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Breaking out of the traditional lecture hall: Geocaching as a tool for experi...
It is uncommon for large service courses in geology to provide engaging outdoor activities that effectively mimic the experiences of working geologists, despite the fact that... -
Instructional Utility and Learning Efficacy of Common Active Learning Strategies
The adoption of active learning instructional practices in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses has been shown to result in improvements in... -
"Nothing about us without us:" The perspectives of autistic geoscientists on ...
Increasingly more students with disabilities, including autistic or otherwise neurodiverse students, are studying for degrees in STEM field subjects. In recent years, there has... -
Integrating polar research into undergraduate curricula using computational g...
Polar research plays a vital role in developing our understanding of Earth’s climate system. It is intrinsically interdisciplinary, lending itself to integration into existing... -
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A university geology department partnered with a STEM-focused high school to introduce project-based learning-centered geoscience content at the ninth-grade level. We... -
Training graduate teaching assistants in the geosciences: Our practices vs. p...
In response to calls for reformed teaching practices in college STEM labs and courses, and to support graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in their general teaching... -
Connecting chemistry concepts with environmental context using student-built ...
Educational research supports incorporating active engagement into K-12 education using authentic STEM experiences. While there are discipline-specific resources to provide... -
Motivators and inhibitors to change: Why and how geoscience faculty modify th...
The call to improve undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education can be answered by undergraduate faculty modifying their course content and... -
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Incorporating active learning strategies into introductory STEM courses has been shown to improve student outcomes, however, these activities take class time to execute. The... -
An exploratory study examining undergraduate geology students’ conceptions re...
Past research has evaluated how preservice teachers, high school students, and introductory college students conceptualize geologic or deep time. The ability to think on... -
"Geologic issues: Community impacts and science communication"—An introductor...
Responding to the need for recruitment and retention of a diverse geoscience population, we developed a capstone homework assignment for use in introductory-level geoscience... -
Effect of fading scaffolds on the mastery of scientific abilities in inquiry-...
Inquiry-based instruction facilitates students’ acquisition of scientific abilities, but little is known about how rapidly college students master these skills, particularly... -
Looking in the Right Places: Minority-Serving Institutions as Sources of Dive...
Despite gains over the last decade, the geoscience student population in the United States today continues to lag other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics... -
School counselor perceptions of the geosciences and career exploration activi...
A sample of 43 Mississippi school counselors was surveyed regarding resources they use in career counseling, as well as resources they believe are effective in informing... -
Affective factors during field research that influence intention to persist i...
Although field and research experiences have been shown to help retain students in the geosciences, there is less known about how and why this is the case. We created a... -
Examining middle school students’ knowledge and beliefs about earthquake and ...
This study examined middle school students’ knowledge and beliefs about earthquake and tsunami through a multidimensional perspective of conceptual change theory. Four related... -
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The Mineralogy Concept Inventory (MCI) is a statistically validated 18-question assessment that can be used to measure learning gains in introductory mineralogy courses.... -
Applying the Geoscience Education Research Strength of Evidence Pyramid: Deve...
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are responsible for direct instruction of geoscience undergraduate students at an array of universities and have a major effect on the... -
Using big data to engage undergraduate students in authentic science
The abundance of freely available, scientific big data sets can facilitate discovery-based authentic science projects saving time, money, and effort. This is especially true of...
