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Direct linkRebecca C. Fantone; Ina Zaimi; Krista Meserve; Eleni K. Geragosian; Christian O. A´lvarez-Sa´nchez; Jeffrey L. Spencer; Ginger V. Shultz – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are crucial facilitators of undergraduate education, yet many begin their teaching appointments with minimal knowledge of teaching practices. Chemistry Instructional Coaching offers GTAs at the University of Michigan an opportunity to develop their instructional practice through a collaborative, nonevaluative,…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Faculty Development, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students
Joshua Rutberg; Diane Jammula; Sheehan Ahmed – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] This study investigated the development of four new novice graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) and one nontenure track (NTT) faculty member assigned to teach an introductory physics laboratory course based on the investigative science…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Teaching Assistants, College Faculty, College Science
Hannah Jardine; Gavin Frome – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
Formative assessment is highly beneficial for student motivation and achievement, but in undergraduate courses, especially large introductory life sciences courses, it may be difficult for instructors to gather the evidence necessary for quality formative assessment. Undergraduate teaching and learning assistants (UTLAs) can help to implement…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Feedback (Response), Formative Evaluation, Undergraduate Students
Corrales, Adriana; Komperda, Regis – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Graduate education in chemistry typically follows an apprenticeship model, primarily aimed at preparing students for academia; however, the inclusion of teaching within this apprenticeship is not always clear as faculty, students, and other stakeholders do not agree on the need for instructional training. Despite the variability in training, a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Assistants
Chari, Jason V.; Knapp, Rachel R.; Boit, Timothy B.; Garg, Neil K. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
A course centered around transition-metal catalysis in modern drug discovery was designed to illustrate the central role of organic chemistry in driving small-molecule drug development. The course highlighted both fundamental and applied concepts, first with a focus on the drug discovery process, followed by foundational principles in catalysis…
Descriptors: Pharmacology, Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Graduate Students
Oluwatobiloba Theresa Ayangbola – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigated the science identity development of first-generation college students (FGCS) within learning assistant (LA) -supported science classes. The research aimed to uncover the complex and multifaceted processes through which FGCS come to see themselves as "science people" and how various elements of the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Scientific Attitudes, Self Concept, Introductory Courses
Andrea Malek Ash; Amr El Zawily – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
Grades matter to students, and grading methods have documented impacts on student outcomes. While many strategies exist to study variance and reliability in research settings, unique challenges exist when it comes to applying these techniques in practical settings of post-secondary coursework. In our course setting, teaching assistants (TA's)…
Descriptors: Grading, Reliability, Educational Improvement, Undergraduate Students
Wu, David G.; Heim, Ashley B.; Sundstrom, Meagan; Walsh, Cole; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
As physics laboratory courses (labs) transition from traditional, model-verifying activities to discovery-based investigations, it becomes crucial to understand the role of the instructor in the implementation of various lab types. Prior work has started to address this need by examining either coarse-grained frequencies or fine-grained content of…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Teacher Role
Phillips, Anna McLean; Sundstrom, Meagan; Wu, David G.; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
With the adoption of instructional laboratories that require students to make their own decisions, there is a need to better understand students' activities as they make sense of their data and decide how to proceed. In particular, understanding when students do not engage productively with unexpected data may provide insights into how to better…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Student Behavior, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses
Samantha Skrob-Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A growing body of literature focusing on undergraduate biology education calls for students to engage in the ways of thinking, feeling, and doing that reflect those in which biologists engage. Such reform efforts suggest that learning is best fostered when students engage in practices, concepts, and scientific reasoning as they endeavor to explain…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Education, Biology
Matthew R. Simon – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Responsive teaching is an approach to instruction that foregrounds listening for, attending to and engaging with student disciplinary thinking and ideas in the classroom. This style of teaching differs from how many traditional STEM classes are taught, especially at the college level. Entry-level college science courses that are taught by graduate…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Introductory Courses, College Science, Graduate Students
Wan, Tong; Geraets, Ashley A.; Doty, Constance M.; Saitta, Erin K. H.; Chini, Jacquelyn J. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) often lead laboratory and tutorial sections in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), especially at large, research-intensive universities. GTAs' performance as instructors can impact student learning experience as well as learning outcomes. In this study, we observed 11 chemistry GTAs and 11…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Teaching Methods, College Science
Attardi, Stefanie M.; Mintz, Noah M.; Rogers, Kem A. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2022
Online teachers are an under-researched population, but their perspectives are crucial to the successful implementation of online education. A fully online section of an established face-to-face (F2F) two-semester undergraduate anatomy course with a prosection laboratory commenced in 2012 at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Professors'…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Anatomy, Online Courses, Teaching Experience
Gelinas, Katharine A.; Ovid, Dax; Amaya-Mejia, Wilmer; Ayala, Rafael; Baek, Hanna E.; Gasmin, Eric; Hissen, Karina; Johnson, Amanda; Kossa, Emily; Levesque, Lauren; Lutz, Kurt R.; Lyons, Amichai S.; Mata, Alan F.; Mitchell, Casey G.; Paggeot, Lisa; Pastor-Infantas, Maria José; Patel, Cheryl; Prestol-Casillas, Susan; Chen, Kevin Xu; Tanner, Kimberly D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Instructor Talk--noncontent and nonlogistical language that is focused on shaping the classroom learning environment--is a recently defined variable that may play an important role in how undergraduates experience courses. Previous research characterized Instructor Talk used by faculty teaching in biology lecture classrooms. However, graduate…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Biology
Herridge, Michelle; Talanquer, Vicente – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Chemistry faculty instructors (FIs) and graduate student instructors (GSIs) regularly engage in the evaluation and grading of student responses in formal formative and summative assessments. In this study, we identified dimensions of variation in these instructors' approaches to the evaluation and grading of students' answers. Using qualitative…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Grading, Student Evaluation
