Teaching

Effective Teams

Resource about how to form and manage effective teams for group work in the classroom, including information to support underrepresented group members on teams.

How to learn how to fail

While this article may focus on students at highly ranked institutions, this is an issue that more broadly comes up for high achievers, including women and other underrepresented groups in STEM.

Gender affects course evals

It is good to be aware of gender bias in student course evaluations. There have been a few studies that have looked at this. It is particularly important for Department Personnel Committees to be aware of this when evaluating instructors.

Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement

Science specific tips based on research in learning to help withe classroom equity.

Eight Actions to Reduce Racism int he College Classrooms

From the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), this article address issues int eh classroom related to racism when professors might be part of the problem. Tips offer good places to start in any classroom or discipline to help EDI efforts.

"Female peers in small work groups enhance women's motivation, verbal participation, and career aspirations in engineering" - Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America PNAS 2015 April, 112 (16) 4988-4993

This article addresses the impacts of group of pairings for underrepresented minority groups in STEM. When women are in female majority groups they feel less anxious than when in minority groups. This has been seen particularly true when looking at first year students.