Team Member Evaluation Rubric

We developed these team member evaluations for a summer research program where we had teams of mathematicians and biologists.  I'm not sure they were that useful after the research was done, but it might be more useful as a way to discuss what we expect from our team members.

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Universal Design for Learning Guidelines

The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

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Universal Design for Learning: Theory & Practice

Create a free account at CAST to access this book, Universal Design for Learning: Theory & Practice

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Universal Design for Learning: Theory & Practice

Create a free account at CAST to access this book, Universal Design for Learning: Theory & Practice

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Universal Design for Learning Guidelines

The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

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Accessibility Toolkit

The goal of the Accessibility Toolkit – 2nd Edition is to provide resources for each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open textbook—one that is free and accessible for all students.

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Bodine's Math Modeling & Scientific Writing Course

Syllabus and course assignments for a course in math modeling & scientific writing

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Writing in mathematical modeling course

PRIMUS article - PRIMUS had a special issue on writing in mathematics and this is one on mathematical modeling in particular.

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Crash Course in Basic Stats via R (DataCamp)

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Writing a scienitific paper

Elsevier article on writing a scientific paper

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Peer-review in applied mathematics writing

This is a collaboration in calculus II with the writing director on best practices in peer-review.   This link is to the version on arxiv, but the full is published in PRIMUS.

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Writing & Presentation Tips

A general paper with some tips and great references. 

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Tips for conducting a literature search

Our MURAL folks, Chad Topaz and May Mei, wrote this AMS blog, inspired by the AALAC meeting!

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XKCD - simple writer

Only allows you to use the most common 1000 words in the English language.  

Educational use here - Introducing Students to the Challenges of Communicating Science by Using a Tool That Employs Only the 1,000 Most Commonly Used Words

 

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DataCamp Course: Reporting with R Markdown

Course Description

Learn how to write a data report quickly and effectively with the R Markdown package, and share your results with your friends, colleagues or the rest of the world. Learn how you can author your own R Markdown reports, and how to automate the reporting process so that you have your own reproducible reports. By the end of the interactive data analysis reporting tutorial, you will be able to generate reports straight from your R code, documenting your work — and its results — as an HTML, pdf, slideshow or Microsoft Word document.

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BioSkills Guide

Nationally validated set of core competency learning outcomes. We are in the process of designing a user-friendly "brochure" and writing up the development process for publication. Links to both will be uploaded when available. While the Guide is still pre-publication, please include the following link when sharing: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1305/1.

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Resources for emergency online teaching

An editable Google Doc with community resources for teaching online.

List of sections:

  • Teaching writing in a time of quick transition

  • General shifting-quickly-online resources 

  • Affective issues, for faculty and students

  • Accessibility  (including surveys you can copy to learn about your students’ tech/materials access)

  • General online teaching resources

  • Disciplinary resources

  • Transitioning Service-Learning Courses

  • Resources aimed at students

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Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally

TIEE Module- How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally? This is an adaptation of the module that includes statistical testing and links sections to a lab report writing.

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Reflective Writing Tools: Building Skills and Habits of Thinking in Becoming a Scientist

A good resource on an often-overlooked way to build students' writing skills in a low-stakes way.

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Learning from the Trees: Using Project Budburst to Enhance Data Literacy and Scientific Writing Skills in an Introductory Biology Laboratory During Remote Learning

Lots of ways to incorporate writing into courses.

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