A quick reference for captioners with guidance on caption placement, line division, fonts, editing, music, grammar, sound effects, speaker identification, and slang.

A free browser add-on which checks Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets for accessibility issues, and directs you in how to fix the issues.

Tips for making your Google docs more readable by everyone.

"Equity by Design is intended to serve as a blueprint for teachers to alter the all-too-predictable outcomes for our historically under-served students. A first of its kind resource, the book makes the critical link between social justice and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) so that we can equip students (and teachers, too) with the will, skill, and collective capacity to enact positive change."

Chardin, M., & Novak, K. (2021). Equity by design: Delivering on the power and promise of UDL. Corwin A Sage Company.

A comprehensive practical reference for curators and authors of STEM OER. See also Jimes, C., Evans Godwin, A., Fox, S., Karaglani, A., Lobaito, N. (2021). STEM OER Accessibility Framework and Guidebook. QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/ERXF-AH09

A Canvas course module on image accessibility in STEM, designed for post-secondary faculty. It uses Silktide, which is a website accessibility simulator.

Details special strategies for neurodiversity.
 

Details special strategies for students with ADHD

Interactive tool to use for implementing the Universal Design for Learning.

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."

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

A helpful summary infographic on using UDL by Understood By All

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

Five minute video on how to use the UDL framework.

Main website for Universal Design for Learning 

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

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

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

See also Figure of the Day
 

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.

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.

A 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 

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

Available as supplemental material

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

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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.

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.