Reflections on Multimodal Delivery of a Laboratory Course for Nonscience Majors and Opportunities for Improved Student Engagement

Journal Article | August 2022

A rudimentary level of scientific literacy is necessary in the general public. At the undergraduate level, this literacy can be achieved through general education courses offered in areas of natural sciences. Over the…

Hair-Raising Fun!

Journal Article | September 2022

Seeing The Light

Journal Article | January 2023

Leading the Implementation of High Quality Instructional Materials to Enact Standards

Professional Learning Unit | January 2024

High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) designed for next generation science can make a difference in the quality of equitable science teaching and learning throughout the educational system and for all learners (i.…

Recent Developments in Classroom Observation Protocols for Undergraduate STEM

Journal Article | August 2022

Over the past decade, researchers have developed several teaching observation protocols for use in higher education, such as the Teaching Dimensions Observation Protocol (TDOP), Classroom Observation Protocol for…

Human Impacts on Our Climate Lesson Plan 1: Weather Versus Climate and Global Warming Trends

Reports Article | July 2020

Some of You Are Smiling Now

Journal Article | April 2022

Using Past Science Events

Journal Article | August 2021

Teaching Comprehension in the Digital Age

Journal Article | April 2021

STEM Faculty Institute

Journal Article | January 2022

As change agents at our university, we sought to facilitate a transition within our STEM college toward more extensive use of evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs) that promote student-centered learning. We…

Models for Developing Explanations of Earth’s Dynamic Plate System

Journal Article | March 2022

Using a Game to Teach Invasive Species Spread and Management

Journal Article | January 2023

Invasive species are a major ecological and economic problem at the global scale, and education plays a major role in raising awareness and combating these species’ future spread. There are complex management and…

Cancer and Formaldehyde

Journal Article | April 2023

Cornhole Predicts the Perfect Pitch

Journal Article | April 2021

Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning

Journal Article | December 2020

This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…