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The Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) at The University of Texas at Austin has transformed the undergraduate science education experience by merging the teaching and research missions of the research university.
Pedagogy | Educational Practices | Assessments | AccessThe primary focus is to implement and evaluate our multiple-strategy approach for incorporating active learning into lower-level STEM courses. The multiple-strategies approach allows instructors flexibility in integrating active learning into a framework that meshes with their approach to teaching…
Pedagogy | Educational Practices | AssessmentsAs a direct result of the AAU STEM Initiative, we have implemented numerous professional development activities for our faculty. Professional development is being implemented in a multi-pronged fashion, and includes observation and feedback for faculty, and multiple professional development…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional DevelopmentUVA's upper level Biochemistry Laboratory course has been designed to ensure that all students graduating from the Chemistry department with a Biochemistry specialization have had research experience.
Pedagogy | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | AssessmentsUniversity of North Carolina formed a partnership between their Physics & Astronomy and Biology Departments to create a new learning environment incorporating methodology validated by research in science education.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional DevelopmentA partnership between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Maryland Baltimore County goal is to produce a dramatic increase in the number of high achieving under-represented undergraduate students in science that attain advanced STEM degrees.
Pedagogy | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | AccessThe University of Pennsylvania is supporting faculty in making use of Structured, Active, In-class Learning (SAIL) in their teaching. SAIL classes begin with the related premises that students benefit from learning by doing and that class time should be used to help students learn to work with…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership CommitmentThe University of Pittsburgh's Discipline-Based Science Education Research Center (dB-SERC) promotes and supports evidence-based teaching practices which bridge the gap between teaching and learning.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceTo improve learning, the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh is introducing a flipped, or inverted, classroom model in which direct learning (lecture) takes place outside of class, while class time is used for active learning.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceThe University of Pittsburgh's SEA-PHAGES program is a national, two-semester, discovery-based undergraduate research course that aims to increase undergraduate interest and retention in the biological sciences through immediate (freshman-year) immersion in authentic, valuable, yet accessible…
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