By Jackie Stewart on September 23, 2018
I was invited to attend the NSF-funded TRESTLE annual meeting, which took place last week at the University of Kansas. TRESTLE (TRansforming Education, Stimulating Teaching and Learning Excellence) is is a multi-institution, NSF-funded project for improving STEM education through discipline-based education experts and other models. Gülnur Birol and Warren Code of Skylight lead UBC’s involvement in the network. UBC’s main role in the project […]
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By Jackie Stewart on September 19, 2018
Those involved in chemistry education research (CER) met at our inaugural department-wide CER group meeting Monday Sept. 10th, 2018. Anka Lekhi presented some of her work investigating the relationship between first-year international students’ personal epistemologies and problem solving approaches. She found that students’ successful completion of a conceptual problem in chemistry is positively linked to […]
Posted in Group Meeting | Tagged with epistemology, first-year chemistry, international students, research