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Selected Articles on SoTL / DBER

The articles collected below are a very thin slice through the EER literature, and through literature/talks/movies about learning in general. The set below will grow. This is meant to be largely for whitepapers, position papers, or highly leveraged reports on how education might be improved.

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The URL links in the table below lead to online version of the paper where possible, and to the journal where the paper is published where the copyright is not freely available.


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2013 MESSAGING FOR ENGINEERING: FROM RESEARCH TO ACTION Committee on Implementing Engineering Messages National Academic of Engineering  Committee on Implementing Engineering Messages, National Academic of Engineering. Messaging for Engineering: From Research to Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2013.  Messaging for Engineering Messaging for Engineering supports efforts by the engineering community to communicate more effectively about the profession and those who practice it. This report builds on the 2008 NAE publication, Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering (CTC), which presented the results of a research-based effort to develop and test new, more effective messages about engineering.  
2012 Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering Susan R. Singer, Natalie R. Nielsen, and Heidi A. Schweingruber, Editors; Committee on the Status, Contributions, and Future Directions of Discipline-Based Education Research; Board on Science Education; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Research Council  DBER Committee on the Status Contributions Future Directions of Discipline-Based Education, Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering. Research Board on Science Education Division of Behavioral Social Sciences Education National Research Council, ed. R.S. Susan, R.N. Natalie, and A.S. Heidi, 2012: The National Academies Press. National Academies Press Webpage The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry. 
2011 Improving Undergraduate Learning, Finding and Policy Recommendations from the SSRC-CLA Longitudinal Project Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, and Esther Cho STEM education, 21 century, status in the US see the website with more details and publications: http://highered.ssrc.org/ Link to the paper. This is a widely circulated report of the Social Science Research Council.  
2010 Why don’t young people want to become engineers? Rational reasons for disappointing decisions Frank Stefan Becker career perspectives; engineering education; salaries; shortage of engineers; women in engineering European Journal of Engineering Education, vol 35(4), 349-366 link to journal article The quest for engineers during the past boom and predictions of future shortages have focused attention on the low enrollment figures in science and technology (S&T) subjects. This paper pursues a different approach. 
2009 Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education Leah Jamieson, Jack Lohmann engineering education, reforms on the ASEE website: http://www.asee.org link [This is a report presented at ASEE 2009.] 
2008 Linking evidence and promising practices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate education James Fairweather institutional change Fairweather, J., Linking evidence and promising practices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate education, in Board of Science Education, National Research Council, The National Academies, Washington, DC, 2008, The National Academies National Research Council Board of Science Education. link [Invited paper to the National Academies] 
2007 Failing the Future: Problems of persistence and retention in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors at Arizona State University Thompson, P.W., et al persistance in STEM Thompson, P.W., et al., Failing the Future: Problems of persistence and retention in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors at Arizona State University, in Tempe, AZ. Office of the Provost, 2007, Arizona State University. link [Report about STEM persistence in Arizona State] 
2006 Talk by Ken Robinson: "Schools Kill Creativity" Ken Robinson (TED Conf 2006) TED, Ken Robinson http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html TED Talk by Ted Robinson Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.  
2003 Why do we need reform, which, and how do we implement them?  John Bowden (RMIT University, Australia), STEM reform,  John Bowden (RMIT University, Australia), Why do we need reform, which, and how do we implement them? In Proceedings of the 3rd DCN Conference: If Reform of University Science Education is the Answer - What were the Questions? May, 2003. Center for Science Education, University of Copenhagen.  link to the paper Link is to the entire proceedings dealing with reform in STEM instruction. 
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