Value of Mistakes
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03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4TH9C
This module familiarizes students with brain research describing our physiological response to mistakes, and how making mistakes is a useful part of learning.
Reflective Writing
03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4ZB1V
This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice.
QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education
14 Aug 2017 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, Jeremy M Wojdak, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Hayley Orndorf | doi:10.25334/Q44T0V
QUBES is designed to improve communication among educators, assist faculty in understanding and implementing novel content and teaching strategies in their classrooms, and create an academic reward system that emphasizes teaching as well as research.
02 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Alison N Hale, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Sam S Donovan | doi:10.25334/Q4Z082
This was a poster session at the 2015 Ecological Society of America meeting in Baltimore, MD.
QUBES-ESA partnership uses online Faculty Mentoring Networks to prepare faculty for teaching quantitative biology to undergraduates
13 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Nicole Chodkowski, Gabriela Hamerlinck, R Deborah Overath, Teresa Mourad, Kristin Jenkins, Sam S Donovan, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4G71G
Poster on Faculty Mentoring Networks presented at ESA 2018
Perspectives and practices in sharing data-centric adaptations in the biology classroom: How, why, when, and where are instructors sharing these high-impact pedagogies?
14 Dec 2020 | Contributor(s): Kaitlin Bonner, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Kristine Grayson, Ben Wu, Raisa Hernández Pacheco | doi:10.25334/TV22-GQ81
Poster presented at the 2019 meeting of the National Association of Biology Teachers on barriers to fully utilizing the complete Open Education Resources lifecycle
Number Sense
03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4313R
In this activity, students demonstrate their own innate number sense by playing an online game that asks them to estimate quantities that are flashed on screen for only milliseconds. Research suggests that all humans (and many other species as well!) are
Math anxiety and attitudes in biology undergraduate students
19 Jun 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4211P
Session presentation for BIOMAAP at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop
Intro to BIOMAAP - Student Math Anxiety Overview
03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4BH91
This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minutes-1 hour presentation to give students general information on math anxiety and a few strategies to try on their own.
Intro to BIOMAAP - Student Introduction
03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q49X3K
This presentation is intended as a short, in-class introduction to the program and some of the research behind it, in hopes of generating ‘buy in’ for a course-long use of BIOMAAP materials.
Intro to BIOMAAP - Faculty Math Anxiety Overview
03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4GB04
This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minute-1 hour presentation to introduce faculty or other instructors to the idea of math anxiety and some strategies they can use in their own courses.
Growth Mindset Prompt
06 Jun 2019 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jennifer Prairie | doi:10.25334/Q4X16B
Before giving an introduction to growth mindset, these prompts can be given to students so they can brainstorm activities they associate with long hours of practice (growth mindset) vs. natural talent (fixed mindset). Developed by Arietta Fleming-Davies.
Figure of the Day: Disease version
20 Nov 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies | doi:10.25334/Q4F72J
Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown. Forked version with all infectious disease graphs.
Faculty Mentoring Networks: A Model for Promoting Teaching Scholarship in Quantitative Biology Education
20 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Jeremy M Wojdak, Kristin Jenkins | doi:10.25334/Q4D96F
Presentation given at NABT 2016 on Faculty Mentoring Networks and teaching scholarship in quantitative biology education.
Faculty Mentoring Networks: A model for professional development in undergraduate quantitative biology education
20 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s): Melissa Aikens, Sam S Donovan, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Alison N Hale, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Kristin Jenkins, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4MX07
Presentation given at ESA 2016 on Faculty Mentoring Networks.
Facilitating the implementation and adaptation of data-centric teaching resources by closing gaps in the Open Education Resource (OER) lifecycle
18 Jul 2019 | Contributor(s): Kaitlin Bonner, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Kristine Grayson, Ben Wu, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco | doi:10.25334/MDQ6-HA47
Presentation on data-centric open educational resources given at the 2019 UBER-GRC
Diseasebots
12 Jun 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Skylar Hopkins | doi:10.25334/Q4GD8V
This module explores the effects of host density on contact rates and transmission of pathogens or mutualist symbionts using a hands-on simulation, a computer agent-based model in NetLogo, and an authentic ecological dataset.
DIGging Into Data and getting the credit
18 Jul 2019 | Contributor(s): Kaitlin Bonner, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Kristine Grayson, Ben Wu, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco | doi:10.25334/E04E-K962
Presentation on using and adapting OER data-centric resources
DIG into Data for the Biology Classroom
19 Jun 2018 | Contributor(s): Kaitlin Bonner, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Kristine Grayson, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco | doi:10.25334/Q4CH8Z
Session presentation on ecological data-centric teaching modules at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop
Confronting the challenges of bringing research data into undergraduate classrooms using online faculty mentoring networks
19 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Alison N Hale, Tom Langen, Teresa Mourad, Kristin Jenkins, Sam S Donovan | doi:10.25334/Q4B69X
Poster on using ecological research data in undergraduate courses
Closing the Gap in the Open Educational Resources (OER) Life Cycle for Using Research Data in the Ecology Classroom
30 Dec 2020 | Contributor(s): Kristine Grayson, Kaitlin Bonner, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Ben Wu, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco | doi:10.25334/YCJ8-W154
Poster presented at the 2018 meeting of the Ecological Society of America on gaps in the curriculum cycle for open educational resources (OER) and our work supporting sharing and adaptation of data-centric teaching resources for ecology classrooms
Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps
14 Aug 2017 | Contributor(s): Kristine Grayson, Kaitlin Bonner, Sam S Donovan, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Alison N Hale, Ben Wu | doi:10.25334/Q4D952
Organized Oral Session at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August 8th, 2017 Portland Oregon.
Answer Checking
03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4VH9P
This activity provides students with a set of strategies they can use to check their own answers in their biology and other courses. Students practice the answer checking strategies on a series of simple examples.