Academic Journals

 

Making Biology Learning Relevant to Students: Integrating People, History, and Context into College Biology Teaching

Biology is front page news, so it is important that we teach students to make connections between what they learn in the classroom and what they see in everyday life. As biology researchers, we recognize the negative implications of doing science in a vacuum as we are...

Effects of College Transition and Perceptions of the Campus Racial Climate on Latino College Students’ Sense of Belonging

Abstract: To clarify the conceptual underpinnings of Tinto's theoretical model of students' departure, the study presented here tested a conceptual model of the antecedents of sense of belonging to examine the extent to which Latino students' background...

Syllabus under Construction: Involving Students in the Creation of Class Assignments

Abstract: Collaborative teaching techniques are designed to alter the relationship between the professor and the students in order to share the process of learning class materials. In a collaborative classroom, students are encouraged to participate in the design and...

Meaningful inclusion of diverse voices: The case for culturally responsive teaching in nursing education

Abstract: Communication and diversity are essential features of safe and effective health care and of a safe and effective nursing workforce. Fostering diversity and meaningful inclusion of diverse perspectives in nursing school classrooms, labs and clinical learning...

Designing for assets of diverse students enrolled in a freshman-level computer science for all course

Abstract: Proficiency in computer science skills is crucial for today’s students to succeed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields and the modern workforce. Despite this fact, few universities count computer science (CS) classes toward the...

The promises and challenges of teaching from an intersectional perspective: Core components and applied strategies

Abstract: In this chapter, the authors present key assumptions and tenets of the framework of intersectionality and their relevance and application to college teaching. In addition to discussing several benefits of incorporating intersectionality into teaching,...

Reliance on individuating information and stereotypes in implicit and explicit person perception

Abstract: This research investigated whether stereotypes or individuating information take primacy in implicit and explicit person perception. Study 1 investigated whether variation in the diagnosticity of individuating information moderated stereotype bias in...

Co-creation in learning and teaching: the case for a whole-class approach in higher education

Abstract: There is a wide range of activity in the higher education sector labelled ‘students as partners’ and ‘co-creation in learning and teaching’. Several frameworks have been proposed to map and categorise existing partnership and co-creation roles, activities,...

A Canvas of Desire: The Racialized and Sexualized Professor in the Classroom

In the spring of 2003, I taught a course on lesbian and gay social formation in the United States from World War II to the present. As a recently hired assistant professor, since the course was newly developed in specific response to student interest I had high hopes...

Are teachers’ expectations different for racial minority than for European American students? A meta-analysis.

Abstract: Four quantitative meta-analyses examined whether teachers' expectations, referrals, positive and neutral speech, and negative speech differed toward ethnic minority students (i.e., African American, Asian American, and Latino/a) as compared with European...