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Meagan Sundstrom – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The under-representation of women in undergraduate science courses is well-documented. One significant challenge is that women may both perceive and receive less recognition from their science peers about their abilities as scientists than men. Here we investigate the presence and nature of such gender biases in peer recognition in the discipline…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Bias
Ngawang Youdon Gonsar – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This three-paper dissertation addresses the experience and the implementation of evidence-based learning practices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)/biology education. Study 1 explored instructional strategies and student perceptions and preferences for various teaching practices in graduate and undergraduate classrooms…
Descriptors: Active Learning, STEM Education, Biology, Science Education
McDowell, Travis Rae – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The first courses freshman university students typically enroll in are the introductory science and math, courses that bridge from and build upon their prior educational experiences. These introductory courses often have large enrollment lectures coupled with supplemental sessions to teach using traditional educational practices, which may operate…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Science, STEM Education, Chemistry
Dailey, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study explores relationships of student mindfulness and resilience with student stress, depression, and anxiety before and after a first-year seminar course introducing mindfulness and resilience techniques to undergraduate Saint Louis University (SLU) students. Mindfulness and resilience concepts and practice were introduced through large…
Descriptors: Correlation, Metacognition, Resilience (Psychology), First Year Seminars
Bingen, Charles W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine college algebra students' perceptions of self-efficacy relating to method of instruction in a large-lecture seminar and self-paced mastery outcomes course. This study was prompted by a lack of information currently available regarding students' perceptions of specific methods of instruction regarding…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Remedial Instruction, Teaching Methods, Algebra