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The Double Bind in Physics Education: Intersectionality, Equity, and Belonging for Women of Color
The Double Bind in Physics Education: Intersectionality, Equity, and Belonging for Women of Color
An incisive study of the mechanisms reinforcing the underrepresentation of women of color in STEM fields and a call for systemic change to address the imbalance.
How Activity Frames Shape Situated Identity Negotiation: Theoretical and Practical Insights from an Informal Engineering Education Program
How Activity Frames Shape Situated Identity Negotiation: Theoretical and Practical Insights from an Informal Engineering Education Program
This paper references various models and research to cover how adolescent youth negotiate and discuss their STEM identity.
Exploring the Relationship between Quantitative Reasoning Skills and News Habits
Exploring the Relationship between Quantitative Reasoning Skills and News Habits
Because people are constantly confronted with numbers and mathematical concepts in the news, the authors of this paper embarked on a project to create journalism that supports number skills in adults who consume the news. This paper focuses on the relationship between adults’ news habits and their quantitative reasoning skills.
Multimodal Data Fusion to Track Students’ Distress during Educational Gameplay
Multimodal Data Fusion to Track Students’ Distress during Educational Gameplay
This study used multimodal data fusion and machine learning to predict middle school students' distress during gameplay.
The impact of a multimodal professional network on developing social capital and research capacity of faculty at historically black colleges and universities
The impact of a multimodal professional network on developing social capital and research capacity of faculty at historically black colleges and universities
This qualitative case study examined how a multimodal professional network environment (STEM for all Video Showcase) affected five STEM educational researchers’ capacity to engage in grant funded research at U.S. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Supporting teachers’ engagement with student thinking in teacher-captured video-based professional development environments: factors and implications
Supporting teachers’ engagement with student thinking in teacher-captured video-based professional development environments: factors and implications
This article covers a study that investigated teachers’ engagement with student thinking during video clubs, which were part of a professional development model in which teachers captured and analysed their classroom videos and identified clips and questions to discuss in video clubs.
Supporting Postsecondary Educators to Develop Assessments for Student Learning Based on Backward Design
Supporting Postsecondary Educators to Develop Assessments for Student Learning Based on Backward Design
This article looks at how two postsecondary educators changed their courses after attending an assessment workshop that emphasized the use of "backward design" for course planning and alignment. It also discusses next research steps needed to support educators in designing fair undergraduate assessments and courses.