CUNY Academic Commons | Kristin Polizzotto | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/kpolizzotto/activity/ Activity feed for Kristin Polizzotto. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 f8718701392eda36482842dcbbbb995e Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=248 Mon, 14 Jun 2021 20:53:42 -0400 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 […]

]]> b43f3c7bb3d02571ab855a7bff38ca03 Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=236 Mon, 14 Jun 2021 20:52:07 -0400 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 […]

]]> 4a19a618272f5c2f100a33d243e6c2a3 Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=231 Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:59:56 -0400 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 […]

]]> b64173a4f45f5f641e85bb342363f427 Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=228 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:59:55 -0500 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 […]

]]> 34dadd46c12728c636a0007e1ed4ee4f Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=225 Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:19:55 -0500 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 […]

]]> ad42e4b6ca6baddac434a4bb4874f0cd Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=221 Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:37:30 -0400 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 […]

]]> 33bfa2da3822d561b06cfe31555c6842 Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=218 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 20:16:39 -0400 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 […]

]]> f1b5bdc645880c1766a1fc9d1f696894 Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=216 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 19:58:12 -0400 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 […]

]]> 78824948c877ae5fa06b4575cec2910d Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=210 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 19:46:56 -0400 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 […]

]]> 15d17d7493a866e9caafb8d38be9687f Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=206 Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:53:44 -0400 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 […]

]]> 37c99f2724b33cfab60c5b1e5e5904e8 Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=203 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:05:01 -0400 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 […]

]]> cec71d6b765cee86ca590449b1a2371d Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=201 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:46:10 -0400 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 […]

]]> fdb87048621e1a2f87520e04df418090 Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=193 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:50:14 -0400 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 […]

]]> 18dff1893ae6ec2ad76b623c5ee1531d Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=184 Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:03:33 -0400 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 […]

]]> 5a4354ead4e4b3e6dd02eb422debdb88 Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=174 Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:36:06 -0500 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, […]

]]> 5b326b0ddd95028b85ce6d74caff3890 Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=171 Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:25:31 -0500 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 […]

]]> 304514d0ceeeef865c37842f4a140178 Kristin Polizzotto wrote a new post on the site STEM Education: Strategies for Success https://kctlstem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=167 Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:17:20 -0500 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 […]

]]> 7641642955873a2b8f5d8d44547dfa67 Kristin Polizzotto became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/546842/ Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:23:09 -0500