Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity

by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals

Abstract: A host of simple teaching strategies—referred to as “equitable teaching strategies” and rooted in research on learning—can support biology instructors in striving for classroom equity and in teaching all their students, not just those who are already...

Education’s Epistemology: Rationality, Diversity, and Critical Thinking

by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals

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...

Whose Culture has Capital? A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth

by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals

Abstract: This article conceptualizes community cultural wealth as a critical race theory (CRT) challenge to traditional interpretations of cultural capital. CRT shifts the research lens away from a deficit view of Communities of Color as places full of cultural...

Female Role Models: Protecting Women’s Math Test Performance

by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals

Abstract: Recent theory and research suggest that certain situational factors can harm women’s math test performance. The three studies presented here indicate that female role models can buffer women’s math test performance from the debilitating effects of these...

African Americans and High Blood Pressure: The Role of Stereotype Threat

by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals

Abstract: We examined the effect of stereotype threat on blood pressure reactivity. Compared with European Americans, and African Americans under little or no stereotype threat, African Americans under stereotype threat exhibited larger increases in mean arterial...

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

by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals

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’...