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Capaldi, Mindy; Bugajski, Kristi; Goebbert, Bonnie Dahlke; Watters, Michael; Slattery, Michelle – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2022
Student retention is important to any university, especially keeping commuter students who are traditionally less anchored in campus life. Even more at risk, given the leaky STEM pipeline, are STEM commuter students. In 2016, Valparaiso University launched the Establishing Practices Integrating Commuter Students (EPIC) program, centered around…
Descriptors: College Students, STEM Education, Commuter Colleges, Undergraduate Students
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Irby, Stefan Mark; Pelaez, Nancy J.; Anderson, Trevor R. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been described in a range of educational contexts. Although various anticipated learning outcomes (ALOs) have been proposed, processes for identifying them may not be rigorous or well documented, which can lead to inappropriate assessment and speculation about what students actually…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Biochemistry, Outcomes of Education
Kararo, Alex T. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There have been calls by the Federal government and policymakers for improvements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education through the development of excellent teachers with the content knowledge and skills to teach and motivate students. A shared goal among teacher professional development (PD) programs is to improve…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Student Research, Science Instruction, STEM Education