OPA Program

Dr. Jody Puglisi, Professor of Structural Biology

This is part 1 or a 2-part series. Part 2 is the following Friday, Janaury 19, same time and location.

Starting up your first lab can be an overwhelming project. This lecture focuses on equipment, space and other resources included in startup packages, setting up your laboratory, recruitment, preparing for your first grant submission and budgeting.

**PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME out of respect for the speaker.**

Topic: Noncontent Instructor Speak: The Role of Language and Biases

Required Reading:

Seidel et al. "Beyond the Biology: A Systematic Investigation of Noncontent Instructor Talk in an Introductory Biology Course". CBE—Life Sciences Education. 14 (4). (2015). 1-12. -- LINK

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Topic: Succeeding in College as a First-Gen Student

Required Reading:

Stephens NM et al. “Closing the Social-Class Achievement Gap: A Difference-Education Intervention Improves First-Generation Students’ Academic Performance and All Student’ College Transition.” Psychological Science. (2014) 943-953. -- LINK

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Topic: Student Evaluations of Teaching

Required Reading:

Beleche T. et al. “Do course evaluations truly reflect students learning? Evidence from an objectively graded post-test." Economics of Education Review. 31. (2012) 709-719. -- LINK

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Topic: Wise Interventions to Narrow Achievement Gaps in Education

Required Reading:

Walton, Gregory M & Cohen, Geoffrey L. "A brief social-belonging intervention improves academic and health outcomes of minority students." Science 331.6023 (2011): 1447-1451. -- LINK

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Topic: Of open books and cheat sheets: How evaluation strategies can promote learning?

Required Readings:

Gharib, A., Phillips, W., & Mathew, N. (2012). Cheat sheet or open-book? A comparison of the effects of exam types on performance, retention, and anxiety. Psychology Research, 2(8), 469. -- LINK

Recommended Readings:

Topic: Rethinking Student Participation

Required Reading:

Wright, Jessey. 2015. Course Participation: Defining and Evaluating Student Participation. AAPT Studies in Pedagogy. DOI: 10.5840/aaptstudies201510115. Entire article. -- LINK

Required Assignment:

Topic: Physical Presence, Charisma, and Social Interactions in Teaching and Learning

Readings: Osterberg, L., Swigris, R., Weil, A., & Branch, W. T. (2015). The highly influential teacher: Recognising our unsung heroes. Medical education, 49(11), 1117-1123. -- LINK

Guest Speaker(s): Risa Wechsler, Assistant Professor, Physics and Ashby Morrison, Assistant Professor, Biology

Guest Speaker(s): Lauren Tompkins, Professor, Physics Department and Lisa Hwang, Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Department