equity

Undergraduate Research with the CREWS Project

Megan Radosevich from Carroll College presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “Analyzing regional and seasonal microbial community variation from a contaminated Montanana river.” Their project is called CREWS: Consortium for Research on Environmental Water Systems that is funded by the Montana NSF EPSCoR Partnership with several colleges and universities in Montana. A central […]
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A Decade Later, Reflections on Alternative Assessments

Tonight I watched the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022 session entitled “Revisiting the Authentic Assessment Framework a Decade after it as Created to Measure the Authenticity of Contemporary Assessment Tasks” presented by Kelley Burton. They are from the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Burton published “A Framework for Determining the Authenticity of Assessment Tasks: […]
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Assessment with Student Partners

“Engaging Students as Partners in Assessment” was the title of the session Madison Taber presented at the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022. Taber is a Director of Assessment at the Our Lade of the Lake University in Texas. Taber is also a Ph.D. student interested in identity and equity in education. Taber self described as a […]
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Assessment Literacies?!

As part of the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022, Andrew G. D. Holmes and Dom Henri from the University of Hull, UK spoke about “Assessment Literacies/University Literacies.” This twenty-five-minute session started with the presenters describing the challenges of reducing the “hidden curriculum:” “tacit and unwritten ‘taken-for-granted’ aspects of the curriculum that some students know and some […]
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Grading Options

Today I watched the 2022 Keynote Speaker for the Alternative Assessment Institute, David Buck. Their title was “Ungrading: A Road to Equity.” They mentioned that “ungrading is a pedagogical mindset (philosophy) that de-centers the control-based function of grades to create space for learning that’s divorced from stress. The learning process is centered, students display agency, […]
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Practical News Storytelling

Catriona Forrest from the University of Glasgow, UK presented at the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022 on “Practical News Stories.” This course and assignments have developed over time. This masters of sociology course teaches research methods and practical journalism skills. The MSc Media, Communications and International Journalism Program has four core courses. They use a rubric […]
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Engagement and Barriers to Access to HIPs

Tonight I checked out several ASMCUE 2022 posters and came across the recording for the poster entitled “Are high-impact practices accessible for all? Exploring the factors impacting engagement in beneficial educational experiences for undergraduate STEM students with disabilities.” The presenter was Emma Goodwin from Sara Brownell’s group at Arizona State University. Goodwin spoke about increasing […]
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Convenient Office Hours?

Tonight’s ASMCUE 2022 poster session recording was entitled “A simple intervention to schedule unique weekly office hours increases student access.” Caitlin Lee Williams is a SPIRE postdoctoral fellow at UNC and taught at UNC-Pembroke. They spoke about barriers to office hours and little research on these barriers. Williams mentioned there is one large exploratory, survey-based […]
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Microbiology and Public Health across Languages

The ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session I watched tonight was entitled “Microbrew. Empathetically Engaging With Our Community Through A Service Learning Project.” Pete Chandrangsu, an assistant professor at Scripps College, and Jessie Lee Mills, an assistant professor at Pomona College, were the presenters. They collaborated with the Latino & Latina Roundtable and Pitzer College. Chandrangsu teaches […]
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Instructor Perceptions of Race, Racism, and Racial Equity

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 Microbrew: Instructor Perceptions of Race, Racism, and Racial Equity Discussion in Introductory Biology. This session was a twenty-four-minute live session, and I watched the recording. The presenter was Dr. Candice Idlebird from Harris-State University, an Assistant Professor. The abstract cited guidance for making biology classrooms more inclusive including the Drewsbury & […]
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