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Improving performance and retention in introductory biology with a utility-value intervention

Broadening participation

Canning EA, Harackiewicz JM, Priniski SJ.
GSID: 88HBcghYHjoJ
EA Canning, JM Harackiewicz, SJ Priniski… - Journal of …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org

One way to encourage performance and persistence in STEM fields is to have students write about the utility value (UV) or personal relevance of course topics to their life. This …

Affirming independence: Exploring mechanisms underlying a values affirmation intervention for first-generation students

first generation college student

Harackiewicz JM, Canning EA.
GSID: 323thLOFR7sJ
Y Tibbetts, JM Harackiewicz, EA Canning… - Journal of personality …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org

… first-generation college students, and found that the treatment effect on grades persisted 3 years later. First-generation students … points higher than first-generation students in the control …

STEM faculty who believe ability is fixed have larger racial achievement gaps and inspire less student motivation in their classes

discipline specific instruction (e.g., engineering curriculum, social science teachers, geology pedagogy)

Canning EA, Muenks K, Murphy MC.
GSID: jMOHxTZv_wgJ
EA Canning, K Muenks, DJ Green, MC Murphy - Science advances, 2019 - science.org

… to use unhelpful pedagogical practices, like encouraging students to drop difficult courses (eg, “… by professors’ age, tenure status, or years of college teaching experience (all Ps > 0.35). It could also be that fixed mindset beliefs might...

Feeling like an imposter: the effect of perceived classroom competition on the daily psychological experiences of first-generation college students

first generation college student

Canning EA, LaCosse J, Kroeper KM.
GSID: 6VUNkQoG4k8J
EA Canning, J LaCosse, KM Kroeper… - Social Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com

… students against each other. This emphasis on interpersonal competition could be especially detrimental for first-generation (FG) college students… continuing-generation peers. Thus, FG …

Closing the social class achievement gap for first-generation students in undergraduate biology

first generation college student

Harackiewicz JM, Canning EA.
GSID: s5xwVvaRMxUJ
JM Harackiewicz, EA Canning, Y Tibbetts… - Journal of …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org

… : first-generation college students. First-generation (FG) college students are those for whom neither parent received a 4-year college degree, and they constitute roughly 15–20% of …

Teach it, don't preach it: The differential effects of directly-communicated and self-generated utility–value information

Broadening participation

Canning EA, Harackiewicz JM.
GSID: WDLwMS2IsZ8J
EA Canning, JM Harackiewicz - Motivation science, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org

Social–psychological interventions in education have used a variety of “self-persuasion” or “saying-is-believing” techniques to encourage students to articulate key intervention …

Professors who signal a fixed mindset about ability undermine women's performance in STEM

Growth Mindset STEM Intervention

Canning EA, Williams HE.
GSID: 2ReeJPWBrxUJ
EA Canning, E Ozier, HE Williams… - Social …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com

… that signaled fixed or growth mindset faculty beliefs to students in a … The fixed and growth mindset cues reflect a high degree of … that the professor endorsed a fixed or growth mindset. …

A social-belonging intervention improves STEM outcomes for students who speak English as a second language

STEM and underrepresentation

Bowman NA, Canning EA, LaCosse J, Murphy MC.
GSID: TuPqHNCXN9wJ
J LaCosse, EA Canning, NA Bowman, MC Murphy… - Science …, 2020 - science.org

… the underrepresentation of certain minority groups in STEM … examined the underrepresentation of ESL students in STEM. … research on ESL students in STEM focuses on primary and …

Does my professor think my ability can change? Students' perceptions of their STEM professors' mindset beliefs predict their psychological vulnerability, engagement …

discipline specific instruction (e.g., engineering curriculum, social science teachers, geology pedagogy)

Canning EA, LaCosse J, Muenks K.
GSID: w0v4a8q0EFcJ
K Muenks, EA Canning, J LaCosse… - Journal of …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org

Two experiments and 2 field studies examine how college students' perceptions of their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professors' mindset beliefs …

Professors who signal a fixed mindset about ability undermine women's performance in STEM

NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics AND Program Evaluation

Canning EA, Williams HE.
GSID: nsUUU8V9iUoJ
EA Canning, E Ozier, HE Williams… - … Personality Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com

Two studies investigate how science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professors' fixed mindsets—the belief that intelligence is fixed and unchangeable—may induce stereotype threat and undermine women's performance. In an experiment (N= 217), we manipulated professors' mindset beliefs (fixed vs....

Life-Threatening Irinotecan-Induced Toxicity in an Adult Patient with Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma: The Role of a UGT1A1 Polymorphism.

Case reports in oncological medicine

Jannin A, Hennart B, Adenis A, Chauffert B, Penel N.
PMID: 29098099
Case Rep Oncol Med. 2017;2017:2683478. doi: 10.1155/2017/2683478. Epub 2017 Sep 26.

Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (AR) in adult patients is an exceptional malignancy. Management of AR is based on (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy combining ifosfamide, vincristine, and actinomycin D and local curative-intent surgery/radiotherapy. In cases of relapsing AR, the combination of temozolomide/irinotecan is regarded...

Closing the Social Class Achievement Gap for First-Generation Students in Undergraduate Biology.

Journal of educational psychology

Harackiewicz JM, Canning EA, Tibbetts Y, Giffen CJ, Blair SS, Rouse DI, Hyde JS.
PMID: 25049437
J Educ Psychol. 2014 May 01;106(2):375-389. doi: 10.1037/a0034679.

Many students start college intending to pursue a career in the biosciences, but too many abandon this goal because they struggle in introductory biology. Interventions have been developed to close achievement gaps for underrepresented minority students and women, but...

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