Discipline-based education research (DBER), focuses on higher education science classes
Current Projects:
1) Using Concept Inventories to assess student learning and misconceptions in order to alter curricula at the program and class levels.
2) Implementation and impact of Community Engaged Learning in science curricula.
3) Equitable grading strategies in large-enrollment science courses.
4) Development of fundamental learning outcomes and concept inventories to help and better understand the teaching of immunology. Immunoreach Collaboration
5) The influence of science experiences and science communication on the trust of scientific information and personal decision-making related to scientific knowledge.
6) Action Research Projects as applied to current course improvement.