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Sarah D. Castle; W. Carson Byrd; Benjamin P. Koester; Meaghan I. Pearson; Emily Bonem; Natalia Caporale; Sonja Cwik; Kameryn Denaro; Stefano Fiorini; Yangqiuting Li; Chris Mead; Heather Rypkema; Ryan D. Sweeder; Montserrat B. Valdivia Medinaceli; Kyle M. Whitcomb; Sara E. Brownell; Chantal Levesque-Bristol; Marco Molinaro; Chandralekha Singh; Timothy A. McKay; Rebecca L. Matz – International Journal of STEM Education, 2024
Background: Large introductory lecture courses are frequently post-secondary students' first formal interaction with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Grade outcomes in these courses are often disparate across student populations, which, in turn, has implications for student retention. This study positions such…
Descriptors: College Students, STEM Education, Research Universities, Grades (Scholastic)
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Baylee A. Edwards; Chloe Bowen; M. Elizabeth Barnes; Sara E. Brownell – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
The tension between religion and science as a long-standing barrier to science education has led researchers to explore ways of improving the experiences of Christian students in biology who can experience their Christianity as stigmatized in academic biology environments. As undergraduate science classes become student-centered, interactions…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Christianity, Religious Factors, Student Experience
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Angela N. Google; Chloe D. Bowen; Sara E. Brownell; M. Elizabeth Barnes – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
To increase participation of students of color in science graduate programs, research has focused on illuminating student experiences to inform ways to improve them. In biology, Black students are vastly underrepresented, and while religion has been shown to be a particularly important form of cultural wealth for Black students, Christianity is…
Descriptors: Student Experience, African American Students, Christianity, Biology