Reading List for M/S Gateway Task Force
Articles and books on topics related to student success in STEM courses
Student views
books at Polk Library
Talking About Leaving (Seymour & Hewitt)
They're Not Dumb, They're Different (Tobias)
news articles
Why College Students Leave the Engineering Track (NYTimes)
Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (NYTimes)
data
Students Who Study Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in Postsecondary Education (National Center for Educational Statistics)
Stereotype Threat
Walton, GM , Cohen, GL. A Brief Social-Belonging Intervention Improves Academic and Health Outcomes of Minority Students. Science 2011, 331(6023):1447-1451.
N. Dasgupta, Ingroup Experts and Peers as Social Vaccines Inoculate the Self-Concept: The Stereotype Inoculation Model Psychological Inquiry 2011, 22:4, 231-246.
Ideas for Closing the Achievement Gap
Closing the Achievement Gap Without Widening a Racial One (NY Times)
Meet Societal Challenges by Changing the Culture on Campus (Chronicle)
Minority Students and Research Universities: How to Overcome the "Mismatch" (Chronicle)
Bolstering African-American Success in the STEM Fields (Chronicle)
Inclusive Teaching Methods
Eric Mazur's website (peer instruction, conceptests, demonstrations)
Carleton Conceptest collection
Inclusive Teaching Strategies from University of Washington
POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) and SWH (Science Writing Heuristic)books at Polk Library
Active Learning (Bonwell & Eison)
Biology Brought to Life (Handelsman)
Classroom Assessment Techniques (Angelo & Cross)
Collaborative Learning Techniques (Barkley, Cross, Major)
Student Active Science (McNeal & D'Avanzo)
Teaching with Classroom Response Systems (Bruff)
W&S Spring Conference
