Outrageous Optics

Journal Article | August 2021

Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course

Journal Article | December 2020

At our small liberal arts college, we recently introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors. This course, entitled “The Urban Ecosystem,” explores various aspects of science…

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…

Collaborative Leverages Business and Community Resources for Transformative Approach to STEM Education

Journal Article | June 2020

Turn Up the Music!

Journal Article | July 2021

Advance technology literacy and bring learners’ 21st-century skills up to code with the Hour of Code!

Journal Article | October 2019

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Prototyping Builds Resiliency

Journal Article | August 2020

Technology Meets Pedagogy: Comparing Classroom Response Systems

Journal Article | February 2019

The author of this article explores the impact of different student response systems in successive years in a general education human biology course.

STEM Teaching Support During COVID-19

Journal Article | June 2020

Undergraduate Student Conceptions of DNA and Their Understanding of Basic Science

Journal Article | April 2021

An understanding of basic science is central to student success at the university level, even for students who will never work in scientific fields. Our investigation into students’ understanding of DNA is part of a…

Issues of Question Equivalence in Online Exam Pools

Journal Article | March 2023

During the pandemic, the use of question pools for online testing was recommended to mitigate cheating, exposing multitudes of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students across the globe to this…

Making Science Personal

Journal Article | January 2021

General education college astronomy courses offer instructors both a unique audience and a unique challenge. For many students, such a course may be their first time encountering a stand-alone astronomy class, and it is…

Innovations in Undergraduate Teaching and Learning of Earth and Environmental Science, with a Focus on Climate Change

Journal Article | March 2022

In this study, we analyzed the literature on teaching or learning on a topic in Earth science, environmental science, or climate change between 1995 and 2017. We investigated the length of the intervention, intervention…

Teacher Spotlight: Wendy Frazier

Journal Article | March 2020

Climate Change Education: A Model of Justice-Oriented STEM Education

Journal Article | February 2021