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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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Guron, Marta; Paul, Jared J.; Roeder, Margaret H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Although much of the scientific community concerns itself with ideas of a sustainable future, very little of this interest and motivation has reached the classroom experience of the average chemistry major, and therefore, it is imperative to expose students to these ideas early in their careers. The focus of most undergraduate chemistry curricula…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Majors (Students), Sustainability