Library+Resources

=Resources for Course Transformation=

The [|Women & Science Program] has collected a variety of reference materials which can be borrowed from Polk Library. Seymour, Elaine and Hewitt, Nancy M. //Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences.// Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Tobias, Sheila. //They're Not Dumb, They're Different: Stalking the Second Tier//. Tucson: Research Corporation, 1990.

Backward Design (start with student learning outcomes, build the course around them)
Wiggins, Grant P., McTighe, Jay. //Understanding by Design.// Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2006. Walvoord, Barbara E. and Anderson, Virginia J. //Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment.// San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. Huba, Mary and Freed, Jann. //Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning.// Allyn & Bacon, 2000. Barkley, Elizabeth; Cross, K. Patricia; Major, Claire H. //Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty.// San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. Howe, Neil and Strauss, William. //Millennials Rising: the Next Great Generation//. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.

Active Learning techniques (especially for large classes)
Angelo, Thomas A. and Cross, K. Patricia. //Classroom Assessment Techniques: a Handbook for College Teachers.// San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993. Charles C. Bonwell, James A. Eison. //Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom.// San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. Duncan, D. //Clickers in the Classroom: How to Enhance Science Teaching Using Classroom Response Systems.// San Francisco: Pearson/Addison Wesley, 2005. [|Eric Mazur's website] new study of active learning techniques in a 700 student biology course: //Chronicle of Higher Education// [|article from June 3 Science]

The Learning Cycle
Wirth, Karl R. and Perkins, Dexter. [|Learning to Learn]. An introduction to theories of learning (.pdf and .doc formats). D.A. Kolb, //Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development//, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984. Isabel Briggs Myers and Mary H. McCaulley. //Manual: A Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator// (2nd ed.). Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, 1985. James E. Stice, “Using Kolb’s Learning Cycle to Improve Student Learning,” //Journal of Engineering Education//, 77(5), 291-296, 1987. Susan M. Montgomery and Linda N. Groat, “Student Learning Styles and their Implications for Teaching,” http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/CRLT_no10.pdf

Combating Stereotype Threat in Classrooms
Stout JG, Dasgupta N, Hunsinger M, McManus MA. [|STEMing the tide: Using ingroup experts to inoculate women's self-concept in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)]. //J Pers Soc Psychol.// 2011, **100**(2):255-70. [|Walton,] [|GM], [|Cohen,] [|GL.][|A Brief Social-Belonging Intervention Improves Academic and Health Outcomes of Minority Students]. //Science// 2011, **331**(6023):1447-1451. Ceci, SJ, Williams, WM. [|Understanding current causes of women’s underrepresentation in science]. //PNAS// 2011, 108(8): 3157-3162. [|Inclusive Teaching Strategies] from University of Washington