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Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Programs to Support STEM Teaching and Learnin
Discipline-based education research (DBER) is aimed at providing quantitative and qualitative information on how students learn discipline specific concepts in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines. The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), on the other hand, tends to involve applying findings from DBER, education research, and cognitive science into practices and studying classroom-level activities, assessment, and issues related to inclusion, access, and equity. My work spans both DBER and SoTL areas. In this talk, I will report on two NSF-funded programs that support STEM teaching and learning: (1) the Preparation in STEM Leadership program for academic peer leaders (e.g., tutors, learning assistants, supplemental instructors, and teaching interns) and the Teaching Excellence Network (TEN) for STEM faculty. In addition to describing the design and implementation of the programs, I review findings from the assessment of peer leaders and evaluation of the TEN professional development program. I will discuss chemistry-specific projects focusing on: assessing student outcomes from a thin-layer chromatography digital badge in an organic chemistry laboratory course, leveraging learning assistants (LAs) during the emergency pivot to remote instruction at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and supporting the ongoing transformation of an extended general chemistry course.
Hosted by Professor Ralf Warmuth
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