STS: Talk Matters: Investigating the Nature of Non-Content Classroom Language Instructor Talk that May Mediate Student Inclusion, Engagement, and Learning

Through the language they use, instructors create classroom environments that have the potential to impact learning by affecting student motivation, resistance, belonging, and self-efficacy. However, despite the critical importance of instructor language to the student experience, little research has investigated what instructors are saying in undergraduate classrooms.

STS: Exploring Inclusive Curricula in the College Classroom: Scientist Spotlight Homework Assignments

From watching television shows and movies to their experiences in college classes themselves, students recurrently encounter stereotypes that, more often than not, convey a narrow view of who participates in our fields of study. We might wonder, then; what are the impacts of these messages on students and what, if anything, might faculty do in response to this messaging?

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