Program

The meeting program can be found here.

Posters are to be a maximum size of 48 x 36 inches.

Saturday Concurrent Talks

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Session 1

Workshop A: The Change Agents Among Us: Exploring Regional Collaborations Across Community Colleges and 4-year Institutions for Increasing the Adoption of Inclusive Teaching Practices (Moore & Gregg)

Workshop B: Assess what’s important: Creating assessments that show how students use their knowledge (Ebert-May, Doherty & Sorensen)

Workshop C: Finding an Academic Career Path That is Right for You (Buswell)

Workshop D: Measuring what matters: Learning how Rasch Analysis can help you build & validate your own DBER survey (Wilton, Katz & Clairmont)

Workshop E: Increase participation in collaborative learning with peer evaluations (Tucker)

Workshop F: How People Learn (Lo & Callis-Duehl)

Workshop G: Designing educational research studies for college science classrooms (Williams & Shaffer)

Session 2

Workshop H: Making metacognition mainstream: Embedding activities throughout the course curriculum to promote student self-regulation (McDonald)

Workshop I: Reproducible Analysis in R (Ko)

Workshop J: Using computer-scorable, constructed-response formative assessments to transform your teaching of principle-based reasoning in biology (Doherty & Wenderoth)

Workshop K: The Genomics Education Partnership: A CURE for all levels of undergraduate biology education that uses genomics and bioinformatics to teach eukaryotic gene structure and regulation (Sawa, Goodman & Leatherman)

Workshop L: Calling on Biology Students: OMG it’s my turn next! (Alvares & Shlichta)

Workshop M: Qualitative data in educational research: Analyzing verbal data (Lam & del Rosario)

Workshop N: You can publish this too! Developing, publishing, and highlighting innovative classroom activities in CourseSource (Smith & Vinson)

Sunday Morning Plenary Talks

Sunday Morning Workshop

Forming Research and Teaching Collaborations Between 2- and 4-year Colleagues

This session will give 2- and 4-year SABER West attendees an opportunity to share research and teaching interests and discuss collaborations. The goal will be to form small teams of attendees with shared interests and a plan of implementation to begin a collaborative project. (Mohammadian, Ridgway, Suarez, Wang)

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