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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The PWI is learning from the HBCU on what it means to take a talent development mindset.

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Student engagement and sense of mattering in a large UG course

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Guided by Rosenberg and McCullough (1981) and by France & Finney (2010), I established that for students to feel they mattered in MB1, they needed to believe that their presence, voice and actions were key to their learning, the learning of their peers and the overall success of the course. I encourage you all to give it a go!

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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

University Business

In the United States, as many computer science degrees were conferred in 2021 as there were across the entire scope of humanities—computer science degrees having roughly doubled in number since 2010 even as humanities degree counts fell by half.

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Career Development Planning

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Brophy (2010) makes an important point in discussing the role of feedback in motivating students to learn and again I hoped that my change in approach to feedback on this assessment could encourage more students to engage in the course and with the assessments. 2010): Motivating students to learn 3rd edition London: Routledge Gibbs, G.

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Characterising teaching practices using lecture recordings

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Peer Instruction is a teaching technique commonly used in physics courses (Dancy and Henderson, 2010) and across STEM courses in general at The University of Edinburgh. FILL was designed with a focus on ‘Peer Instruction’ (Mazur, 1999). References Dancy. and Henderson. American Journal of Physics. link] Mazur. 67, 359.

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Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

It has also been shown that the more a student had viewed the recordings, the better they performed at the end of the course (Traphagen, Kucsera, & Kishi, 2010). Educational Technology Research and Development , 58 (1), 19–37. 2007; Dolnicar, 2005). The Higher Education Academy. Traphagen, T., Kucsera, J. V., & Kishi, K.

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Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing: Making large lectures more interactive

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Since 2010, she has been working in a range of Initial Teacher Education programmes as lecturer, course organiser and programme director. She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate Initial Teacher Education programmes. Deborah Holt Dr Deborah Holt is a Bicentennial Fellow in the Moray House School of Education and Sport.