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 Tea […]

At our May 18 meeting, we discussed the first 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 Tea […]

In our first meeting this semester, participants responded to the following questions. Their answers appear below. The intention was to share ideas about success strategies that have worked well in our STEM […]

At this meeting, we discussed several types of alternative assessments for fully online learning, meaning assessments other than traditional exams. Participants contributed ideas based on our experiences, and […]

For our second meeting of the fall semester, we:

Shared resources for conducting remote and/or virtual research with students
Discussed how to use these resources effectively

A summary of our discussion […]

At our first fall 2020 meeting on Sept 29, we discussed ideas and suggestions from the articles listed in the references at the end of this post, and then participants shared their own ideas for active learning […]

In our final meeting for Spring 2020 on June 2, we discussed how to create and grade effective lab reports for online labs. The following ideas were shared.

Many different formats can work for online lab […]

In our second meeting for Spring 2020 on May 12, faculty shared online activities they had used and found effective for lab. The list discussed appears below, and these (and others) were added to an online […]

In the first meeting of the Spring 2020 STEM faculty interest group, we had moved to emergency online teaching after the COVID crisis began. After 6 weeks of online teaching, we met on April 28 and discussed the […]

Goals for this semester:

Identify (and later, evaluate) resources and initiatives at KCC that support student success in STEM
Identify opportunities for research projects assessing the effectiveness of […]

At our first meeting this fall on Sept 26, we continued to work on the goals developed last semester:

Identify and evaluate resources and initiatives at KCC that support student success in STEM
Identify […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

At our third meeting on November 28, 2018, we discussed the optimal timing of the math requirement for community college students to maximize their success. We read research on this from the article posted below, […]

At our second meeting on 10/17/18, we discussed the impact of prerequisite courses on student success in subsequent courses. I’ve attached below the article we read and discussed, which summarizes research on this […]

At our first meeting on September 26, we discussed the use and efficacy of concept inventories in STEM. I have included a link to the handout from this meeting, including links to two articles on this topic. The […]