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Casey R. Griffin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Women continue to be underrepresented in undergraduate STEM majors. Prior studies identify women's sense of belonging, or the extent to which one feels like an accepted member of an academic community, as a key contributor to their decisions to stick with or leave their STEM majors. Women's social connectedness and perceived competence have been…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Sense of Community, Active Learning
Rebecca Machen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research study examined inclusive teaching practices, class policies, and course structures in active learning Calculus classes. Analyzing interview data, along with focus group discussions and classroom observations, obtained from 23 students and 4 instructors, themes were extracted through open-coding methodology, employing scholarly…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inclusion, Introductory Courses, College Mathematics
Brittney Anne Ferrari – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Effective active learning supports student engagement in generative learning behaviors, often through collaborative group work. Although collaborative learning has many benefits, it can be difficult for individual instructors to prompt knowledge building discourse in large enrollment courses. Peer Learning Assistants (PLAs) can provide the…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Introductory Courses
Staci Freeworth – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore faculty members' lived experiences with student resistance in a gateway STEM classroom. A comparative investigation was done of the case study population to evaluate differences in experiences in active learning classes that use LAs (LAF) and classes that use more passive methods without LAs (NLA). The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, STEM Education, Introductory Courses
Saroj Chirravuri – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how nontraditional community college students experienced, understood, and applied mathematical reasoning skills while engaged in active-learning pedagogy in an introductory biology course in a Southwestern United States Community College. The underlying theory was the Wigfield and Ecles…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Thinking Skills, Learner Engagement, Nontraditional Students
Rios, Jocelyn Noelle – ProQuest LLC, 2022
University mathematics classrooms are continuing to become more linguistically and culturally diverse. Students in these courses bring rich language resources for learning and engaging in classroom mathematical practices. Despite this diversity, little research has examined the role of language in post-secondary mathematics education. Using mixed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction, Introductory Courses, Language Role
Shaghayegh Fateh – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Having discussions and working together in groups with other learners is the indicator of the collaboration aspect of engagement. Collaborative engagement can be fostered through active learning approaches, since they provide more opportunities for interaction among learners. In Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) classrooms, small…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, English Language Learners
Gorman, Connor – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The effect of class size on student learning has numerous policy implications and has been a major subject of conversation and research for decades. Despite this, few studies have been done on class size in the context of university settings or physics courses. This dissertation helps address that gap in the literature by quantitatively analyzing…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Grades (Scholastic), Introductory Courses
Jenks, Theodore G. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this action research was to implement a digital game development project and describe its effects on the performance and attitudes of eighth-grade students in a required computer science course at South Carolina School District Alpha. The following research questions were explored: (1) How does the game development project impact…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Active Learning, Student Projects, Games
Joshua Rutberg – ProQuest LLC, 2022
It has been well-establishing in the field of educational research that traditional educational methods such as passive lectures and labs where students follow pre-designed procedures to verify information already told to them are not effective for promoting meaningful and lasting conceptual understanding. Alongside this knowledge have come a…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Laboratory Experiments
Lashawn A. Mcneil – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine how small groups of students in an introductory undergraduate chemistry course construct CERs and the influence of race, gender, and perceived status during this construction. The small groups of students engaged in three chemistry activities that required them to generate a claim, evidence, and reasoning…
Descriptors: Race, Gender Differences, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Cottone, Amanda Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Participation in the science workforce is low, and this can be partially attributed to low retention rates of undergraduate students who initially declare a science major. Low retention rates are further exacerbated for under-represented minority (URM) and first-generation (FG) college students pursuing science, and the existence of achievement…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Study, College Science, Biology
Such, Brenda Lee Ruei-Chi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Within the last 10 years, higher education has seen the accelerated development of blended learning (BL), active learning (AL), and STEM education. The presented mixed methods study examined a proposed framework that BL affordances enable or constrain AL, as a representation of constructivist learning theory, and that the relationship between BL…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Blended Learning, Academic Persistence, Affordances
Karim, Nafis Imtiaz – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This thesis explores impact of evidence-based active-engagement courses (EBAE) on student achievement and gender gap in introductory physics. The first study is about the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of the physics teaching assistants (TAs) at identifying introductory students' difficulties using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, Evidence Based Practice, Science Achievement
Turner, Larchinee – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This Dissertation in Practice (DiP) uses an action research (AR) methodology to answer a research question pertaining to the impacts of implementing a multimodal-based assessment project in the introductory, General Biology I (BI 114) classroom at East-State Junior College. A mixed-methods approach will be utilized to ascertain the impacts on…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Community Colleges, Action Research
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