Background Large introductory lecture courses are frequently post-secondary students' first
formal interaction with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) …

Examining institutional data from seven cohorts of students intending to major in biology
across five research-intensive institutions, this work analyzes opportunity gaps—defined as …

Discourse around Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education in
the United States has long focused on improving the persistence and academic …

The geosciences continue to grapple with the exclusion of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and
other students of Color. These patterns can be understood in the discipline's roots in …

As the Latinx student population grows in the United States, more public research-intensive
institutions are becoming Hispanic-Serving Research Institutions (HSRIs). This exploratory …

This article describes a first-person qualitative research study to understand how common
pedagogical approaches and cultural learning environments in STEM impact individuals …

Classroom experiences elicit many emotions in students. Of these emotions, anxiety, or the
feeling of uncertainty about a prospective event, has outsized impacts on students' academic …