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The Grove Center

Research Publications

2024

  • Wang, Ying, Rayne A. Sperling, and Jennelle L. Malcos. "Supporting college students’ metacognitive monitoring in a biology course through practice and timely monitoring feedback." Metacognition and Learning (2024): 1-40.

2023

  • Wheeler, Lindsay B., Katerina V. Thompson, Gili Marbach-Ad, Patrick Sheehan, Jacqueline L. Bortiatynski, and Cindy Ghent. "Factors Predicting the Extent to which STEM Students Value Cross-Disciplinary Skills: A Study across Four Institutions." CBE—Life Sciences Education 22, no. 2 (2023): ar20.

2022

  • Hatfield, Neil, Nathanial Brown, and Chad M. Topaz. "Do introductory courses disproportionately drive minoritized students out of STEM pathways?." PNAS nexus 1, no. 4 (2022): pgac167.

2021

  • Shandera, Sarah, Jes L. Matsick, David R. Hunter, and Louis Leblond. "RASE: Modeling cumulative disadvantage due to marginalized group status in academia." Plos one 16, no. 12 (2021): e0260567.
  • Leblond, Louis, and Melissa Hicks. "Designing laboratories for online instruction using the iOLab device." The Physics Teacher 59, no. 5 (2021): 351-355.

2020

  • Beckman, Matthew. "Assessment and evaluation tools for the undergraduate statistics major." (2020).
  • Campbell, Jacqueline M. "Learning from Worked Examples in Chemistry: A Self-Explanation Training." PhD diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 2020.
  • Brown, Nathanial, Sarah Zipf, Sherry Pagoto, Molly E. Waring, Neil Hatfield, Lindsay Palmer, Katherine A. Lewis, and Deja Workman. "Emergency remote instruction in 2020: Differential impacts on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics students’ confidence and belonging, by gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status." In Frontiers in Education, vol. 7, p. 915789. Frontiers Media SA, 2022.

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Please mark your calendars for the following meeting dates:

  • First meeting: Tuesday, October 28, at 1:00 p.m., Room 243, Ritenour Building
  • Second meeting: Tuesday, November 11, at 1:00 p.m., Room 243, Ritenour Building
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