"library" for Science Education Research Journal Club

• Here's how to make your teaching more inclusive -- Viji Sathy & Kelly Hogan, July 22, 2019, Chronicle of Higher Education.
• "Experimenter gender and replicability in science", CD Chapman et al., Sci. Adv. 4, e1701427 (2018).
• Interesting commentary: too many buzzwords about teaching, not enough theory of learning; having a theory of learning would help us better understand pedagogy.
• Why so few women in STEM? -- research compliation published by AAUW
• Describing and Measuring STEM Teaching Practices, a comprehensive report and literature summary (2013)
• Stereotypes and the fragility of academic competence, motivation, and self-concept"
  J Aronson & CM Steele, in Handbook of Competence and Motivation, eds. AJ Elliot & CS Dweck (The Guilford Press, New York, 2005).
  • Reading for Aronson's talk, November 3, 2009, 11 am in the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library.
• "Women in the Sciences"
  Meg Urry
  APS Forum on Physics & Society (Summer 2009).
  • Excellent discussion on gender issues and inadvertent bias in science.
• "Farewell, Lecture?"
  Eric Mazur
  Science 323, 50 (2009).
  • Excellent brief introduction to clickers.
• "Responding to possible plagiarism"
  TC Long, M Errami, AC George, Z Sun, & HR Garner
  Science 323, 1293 (2009).
  • Looks at plagairism by scientists.
• "Biology concept inventories: Overview, status, and next steps"
  C D'avanzo, BioScience 58, 1079-1085 (2008).
  • Also a good introduction to concept inventories in general.
  • See also the paper we read on December 18, 2008 for a genetics concept inventory.
• "Creative and occupational accomplishments among intellectually precocious youths: An age 13 to age 33 longitudinal study"
  J Wai, D Lubinski, & CP Benbow, J. Ed. Psych. 97, 484-492 (2005).
  • accomplishments of the best of the best on the SAT.
• "Instructional interventions affecting critical thinking skills and dispositions: A stage 1 meta-analysis"
  PC Abrami, RM Bernanrd, E Borokhovski, A Wade, MA Surkes, R Tamim, & D Zhang, Rev. Ed. Research 78, 1102-1134 (2008).
  • "...summarizes the available empirical evidence on the impact of instruction on the development and enhancement of critical thinking skills and dispositions." Instruction in critical thinking works, and this describes how to best teach it. KP says it's heavy on methodology, not as directly useful for most of our teaching needs.
• Perceptions about what it takes to succeed in STEM fields may keep women out" -- mentions several articles on this topic
• A Private Universe -- classic video illustrating how student misconceptions make learning harder, along with a 20-years-later interview of the key student in the original movie.