicate balance in nature and help ensure that our actions do not upset this balance. In this…

Revisiting Coronavirus Laboratory Activity Protocols

Blog Post | January 2022

Creating a Culture of Science Safety: 7 Teacher Tips for This Fall (and Beyond)

Blog Post | October 2021

Impact of a Co-Taught Physics Course on Preservice Science Teachers’ Views of Teaching and Learning of Physics

Journal Article | July 2022

This article focuses on the impact of a physics class on secondary science teacher candidates’ views of teaching and learning physics. The course was developed and taught by faculty from the Department of Astronomy and…

Science Assessments as a Learning Opportunity

Journal Article | March 2023

Feedback best practices support timely, high-quality feedback with application opportunity. Multiple attempts on assessments support learning gains. A learning management system can be used to automatically provide…