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Developmental Interventions to Address the STEM Gender Gap: Exploring Intended and Unintended Consequences.

Liben LS, Coyle EF.
UIID-AD: 254
2014;47:77-115. doi: 10.1016/bs.acdb.2014.06.001.

Women and girls in the United States continue to be underrepresented in STEM, particularly in engineering and technology fields. This gap has been attracting recent attention from those motivated to ensure that girls and women have access to a...

INTEGRATING RESEARCH INTO UNDERGRADUATE COURSES Current Practices and Future Directions.

Alkaher I, Dolan EL.
UIID-AD: 181
2014;403-434.

Course-based undergraduate research experiences, or CUREs, are increasingly common because they engage undergraduates in research at schools that are lacking a research infrastructure or that cannot accommodate large undergraduate populations in internship-style research. Course-based undergraduate research experiences are lauded...

How to recognize and address unconscious bias.

Grewal Daisy, Ku ManwaiCandy, Girod SabineC, Valantine Hannah.
UIID-AD: 1742
2013;405-412.

Despite the dramatic increase in the number of women and racial minorities pursuing careers in medicine, their representation among medical school faculty remains strikingly low. One potential explanation for this disparity is unconscious bias: opinions that we hold about...

How to understand promotion criteria for 'traditional' and 'research' tracks.

Gore-Felton Cheryl.
UIID-AD: 1735
2013;369-375.

Congratulations! You have accepted a job offer and, for many of you, uprooted yourself and your family to pursue your academic career. This is a great achievement that is often accompanied by a mix of emotions, ranging from joy...

Introducing the AAS Astronomy Ambassadors Program.

Gurton S, Fienberg RT, Fraknoi A, Prather EE.
UIID-AD: 1023
2013;473:351-354.

Newly established by the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the Astronomy Ambassadors program(1) is designed to support early-career AAS members with training in resources and techniques for effective outreach to students and/or the public. A pilot Astronomy Ambassadors workshop will...

Challenging Traditional Assumptions of Secondary Science through the PET Curriculum.

Ross M, Otero V.
UIID-AD: 1155
2013;1513:350-353. doi: 10.1063/1.4789724.

This study seeks to illustrate aspects of a physics classroom experience in an underserved high school through the perspective of the students. This context was chosen with the intent of determining factors that lead to successful secondary physics education...

STEM schools: Facilitating student engagement and college readiness.

Franco MSuzanne, Patel NimishaH.
UIID-AD: 2418
2013;7-24.

This chapter will synthesize current literature regarding college readiness and its interpretation by students, parents, and higher education faculty. The authors also review student-engagement literature regarding the relationship between engagement, college readiness, and college persistence or graduation. Finally, the...

Stereotype Threat.

Shapiro JR, Aronson J.
UIID-AD: 615
2013;95-117.

No abstract available.

To Be or Not to Be; and to See or Not to See The Benefits of LGBT Identity Consciousness for Organizations and Employees.

Barron LG, Hebl MR, King EB, Martinez LR, Skorinko JL.
UIID-AD: 461
2014;151-176.

No abstract available.

INCORPORATING BIOMECHANICAL RESEARCH TOPICS INTO K-12 CLASSROOM DESIGN PROJECTS TO BROADEN PARTICIPATION AND INCREASE ENGINEERING INTEREST.

Asme, Briggs BN, Terry BS, Yowell J, Rivale S.
UIID-AD: 908
2012;333-341.

This paper describes a successful new biomechanical engineering curriculum created and implemented in two highly diverse local high schools by two graduate TEAMS (Tomorrow's Engineers... creAte. iMagine. Succeed.) Fellows. In the semester-long curriculum, students create robotic surgical devices to...

Special populations in gifted education: Understanding our most able students from diverse backgrounds.

Castellano JaimeA, Frazier AndreaDawn.
UIID-AD: 1550
2011;

Special populations in gifted education: Understanding our most able students from diverse backgrounds brings together the leading experts in the field who combine both their knowledge of and leadership experience with gifted students from diverse backgrounds. Public schools are...

The historical relationship between Black identity and Black achievement motivation.

Cross WilliamE.
UIID-AD: 1607
2011;1-27.

We began by outlining John Ogbu's oppositional-identity analysis for low-income Blacks. We reviewed historical studies and contemporary social-scientific research that contests the efficacy of a culture/mindset perspective by exploring what spokespersons for the Hip-Hop culture would classify as a...

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