BER lab heads to SABER 2016!

The Biology Education Research Lab heads to Minneapolis, MN to participate in SABER 2016. The lab presented three talks and five posters!

Sara gave a plenary talk entitled "Opportunities and tension points associated with course-based undergraduate research experiences."

Katey presented a talk entitled "What's in a name? The importance of student perceptions of an instructor knowing their name in a high enrollment biology classroom" and a talk entitled "A bridge to active learning: A summer bridge program helps students to maximize their active learning experiences and think about equity in groupwork."

Liz presented a poster "The impact of a short evolution module on students' perceived conflict between religion and evolution."

Christian presented a poster "GenBio-MAPS: A programmatic assessment to measure student understanding of core biology concepts across a general biology curriculum."

Three undergraduates in the lab presented posters:

Jasmine: "How identity, biology content, and instructional practices impact religious students’ sense of belonging in the biology classroom."

Austin: "Exploring instructor rationale for designing classroom assessments."

Michael: "Using a lens of Expectancy Value Theory to explore student resistance to active learning."

Our work got noticed at SABER! Tweets about the work of Sara, Katey, and Liz made up 12% of tweets with the #saber16 hashtag. For more information about SABER 2016, click here.