Science Education Research Journal Club links

This is not meant to be a comprehensive set of links, but rather just a listing of links that ScERJ club members have recommended.

• PhysPort: curated resources based on physics education research
• Science in the Classroom -- annotated research papers and accompanying teaching materials, to help students learn how to read journal articles.
• The Underrepresentation Curriculum Project: A flexible curriculum designed to help students critically examine scientific fields and take action for equity, inclusion and justice.
• COPUS: Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM
• RTOP: Real Time Observation Protocol
• TDOP: Teaching Dimensions Observation Protocol
• University is Wisconsin mentoring assessments
• OpenPhysics website -- online textbook, open source code, elegant tile-based interface, not just for physics textbooks
• ScERJ club blog -- inactive since 2014
• Gendered language in teacher reviews: explore words used to describe male and female teachers in 14 million "RateMyProfessor.com" reviews. Interesting words include 'genius', 'cruel', 'mean', 'amazing'.
• PeerWise: website where students can "create, share, evaluate and discuss practice questions."
• Clicker resources page at the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the UBC
• "9 Major takeaways from 'An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching' MOOC", a blog post by Geoff Benn, aka The Prospective Prof.
• Context Rich Problems -- University of Minnesota physics education group
• ATLMetroPhysics -- Atlanta-based informal group which meets periodically to discuss teaching physics
• How to evaluate teaching effectiveness -- Center for Research on Learning & Teaching, U. Michigan
• Team-based learning -- some good ideas here
• National Lab Day
• 18 minute lecture by Sir Ken Robinson on how we rob students of creativity by our educational methods
• Text of President Obama's speed on science, innovation, and STEM education (at the National Academy of Sciences, 4/27/09)
• First day questions for the learner-centered classroom, online article by Gary A. Smith (National Teaching & Learning Forum)
• Clicker article in the Chronicle of Higher Education
• Comic books and faculty innovation
• Notes from CCLI conference (Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement)
• "FIRST" -- a database of assessment data from undergrad science courses, with metadata.
• Course design tutorial
• Some of our ScERJ club members are famous! -- May 2008
• Student Assessment of Learning Gains
• Understanding Science, at Berkeley -- "how science really works"
• List of assessment tools for quantitative reasoning etc -- Carleton College
• Physics Teaching Technology Resource -- award-winning website, Quicktime videos demonstrating physics concepts

  Resources

• Concept inventories in physics
• Case Studies in Science
• Resources for Problem-Based Learning -- sample syllabi, sample problems, more
• Science in the classroom: annotated articles from Science magazine, suitable for classroom use (high school or undergraduate level)
• CLIPS: Communication Learning in Practice for Scientists. "CLIPS is a site designed to help you and your students with communication-related activities in science courses. We have built modules on communicating with numbers, presenting data, writing, infographics, posters, talks, referencing, and more."
• Rubrics: holistic, analytic, and single-point
• NRMN has free online mentor training -- asynchronous. Takes 2-3 hours, they say.
• Curated Teaching Evaluation Initiative Repository -- The Teaching Evaluation Change Initiatives repository serves as a searchable collection of teaching evaluations, which are assessed on how well they are aligned with systemic change.
• Teaching Evaluation Critical Resources -- - this searchable and annotated collection of publications and websites describes resources for evaluating faculty work to align it with systemic change for improved STEM undergraduate education.

  Further links

• Spider locomotion case study for physics