DBER and SoTL

Ethical Lab Notebook Management in STEM Programs

Rachel Horak facilitated the JMBE Live! session on “Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in CUREs.” Presented on October 28, 2022, Caitlin Light and Sonia Hills at Binghamton University. Sonia Hills was an undergraduate. Binghamtopn University’s First-year Research Immersion Program is a University-wide STEM program enrolling 300 first-year students. The three semester […]
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Kombucha Project in Microbiology Education: A Success Story

Tonight I watched another JMBE Live! session: Microbiology lobs with virtual and hands-on parts with Marcos Garcia-Ojeda. I skipped the JMBE discussions with editors mostly because I didn’t want to hear myself. Garcia-Ojeda does a lot of work with SABER and other groups. The research article they published in 2022 was about their virtual labs […]
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Understanding Collaborative Exams: Insights from JMBE Live

Tonight I continued watching the JMBE Live! session with Claire Meaders from the University of California San Diego. The session was recorded on May 5, 2023. The session focused on the study on collaborative two-stage exams. There were equity gaps on the individual portion of the exams. The good news: there were no equity gaps […]
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Benefits of Collaborative Two-Stage Exams in Biology

Tonight I watched Claire Meaders speak about two-stage exams as part of a JMBE Live! session. The title of the session was “Collaborative Two Stage Exams Benefit Students in a Biology Laboratory Course.” Meaders used menti and polled the attendees. Meaders explained that they joined UCSD as an Assistant Teaching Professor in November 2020. They […]
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Measuring Reading Skills in Scientific Literature: Results and Tools

Tonight I watched a JMBE Live! session with the authors of the article “From Novice to Expert: An Assessment to Measure Strategies Students Implement While Learning to Read Primary Scientific Literature.” The session was presented on May 19, 2023 by Melissa McCartney, Min Zhong, Cerrone Foster, and Miriam Segura. The group worked together to study […]
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Exploring Student Knowledge in Biofilm Development

Drs. Sharleen Flowers and Stephanie Gardner presented at JMBE Live! on September 29, 2023. Rachel Horak moderated the session. The title of the session was “Here Is the Biology, Now What is the Mechanism? Investigating Biology Undergraduates’ Mechanistic Reasoning within the Context of Biofilm Development.” Gardner spoke about the challenges of understanding complex biological systems. […]
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Improving Microbiology Education: Lessons from the MCI Implementation

Tonight I watched another JMBE Live! session. Danielle Condry spoke about the Microbiology Concept Inventory and how they applied it. Jonathan Nguyen joined Condry. They explained the concept inventory used as a two-tiered questionnaire with questions and an opportunity for learners to share their reasoning. Concept inventories are focused, Condry noted, and began with the […]
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Revamping the Central Dogma: Teaching with Chromogenic Proteins

Tonight I watched another JMBE Live session with Greg Phillips from the University of Georgia and Nancy Boury from Iowa State University. Stanley Maloy, Editor in Chief of JMBE, was the moderator. Maloy spoke about how this Curriculum article revisits the Central Dogma. Boury and Phillips were together for several years at Iowa State. The […]
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Innovative Assessment Strategies Using Chatbots

Tonight I started watching some of the JMBE Live sessions I missed. This session was from May 17, 2024 and Greg Crowther and Thomas Knight shared their paper. Stanley Maloy, JMBE Editor-in-Chief, facilitated the session. Knight started by defining higher and lower-order cognitive skills (HOCS and LOCS). Knight defined lower-order cognitive skills from Bloom’s levels […]
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Quantifying Talk-Turns and Graphing Group Dynamics

The Online with LSE Webinar series recording I watched tonight was one I missed. It was from three years ago and entitled “Applying Graph Theory to Examine the Dynamics of Student Discussions in Small-Group Learning” with Dr. Stanley Lo. The session began with a diagram of the inputs and outputs affecting group work. The study […]
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