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Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education

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A book by Thomas Tobin and Kristen Behling, written for "faculty members, faculty-service staff, disability support providers, student-service staff, campus leaders, and graduate students who want to strengthen the engagement, interaction, and performance of all college students."

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UDL Progression Rubric

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A rubric by Katie Novak & Kristan Rodriguez to use to measure your progress in putting the UDL framework into practice in a classroom 

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Getting Started with Universal Design for Learning Infographic

A helpful summary infographic on using UDL by Understood By All

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UDL on campus

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Step-by-step guides on how to develop an UDL syllabus, media and materials, etc.
 

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UDL at a glance video

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Five minute video on how to use the UDL framework.

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About Universal Design for Learning

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Main website for Universal Design for Learning 

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Compilation of concept inventories from the University of Pittsburgh’s dB-SERC

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A collection of published concept inventories, organized by biological topic. Also includes surveys to evaluate student attitudes, such as motivation and self-efficacy. 
 

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Compilation of concept inventories from the National Institute on Scientific Teaching

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A collection published concept inventories, organized by biological topic. Also includes surveys to evaluate student attitudes, such as motivation and self-efficacy. 

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Methods from Kirby et al. 2019 (The Figure of the Day: A Classroom Activity to Improve Students' Figure Creation Skills in Biology) evaluating the effectiveness of the “Figure of the Day” graphical exercise

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A rubric evaluating how the activity affects students’ figure creation abilities is given in Table 1.

See also Figure of the Day
 

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Quantitative Literacy VALUES Rubric

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A rubric for a broad assessment of quantitative skills such as interpretation, representation, calculation, applications, assumptions, and communication.  The rubric is available as a free download.

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Rubric for Experimental Design (RED)

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A published rubric designed and validated to identify challenges and measure knowledge of experimental design.  The rubric is Table 2 of Dasgupta et al. 2017, or linked here with some examples.

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Developing a Test of Scientific Literacy Skills (TOSLS): Measuring Undergraduates’ Evaluation of Scientific Information and Arguments

a graphA published instrument to assess major aspects of scientific literacy, including students’ ability to recognize and analyze the use of methods of inquiry that lead to scientific knowledge and their ability to organize, analyze, and interpret quantitative data and scientific information.

Available as supplemental material 

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Biological Variation In Experimental Design And Analysis (BioVEDA)

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A published instrument to evaluate students’ understanding of biological variation in the context of experimental design and analysis.

Available as supplemental material

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Biological Science Quantitative Reasoning Exam (BioSQuaRE)

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A validated, published instrument assessing student understanding of algebra, modeling, statistics, probability, and data visualization. 

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How to tell a good story, from NPR’s Life Kit

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Tips for telling a meaningful story, from an interview with Sarah Austin Jenness, the executive producer of The Moth and storytelling coach Meg Bowles. In this interview, Austin Jenness and Bowles offer a step-by-step guide on how to tell a story about yourself. Read the transcript or listen to the 26-minute NPR Life Kit podcast.

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How to do oral history

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Suggestions for anyone looking to start recording oral histories based on best practices used in the Smithsonian Oral History Program at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
 

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The anatomy of a great interview

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In this post for Facing Today (a Facing History blog), Kim Baskin (Associate Director of Education Partnerships at StoryCorps) offers tips for interviewing people that you know, from preparation to wrapping it up.

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Should all PhD’s be called ‘Doctor’? Female academics say yes.

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This article by Allie Weill reviews the discrepancy in usage of titles for PhD holders for women and people of color, and how this discrepancy promotes implicit biases that devalue these PhD holders. 

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Researcher Positionality- A Consideration of Its Influence and Place in Qualitative Research - A New Researcher Guide

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Focuses on entry-level/graduate student researchers; defines positionality and reflexivity and describes the process of finding one’s positionality. 

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Ethnographic Methodology

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A succinct summary of interview types and techniques including “Do’s and Don’ts”
 

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Conducting Interviews

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In this chapter of the open-source text Ethnography Made Easy, author Samuel Finesurrey details types of interviews, describes techniques and best practices, and briefly discusses evaluation and archiving of interviews. 

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applying UDL in college and faculty perspectives

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