Academic Journals
Respect Differences? Challenging the Common Guidelines in Social Justice Education
Abstract: In social justice education, it is common to establish guidelines for classroom discussions. We examine the limits of these guidelines in achieving the goals of social justice education, arguing that they are not responsive to power relations. Rather than...
A Meta-Analysis of School Belonging and Academic Success and Persistence
Abstract: According to the U.S. Department of Education (2012), 7.4 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds in this country were out of school without a GED in 2010. Numerous studies have found evidence that supports the relationship between school belonging and academic...
Education’s Epistemology: Rationality, Diversity, and Critical Thinking
Abstract: This collection extends and further defends the “reasons conception” of critical thinking that Harvey Siegel has articulated and defended over the last three-plus decades. This conception analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality of candidate...
Bringing Automatic Stereotyping Under Control: Implementation Intentions as Efficient Means of Thought Control
Abstract: The evidence for whether intentional control strategies can reduce automatic stereotyping is mixed. Therefore, the authors tested the utility of implementation intentions— specific plans linking a behavioral opportunity to a specific response—in reducing...
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...
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,...
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...
Bias in Online Classes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Abstract: While online learning environments are increasingly common, relatively little is known about issues of equity in these settings. We test for the presence of race and gender biases among postsecondary students and instructors in online classes by measuring...
Getting Under the Hood: How and for Whom Does Increasing Course Structure Work?
Abstract: At the college level, the effectiveness of active-learning interventions is typically measured at the broadest scales: the achievement or retention of all students in a course. Coarse-grained measures like these cannot inform instructors about an...
Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is an advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers, appointed by the President to augment the science and technology advice available to him from inside the White House and from...