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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
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Ing, Marsha; Burnette, James M., III; Azzam, Tarek; Wessler, Susan R. – Educational Researcher, 2021
Opportunities for large numbers of undergraduates to engage in authentic research experiences are limited in many large public institutions. These large public institutions serve the vast majority of students who are historically underrepresented in STEM fields, such as first-generation, low-income students of color. Although a course-based…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Academic Achievement
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Kressler, Benikia; Kressler, Jochen – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
The concept of active learning as a superior mode of instruction has recently received great attention in the education research literature. It holds promise of steering students away from rote memorization towards higher order thinking (as defined by Bloom's taxonomy revised). However, few studies focus on student perceptions of higher order…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Active Learning, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation
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Fairfax, Emily; Brown, Megan R. M. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2019
People with disabilities are chronically underrepresented in many geoscience departments across the country. There are a number of proposed reasons why this under-representation persists, one of which is lack of instructor training in designing accessible curriculum and making high-quality accommodations. This not only puts students with…
Descriptors: Geology, College Science, Undergraduate Students, Science Laboratories
Reimer, Lynn Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
First-generation, low-income, underrepresented minority (URM) and female undergraduates are matriculating into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors at unprecedented levels. However, a disproportionate number of these students end up graduating in non-STEM disciplines. Attrition rates have been observed to spike in conjunction…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, First Generation College Students, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students