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Full-Length Free MCAT Practice Test
This full-length MCAT practice test was designed to simulate the actual test experience closely, mirroring the real exam's format, difficulty, and content. Our students see an average score increase of 12 points after using this test.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development:Student Assessment, Supporting Students:Tutoring, Academic Support

CUREnet
CUREnet CUREnet is a network of people and programs that are creating course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) in biology as a means of helping students understand core concepts in biology, develop ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Supporting Students:Academic Support, Undergraduate Research

TIDES Program at University of Texas
× TIDES Program at University of Texas The Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science (TIDES) in the College of Natural Sciences aims to catalyze, support, and showcase innovative, evidence-based ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories, Change Leaders
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Evaluating Teaching, Interdepartmental Collaboration

Understanding Interventions that Broaden Participation in Science Careers
Understanding Interventions that Broaden Participation in Science Careers Network of individuals: Our broader mission is to positively impact the outcomes of efforts aimed at broadening participation in research ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Communication
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Supporting Students, Institutional Systems:Degree Program Development, Professional Development:Advising and Mentoring

Increase the Diversity of your Graduates
Increase the Diversity of your Graduates Science Education Resource Center (SERC) website outlining approaches to increasing minority participation in STEM. Suggested Citation Science Education Resource Center. ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Equity and Inclusion
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development, Supporting Students

Teaching Eval Shake-Up
Teaching Eval Shake-Up Flaherty describes recent changes in the tenure and promotion processes at two institutions, the University of Southern California and the University of Oregon, involving discontinuing the ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Faculty Evaluation
Resource Type: Website, Report

Yale University/Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
Contact: Jennifer Frederick; Yale University, jennifer.frederick@yale.edu
The CTL provides information about sources of feedback instructors can use to inform their teaching and also provides consulting services to faculty. Many sources of feedback are available to instructors to inform their teaching, including: self-reflection, students' mid-semester feedback, peer review of teaching, and end-of-term evaluations. Instructors should feel empowered to determine what methods fit the needs and context of their situation and to try out different approaches over time.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Faculty Evaluation
Resource Type: Booklet, Website
Program Components: Professional Development:Diversity/Inclusion, Course Evaluation, Cultural Competency, Accessibility, Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching, Incentive/Reward Systems

How UT-Austin's Bold Plan for Reinvention Went Belly Up
Lindsay Ellis
This article provides a cautionary tale about large institutional efforts to redesign undergraduate education and the challenges of measuring what works. In 2016, UT Austin pledged to revamp undergraduate education, adding state-of-the-art online classes, redesigned curricula, and short courses, among others, to produce less expensive degrees, teach practical skills and expand access via technology. Dubbed "Project 2021" it also committed to measure what worked and adjust accordingly. By 2019, the project was deemed too ambitious and lacked support to continue. Several lessons about the impact of changes in undergraduate teaching are useful. For example, implementing regular quizzes in large classes narrowed grade disparities between students from different socioeconomic groups. Massive online classes modeled after late-nighttalk shows were hailed as a national model for using technology to deliver remote instruction and billed as next-generation undergraduate programs. Yet, while students rated the online courses highly, evaluations of student learning showed no advantage to the course delivering mode, and the cost for the heavily produced studio quality courses was high. Key conclusions from the project evaluation is that it was very complicated and lacked direction, got caught in bureaucratic processes, and was expensive.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Website, Report
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning

AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative
AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative The AAU STEM Initiative supports evidence-based teaching practice and influences the culture of STEM departments at AAU universities. Suggested Citation Association of ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories, Change Leaders, Assessment
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development:Cultural Competency, Professional Development, Curriculum Development, Outreach:Inter-Institutional Collaboration

Making Academic Change Happen Workshop
Making Academic Change Happen Workshop The Making Academic Change Happen (MACH) Workshop is a three-day, participant-centered workshop designed to help faculty, administrators, staff, and graduate students ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories, Change Leaders
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development:Leadership, Professional Development, Outreach:In-Service Teacher Training, Presentations/Talks, Professional Development:Preparing Future Teachers