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Deep teaching in a college STEM classroom: Part 2

At our May 25 meeting, we discussed the second half of the article, “Deep teaching in a college STEM classroom”, by Bryan M. Dewsbury, in Cultural Studies of Science Education (2020) 15: 169-191 (Dewsbury Deep Teaching).  Consider the following questions:   In what way is learning is a social behavior, as proposed in the article? […]

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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 […]

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Readings for Spring 2016

1st Session Freeman, Scott, et al. “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.23 (2014): 8410-8415. (Link) Theobald, Roddy, and Scott Freeman. “Is it the intervention or the students? Using linear regression to control for student characteristics in undergraduate STEM education research.” CBE-Life Sciences Education […]

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