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O'Brien, Laurie T.; Bart, Henry L.; Garcia, Donna M. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2020
African Americans and other ethnic minorities are severely underrepresented in both graduate education and among the professoriate in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB). In the present research, we take a social psychological approach to studying inclusion by examining interrelationships among challenges to inclusion, the sense of belonging,…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation, College Faculty, Ecology
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Harvey, Alex – European Journal of Physics, 2009
The recently observed acceleration of the expansion of the universe is a topic of intense interest. The favoured causes are the "cosmological constant" or "dark energy". The former, which appears in the Einstein equations as the term [lambda]g[subscript [mu]v], provides an extremely simple, well-defined mechanism for the acceleration. However,…
Descriptors: Energy, Science Instruction, Physics, Equations (Mathematics)
Randle, David Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mixed-methods study examined the interactions and learning outcomes of science teachers in an online graduate-level course on evolutionary biology intended to improve their content knowledge and science lesson planning. Discussion posts made by the teachers in this seven-week course were analyzed for cognitive presence using the Community of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Science Teachers, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship