Transforming STEM education using a multipronged systems approach and High Impact Practices (HIPs)
Allison D'Costa, Georgia Gwinnett College; Cindy Achat-Mendes, Georgia Gwinnett College; Judy Awong-Taylor, Georgia Gwinnett College; Tirza Leader, Georgia Gwinnett College; Clay Runck, Georgia Gwinnett College; Chantelle Anfuso, Georgia Gwinnett College; David Pursell, Georgia Gwinnett College; Thomas Mundie, Georgia Gwinnett College
Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) is an open access institution that attracts a highly diverse population of students, including many from groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM education. To address the needs ...

An evaluation of the differential effects of the prerequisite pathways on student performance in an introductory biology course
Amy Kulesza, Ohio State University-Main Campus; Jerome D'Agostino, Ohio State University-Main Campus; Judith Ridgway, Ohio State University-Main Campus
For almost a century, researchers and educators have been asking the question, does a prerequisite science course achieve its goal of preparing students for a subsequent course? Although early studies have shown ...

Navigating the bridge between theory and action: Validating the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE) Theory of Change
Heather Seitz, Johnson County Community College; Erika Offerdahl, Washington State University- Pullman; Carol Colbeck, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE), a non-profit organization, provides life sciences departments at all types of US higher education institutions with training and resources to ...

The Sky is the Limit: A Learning Community for Undeclared Students--A Sustainable Investment in Student Success and Retention
Stacey Barnes, Iowa State University; Jenifer N. Saldanha, Michigan State University; MaKayla B. Schroeder, Minnesota State University Moorhead; Andrew J. Sage, Lawrence University; Jo Anne Powell-Coffman, Iowa State University; Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State University; Clark Coffman, Iowa State University
Student learning communities have proven to be a consistently powerful strategy for promoting student success. At Iowa State University, approximately 78% of freshmen belong to learning communities, and this ...

Using Data-Driven Faculty Professional Development To Promote Change In Undergraduate Education
Gili Marbach-Ad, University of Maryland-College Park; Carly Hunt, University of Maryland-College Park; Patrick Sheehan, University of Maryland-College Park; Kaci Thompson, University of Maryland-College Park
Employers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields report that recent graduates are deficient in important workplace skills (e.g., collaboration, professional writing). This has motivated ...

Fostering interdisciplinary, cross-institutional collaboration to provide undergraduate STEM students with authentic learning experiences
Kelly McDonald, California State University-Sacramento; Thomas E. Landerholm, California State University-Sacramento
The Sustainable Interdisciplinary Research to Inspire Undergraduate Success (SIRIUS) Project is broadening participation and institutional capacity for STEM learning at Sacramento State by integrating research ...

Partnering with Peer Leaders to create inclusive academic support environments
Jennifer Lundmark, California State University-Sacramento; Enid Gonzalez-Orta, California State University-Sacramento; Kelly McDonald, California State University-Sacramento
The Science and Math Success Center at Sacramento State houses a number of peer support p performance and retention. The Success Center's three main programs, Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL), Science Educational ...

Student-driven approaches to adding discussions of race and racism to STEM courses
Monica Linden, Brown University; Bjorn Sandstede, Brown University
This presentation focuses on two new courses on race and gender in STEM at Brown University that were initiated by students. The first course on race and gender in the scientific community was run for a semester as ...

Guided by Evidence: Changing the Disciplinary Culture of Teaching and Learning
Kaci Thompson, University of Maryland-College Park; Michelle Bertke, University of Maryland-College Park; Todd Cooke, University of Maryland-College Park; Joelle Presson, University of Maryland-College Park; Francisca Saavedra, University of Maryland-College Park; Patrick Sheehan, University of Maryland-College Park; Gili Marbach-Ad, University of Maryland-College Park
Students learn better when they are actively engaged in constructing knowledge, but teaching approaches that foster student engagement are far from widespread in undergraduate STEM classrooms. To remedy this, the ...

Thriving and surviving as non-traditional students: A Qualitative Study
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Background: Historically, the National Center for Education Statistics defined "nontraditional students" as older students who do not receive bachelor's degrees prior to age 25 because that age gap ...

Leveraging Course-Based Communities of Transformation to Effect Change in STEM Education
Jill Nelson, George Mason University; Stephanie Foster, George Mason University; Carrie Klein, George Mason University; Jaime Lester, George Mason University; Laura Poms, George Mason University; Jessica Rosenberg, George Mason University; Robert Sachs, George Mason University
Studies across the STEM disciplines have shown that student engagement in active learning improves student attitudes toward STEM, retention in STEM majors, and understanding of key concepts, with greater impact on ...

