DBER Resources

Books

Brennan RL. Educational Measurement, 4th ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.

Felder, Richard M., and Rebecca Brent. Teaching and learning STEM: A practical guide. John Wiley & Sons, 2016. 

Singer SR, et al. National Discipline-based education research: understanding and improving learning in undergraduate science and engineering. National Academies Press, 2012. www.nap.edu/catalog/13362

Slater SJ, Slater TF, Bailey JM. Discipline-based education research: A scientist’s guide. New York, NY: Freeman, 2010.

Journals that specialize in DBER publications

American Educational Research Association (several journals) - http://www.aera.net/Publications/Journals

CBE Life Sciences Education - http://www.lifescied.org/

Journal of College Science Teaching - https://www.nsta.org/college/

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education – http://jmbe.asm.org

Journal of Research in Science Teaching - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1098-2736

Journal of Chemical Education - http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jceda8

Journal of Engineering Education - https://www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/publications/jee

Journal of Geoscience Education - http://nagt.org/nagt/jge/index.htmlhttp://nagt.org/nagt/jge/index.html

Physics Education - http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9120/

MOOCs (Massive, Open Online Classes)

There have been recent courses on Coursera and EdX dealing with research methods, statistics, and data analysis. Some sample courses are listed below.

• Statistics with R specialization (Coursera, Duke University)

• The Data Scientist’s Toolbox (Coursera, Johns Hopkins University)

• R programming (Coursera, Johns Hopkins University)

• Qualitative Research Methods (Coursera, University of Amsterdam)

• Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences (Coursera, University of Amsterdam)

• An introduction to evidence-based undergraduate STEM teaching (EdX, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, and Michigan State University)