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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 …

Teachers' attitudes about language diversity

classroom instruction

Manning ML.
GSID: mG0h2Icpjh4J
DA Byrnes, G Kiger, ML Manning - Teaching and teacher education, 1997 - Elsevier

This paper addresses regular-classroom teachers' attitudes toward language diversity and linguistically diverse students. We examined salient contextual variables hypothesized in the …

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...

Teaching in the middle school

middle school

Manning ML.
GSID: Wlf7KLs-UogJ
ML Manning, KT Bucher - 2012 - www-fp.pearsonhighered.com

… sufficient to change middle schools. We believe that classroom teachers will be the key reformers of middle school education and that the ultimate success of middle school reforms will …

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....

Monitoring the path of nursing.

The Canadian nurse

Banning JA.
PMID: 1739937
Can Nurse. 1992 Feb;88(2):3.

No abstract available.

LncRNA-Six1 Encodes a Micropeptide to Activate .

Frontiers in physiology

Cai B, Li Z, Ma M, Wang Z, Han P, Abdalla BA, Nie Q, Zhang X.
PMID: 28473774
Front Physiol. 2017 Apr 20;8:230. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00230. eCollection 2017.

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in epigenetic regulation of skeletal muscle development. In our previous RNA-seq study (accession number GSE58755), we found that lncRNA-Six1 is an lncRNA that is differentially expressed between White Recessive Rock (WRR) and...

Systematically Altering Bacterial SOS Activity under Stress Reveals Therapeutic Strategies for Potentiating Antibiotics.

mSphere

Mo CY, Manning SA, Roggiani M, Culyba MJ, Samuels AN, Sniegowski PD, Goulian M, Kohli RM.
PMID: 27536734
mSphere. 2016 Aug 10;1(4). doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00163-16. eCollection 2016.

The bacterial SOS response is a DNA damage repair network that is strongly implicated in both survival and acquired drug resistance under antimicrobial stress. The two SOS regulators, LexA and RecA, have therefore emerged as potential targets for adjuvant...

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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