Help Professors Find Time to Think
Published in The Chronicle of Higher Education Providing more faculty development opportunities for faculty members to think, talk, and write could help to improve faculty productivity and career burnout.
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Teach Students Academic Writing or Endanger Degree Completion: Study
/0 Comments/in Digital Article Archive /by maojacanPublished in Times Higher Education Lack of self-efficacy plays a significant role in writing anxiety amongst graduate students, and this writing anxiety can often prevent students from completing their graduate degree.
Review Article – Learning Strategies: A Synthesis and Conceptual Model
/0 Comments/in Digital Article Archive /by maojacanPublished in Nature Partner Journals – Science of Learning Abstract: The purpose of this article is to explore a model of learning that proposes that various learning strategies are powerful […]
UCLA Team Attends Conference on Biology Education Research
/0 Comments/in Faculty News /by maojacan(Back, Left to Right: Elizabeth Roth-Johnson, Jordan Moberg Parker, Marc Levis-Fitzgerald, Christopher Lee; Front, Left to Right: Shanna Shaked (and Quin), Jessica Gregg, Erin Sanders, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Gaston Pfluegl, […]
Research Article – Logged In and Zoned Out: How Laptop Internet Use Relates to Classroom Learning
/0 Comments/in Digital Article Archive /by maojacanPublished in the Association for Psychological Science Abstract: Laptop computers are widely prevalent in university classrooms. Although laptops are a valuable tool, they offer access to a distracting temptation: the Internet. […]
A Resource of Resources for STEM Educators
/0 Comments/in Digital Article Archive /by maojacanThis new book summarizes evidence-based teaching practices for STEM classrooms that improve student learning across diverse populations. (CBE- Life Sciences Education)
A Guide for Graduate Students Interested in Postdoctoral Positions in Biology Education Research
/0 Comments/in Digital Article Archive /by maojacanIn this essay, authors use a backward-design approach to inform life science graduate students of postdoctoral opportunities in BER. READ MORE
Gender Bias in Academe: An Annotated Bibliography
/0 Comments/in Digital Article Archive /by maojacanAcademic research plays an important role in uncovering bias and helping to shape a more equal society. But academia also struggles to adequately confront persistent and entrenched gender bias in […]
How to Integrate Growth Mindset Messages into Every Part of Math Class
/0 Comments/in Digital Article Archive /by maojacanCatherine Good has experienced stereotype threat herself, although she didn’t know it at the time. She started her academic career in pure math, expecting to get a Ph.D. But somewhere […]
Reaching “New Majority” Students
/0 Comments/in Digital Article Archive /by maojacanCollege students today are increasingly different from those of previous generations. They are less likely to be white and more likely to be the first in their families to go […]
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