March 2017 – Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences

Can we anticipate graduate student success if we can’t assess it?

March 20, 2017/0 Comments/in Newsworthy /by maojacan

How we choose the next generation of scientists is at the root of a sustainable scientific enterprise. The true value of a PhD may therefore be in training leaders who […]

Lenient Grades, Unreliable Grades

March 20, 2017/0 Comments/in Newsworthy /by maojacan

Professors love to hate grade inflation, saying course marks aren’t as meaningful as they used to be. A new paper makes the case that easy grading is actually a symptom […]

New Report! How Instructors’ Teaching Practices Influence Student Success

March 13, 2017/0 Comments/in Newsworthy /by maojacan

A recent report explores the gap between evidence-based teaching practices and the methods that undergraduate instructors typically use. (Inside Higher Ed) The report is titled “Unpacking Relationships: Instruction and Student Outcomes” […]

Female-only “Nerd” Dorm Helps Keeps Women in Engineering

March 2, 2017/0 Comments/in Newsworthy /by maojacan

Coming from a small school district in Ohio where few girls took part in intensive mathematics or science classes, Callie Zawaski was an outlier. “I may have been the only […]

How to Handle Three Common Demands from Students in Large Courses

March 2, 2017/0 Comments/in Newsworthy /by maojacan

I recently had a conversation with a faculty member about the midterm feedback she had received from the students in her course. Her response to their suggestions echoed one I often hear in […]

AAU Mini-Grant Recipients – Drs. Gina Poe, Megan McEvoy, and Erin Sanders: UCLA to Enhance Undergraduate STEM Education

March 1, 2017/0 Comments/in Faculty News /by maojacan

Pictured above are Director of the mini-grant Dr. Gina Poe (middle), and Co-Directors Drs. Megan McEvoy (right) and Erin Sanders (left). UCLA is among 12 universities nationally to be awarded […]