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Continued: Plans to address challenges to student success in STEM at KCC
Topic: Continued discussion of plans for a study of challenges to and strategies for student success in STEM at KCC Goal: (from previous meeting) Identify obstacles and challenges to student success in STEM at KCC, and determine to what extent evidence-based strategies are employed at KCC to address these challenges Effects of Mindset […]
Plan to study the challenges to and strategies for studnet success in STEM at KCC
At our April meeting, we discussed and formed a plan to identify obstacles and challenges to student success in STEM at KCC, and to determine to what extent evidence-based strategies are employed at KCC to address these challenges. After having read so many studies identifying such challenges and the varying success of a range of […]
Racial achievement and motivation gaps related to faculty mindset
We discussed an article summarizing a study on the impact of faculty mindset on student achievement, with special attention to racial achievement gaps (link to article below). In this recent study, 150 STEM faculty across 13 departments at a large public university were surveyed (using a validated tool) to identify their beliefs regarding the fixedness […]
