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Jessie Durk; Amy Smith; Bilgesu Aydin; Adèle Julia; Isabel M. Rabey – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Being lectured by a woman physicist can benefit students' performance, motivation, and engagement with physics. However, due to the severe underrepresentation of women physics faculty, these instances may be scarce. Through semistructured interviews with seven women physics lecturers, we used expectancy-value theory to understand the situative…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Physics, Science Instruction
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Lackovic, Nataša; Popova, Biliana – Learning, Media and Technology, 2021
Lectures prevail as a ubiquitous teaching and learning method across universities worldwide. Whereas lectures have been conceptualized from language-centred perspectives, lectures' materiality as linked to their socio-cultural and historical meanings have been scarcely explored. To address this gap, we tackle the materiality of communication in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lecture Method, College Faculty, Universities
Vu, Viet Quoc – ProQuest LLC, 2017
STEM education reform in higher education is framed around the need to improve student learning outcomes, increase student retention, and increase the number of underrepresented minorities and female students in STEM fields, all of which would ultimately contribute to America's competitiveness and prosperity. To achieve these goals, education…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Large Group Instruction, Introductory Courses, STEM Education
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Hirshbein, Laura D.; Fitzgerald, Kate; Riba, Michelle – Academic Psychiatry, 2004
Objective: This article explores past, present, and future issues for women and teaching in academic psychiatry. A small study of didactic teaching responsibilities along faculty groups in one academic psychiatry department helps to illustrate challenges and opportunities for women in psychiatric teaching settings. Background: Although women have…
Descriptors: Tenure, Women Faculty, Medical Schools, Females