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Teaching While Facing Gender Biases

Edsurge

Jett spoke in the interview about the ways in which course evaluations contained biases and were not always helpful in informing her teaching approaches. This is the idea of professors making “deposits” of knowledge into students’ minds and then later asking them to regurgitate the information without critical thought.

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Using the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Framework to Examine an Authentic Project-based Research Symposium

Faculty Focus

The courses that focus on research are foundational for social sciences majors. For many students in these courses, it is their first exposure to learning and applying the process of scientific inquiry, critical thinking and analysis, research and design, literature review, and statistical analysis.