Gili Marbach-Ad

Factors Associated with STEM Students' Sense of Belonging part of Transforming Institutions Conference 2023:Program:Presentations:Session A
Students who feel a greater belonging to their university and department are significantly more likely to complete a degree. As such, it is important to examine what factors may contribute to sense of belonging in ...

Using a Faculty Learning Community to Promote Student Metacognitive Skills part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Transforming Institutions Conference 2021:Program:Poster Presentations:Poster Session D:Poster Session D-1
Undergraduate students often arrive unprepared for an environment where deep conceptual understanding, application, and synthesis are valued over memorization of facts. There are many metacognitive strategies to ...

Attributes of Faculty Learning Communities that Influence Faculty Attitudes and Practices part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Transforming Institutions Conference 2021:Program:Poster Presentations:Poster Session A:Poster Session A-2
Faculty learning communities (FLCs) have been proposed as a mechanism for facilitating faculty adoption of more effective, student-centered teaching practices (SCTP). We refer to FLCs as groups of faculty members ...

Guided by Evidence: Changing the Disciplinary Culture of Teaching and Learning part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Transforming Institutions Conference 2019:Program:Oral Presentations:Session F
Students learn better when they are actively engaged in constructing knowledge, but teaching approaches that foster student engagement are far from widespread in undergraduate STEM classrooms. To remedy this, the ...

Using Data-Driven Faculty Professional Development To Promote Change In Undergraduate Education part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Transforming Institutions Conference 2019:Program:Oral Presentations:Session B
Employers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields report that recent graduates are deficient in important workplace skills (e.g., collaboration, professional writing). This has motivated ...

The Biology Teaching Assistant Project: Theory of Change for a Network part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Transforming Institutions Conference 2019:Program:Oral Presentations:Session H
The Biology Teaching Assistant Project (BioTAP) is an NSF-funded research coordination network with a goal to support evidence-based institutional change in biology graduate teaching assistant (GTA) teaching ...

CMNS Teaching and Learning Center part of Network of STEM Education Centers:Center Profiles
Our Teaching and Learning Center supports discipline-based professional development programs for faculty and graduate students according to their needs.