Overview
Focus: Use experiments to understand disparities and foster equity in the classroom and across multiple disciplines and universities, with an emphasis on replication and context.
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Key Projects
Test Anxiety Project
PAUSED DUE TO COVID: This project will test the hypothesis that test anxiety explains part of the performance gap between under-represented students in introductory STEM courses and their well-represented counterparts…
Office Hours Project
This project explores the wide range of practices associated with office hours across the SEISMIC institutions, to inform recommendations to campuses on best practices for these sessions…
Backchannel Project
This team will explore to what degree the establishment of a backchannel in foundational STEM courses… increases student participation in class inquiry.
Access to Practice Project
Faculty in this project are designing peer-reviewed, low-stakes writing assignments for students to improve their learning in STEM introductory courses…
Belonging Project
This project will deliver brief, in-class, small group interventions discussing adversity that supports students’ sense of belonging…
CLUE: Contextual Linkaging Project
This project will design, build and test a new technology that promotes elaboration and reflection for learners while providing feedback to instructors.
Resources
Papers
Cooper, K. M., Gin, L. E., Barnes, M. E., & Brownell, S. E. (2020). An exploratory study of students with depression in undergraduate research experiences. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 19(2), ar19. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-11-0217
Cooper, K. M., Gin, L. E., & Brownell, S. E. (2020). Depression as a concealable stigmatized identity: what influences whether students conceal or reveal their depression in undergraduate research experiences?. International Journal of STEM Education, 7(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-020-00216-5