Leveraging Data to Guide Change Efforts in Inclusive and Equitable Teaching: A Pilot Assessment in Academic Departments
Ruthann Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amanda Baker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Inclusive and Equitable Teaching (IE-Teaching) Assessment is an initiative designed to promote more inclusive and equitable teaching practices by using data to motivate, inform, and tailor change efforts to the ...

Assessing Quantitative Reasoning Across Ohio
Gregory Foley, Ohio University-Main Campus; Deependra Budhathoki, Defiance College
Quantitative Reasoning (QR) is gaining in popularity across the United States as a gateway postsecondary mathematics course. In particular, enrollment in QR at public institutions of higher (IHEs) in Ohio increased ...

Science Attitudes and Career Goals at an Urban Community College
Kristyn VanderWaal Mills, Saint Paul College-A Community and Technical Col
Student attitudes toward science and their identity as scientists may play a role in their success in pursuing science education and choice of careers. These elements are particularly relevant for students from ...

A Unique Approach to Diversifying the STEM Pipeline: Creating a STEM Center Despite Funding, Faculty Support and Engagement Challenges
Jessica Spott, Texas Tech University; Narges Hadi, Texas Tech University
Increasing the representation of underrepresented students in STEM is an admirable goal, but it often faces obstacles when it comes to developing a model that can effectively boost diversity among K-12 and ...

Bridging research and practice: How the EP3 Initiative supports faculty uptake of departmental change strategies
Robert Dalka, University of Maryland-College Park; Joel Corbo, University of Colorado at Boulder; Chandra Turpen, University of Maryland-College Park; David Craig, Oregon State University; Kathryn Svinarich, Kettering University
There is abundant evidence of practices that support strong undergraduate programs, such as shared leadership and using data to guide programmatic changes. Yet in many physics and other STEM departments, motivating ...

Presentations: Session F
Presentations: Session F Tuesday 9:15am - 10:00am Norway 1 Presentation Promoting Adoption of Research-Based Strategies: Understanding the impact of malleable factors on ...

Course Based Undergraduate Research Demystifies and Democratizes inquiry-based research for undergraduate STEM students
Kristen Hoffbuhr, Skagit Valley College; Gabriel Mast, Skagit Valley College; Grant Blume, University of Washington-Seattle Campus; Brian Brady, Skagit Valley College; Cindy Elliser, Skagit Valley College; Cliff Palmer, Skagit Valley College
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have been shown to improve both persistence and graduation rates for women and students of color (Alquicira et al. 2022). Although these effects are observed broadly across ...

Improving the Center's Lever: Strategic Addition of a Co-curricular Activity to Improve STEM Faculty and Student Success
Ken Griffith, Texas Tech University; Alyssa Kramer, Texas Tech University; Abby Miller, Texas Tech University; Torrey Stubblefield, Texas Tech University; Mckenna Mckay, Texas Tech University
After the 2015 annual meeting of the POD Network in Higher Education, leaders from POD and the Network of STEM Education Centers (NSEC) came together to host a workshop called "Collaborating at the ...

Student and Teacher Interaction in Traditional and Remote, Asynchronous Undergraduate Physics Laboratories
Angela M Kelly, SUNY at Stony Brook; Keith Sheppard, SUNY at Stony Brook; Drew Rosen, University of Maine
This research examines how undergraduate faculty and graduate teaching assistants implemented traditional and remote, asynchronous pedagogical practices in the physics laboratory, as well as potential influences on ...

Transforming undergraduate education by building racial equity-centered STEM courses
Veronica McGowan, University of Washington-Bothell Campus; Rachel E Scherr, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus; Carrie Tzou, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
Increasingly, the natural sciences are recognizing the need to address social theories in the study of natural systems. However, postsecondary science education has been shaped by Eurocentric ideologies that depict ...