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Ours Lived Lived: Faculty Responses To Stem Students' Lived Experiences, Stan Nguyen
Ours Lived Lived: Faculty Responses To Stem Students' Lived Experiences, Stan Nguyen
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Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields have historically had low undergraduate retention rates. To aid in counteracting this, classroom exercises, or 'belonging interventions' can play a vital role in keeping new STEM students motivated through the "cultural shock" period of the college transition. However, much is still unknown about STEM instructors' perceptions on belonging interventions in STEM classrooms. Would understanding students' lives and experiences in the past and present help them make better informed decisions in their teaching practices?
To answer this question, we drew upon results from a belonging intervention conducted by the Biology Education Research (BER) group …