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Science, Mathematics And Engineering Graduate Education And Students Of Color, Linda Serra Hagedorn
Science, Mathematics And Engineering Graduate Education And Students Of Color, Linda Serra Hagedorn
Linda Serra Hagedorn
Despite the country's general shortage of science, mathematics and engineering (SME) professionals (Holden, 1994), undergraduate education in these fields continues to be more of a "weeding-out" than a cultivation process (Miller, 1993). It may therefore come as little surprise that these fields are predicted to remain dominated by one gender (males) and one race (White) (Grandy, 1997). While the likelihood of students of color entering science, mathematics or engineering fields is slim, for the small number of undergraduate minority students who manage to major in SME the likelihood of remaining in the field and enrolling in subsequent graduate level education …
Cooperative Learning And Unity: The Perspectives Of Faculty, Students, And Ta's, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Hye Sun Moon, Donald Buchanan, Eric Shockman, Michael Jackson
Cooperative Learning And Unity: The Perspectives Of Faculty, Students, And Ta's, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Hye Sun Moon, Donald Buchanan, Eric Shockman, Michael Jackson
Linda Serra Hagedorn
A program designed to encourage university faculty and teaching assistants (TAs) to use cooperative learning in undergraduate classrooms was evaluated through the perspectives of faculty, TAs and students. The program was part of an initiative called DiverSCity, and the evaluation focused on the initial climate and culture of the college and responses to a series of faculty seminars conducted to introduce faculty to collaborative instruction and to encourage its use for the creation of diversity. Three surveys were administered in the spring semester 1998 to a sample of faculty, the population of TAs, and the senior student cohort. The response …