Enrichment of a high-impact practice to promote STEM learning and build transferable skills in undergraduate students: Peer Supplemental Instruction at Georgia Gwinnett College
Cindy Achat-Mendes, Georgia Gwinnett College; Chantelle Anfuso, Georgia Gwinnett College; Judy Awong-Taylor, Georgia Gwinnett College; Benjamin Shepler, Georgia Gwinnett College; Sonal Dekhane, Georgia Gwinnett College; Katherine Pinzon, Georgia Gwinnett College; Jennifer Hurst- Kennedy, Georgia Gwinnett College; Cynthia Johnson, Georgia Gwinnett College; Jamye Curry, Georgia Gwinnett College; Elizabeth Sudduth, Georgia Gwinnett College; Rashad Simmons, Georgia Gwinnett College
Georgia Gwinnett College, a 4-year USG institution, has rapidly grown since 2006 to accommodate over 12,000 students. Our student population is ethnically diverse with 32% African American, 31% Caucasian, 21% ...

Promoting and Sustaining Inclusivity Through (Minor) Changes In Undergraduate Science Assessment
Tommy Mayberry, University of Guelph; Sarah Ruffell, University of Pittsburgh-Bradford
Incorporating inclusivity within post-secondary classrooms is an institutional requirement of higher education. This project raises student awareness of the need for inclusivity in the classroom as well as in their ...

Development of an integrative, student-centered program to improve student progression and retention.
Jennifer Louten, Kennesaw State University
Student retention and progression are critical issues for academic institutions. Student attrition directly translates into a loss of tuition income, fees, and alumni contributions (Stillman 2009). Moreover, it ...

The Sky is the Limit: A Learning Community for Undeclared Students--A Sustainable Investment in Student Success and Retention
Stacey Barnes, Iowa State University; Jenifer N. Saldanha, Michigan State University; MaKayla B. Schroeder, Minnesota State University Moorhead; Andrew J. Sage, Lawrence University; Jo Anne Powell-Coffman, Iowa State University; Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State University; Clark Coffman, Iowa State University
Student learning communities have proven to be a consistently powerful strategy for promoting student success. At Iowa State University, approximately 78% of freshmen belong to learning communities, and this ...

Open Educational Resources: How to rethink the textbook from multiple perspectives
James morris, Purdue University-Main Campus
This poster will outline the value of Open Educational Resources (OER), while focusing on the strategies available for implementation in Higher Education. Strategies will emphasize approaches to take from an ...

Reforming core education in the Clark Honors College: Scaffolding liberal arts understanding in freshman and sophomore honors students
Samantha Hopkins, University of Oregon; Rebecca Lindner, University of Oregon; David Frank, University of Oregon; Daphne Gallagher, University of Oregon; Melissa Graboyes, University of Oregon; Gabriel Paquette, University of Oregon; Carol Paty, University of Oregon
The Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon teaches a liberal arts curriculum within the broader research university. During our external review, we realized that our core education curriculum needed ...

Transforming the Educational Experience with High Impact Practices
Jaclyn Rivard, University of Southern Mississippi; sarah cox, Western Michigan University;
High Impact Practices (HIPs) are widely tested and have demonstrated impact for students from a wide range of backgrounds (Kuh, 2008), including as an effective way to increase student retention among ...

Transforming STEM gateway courses: or How we learned to stop worrying about just one approach and love the different pathways
Shanna Shaked, University of California-Los Angeles
One of the main goals of UCLA's Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences is to broaden student success in STEM. Working with institutional research folks, we identified the persistence ...

Transforming STEM Education through Scaffolded Curricula
Mitchell Malachowski, University of San Diego; Jeffrey Osborn, The College of New Jersey
The involvement of undergraduate students in collaborative research with faculty is a proven and powerful pedagogy in view of the many educational benefits gained by students related to their cognitive, ...

A Framework for Integrated Competency-Based Education
Lisa Bosman, Purdue University-Main Campus; Prof. Abrar Hammoud, Purdue University-Main Campus
Over the past several years, competency-based education has been championed and implemented in vocational education, which prepares individuals for work in a variety of fields such as specialized trades, crafts, ...

The Biology Teaching Assistant Project: Theory of Change for a Network
Elisabeth Schussler, The University of Tennessee; Grant Gardner, Middle Tennessee State University; Gili Marbach-Ad, University of Maryland-College Park; Kristen Miller, University of Georgia; Judith Ridgway, Ohio State University-Main Campus
The Biology Teaching Assistant Project (BioTAP) is an NSF-funded research coordination network with a goal to support evidence-based institutional change in biology graduate teaching assistant (GTA) teaching ...

On the RISE: Institutional transformation by harnessing synergies
Gita Bangera, Bellevue Community College
Transforming the culture of the third largest institution of higher education in the State of Washington is no small task; especially when that goal is to bring transformative learning including High Impact ...

Internships Across Disciplines
Jennifer Menon Parker, Johnson County Community College
The original vision of this project was to research how to help a dysfunctional biotechnology internship. In trying to discover a better methodology for one program, a conversation evolved regarding the need to ...