Author: sza009

research paper

Co-operative Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics and Science Education: A Scoping Review

Abstract To cope  with an unpredictable future, higher education in mathematics and science (MS) needs to educate a knowledgeable and skilled workforce. Co-operative learning (CL) is a teaching method associated with increased academic achievement and development of generic skills. Thus, the purposes of this scoping review are to assess the...

posters at the Heathland Center

Student Posters on Display at the Heathland Centre at Lygra

Biology students make posters as part of the assessment in various courses at the Department of biological Sciences. The students present at the bi-annual student poster session, and we make the posters available at the bioPITCH webpage. We aim towards making student course products real life products, something that they...

Hot off the presses!

Hot off the presses!

In a recent article published in the Nordic Journal of STEM Education, Yael Harlap (UPED), Christian Jorgensen (BIO), and Sehoya Cotner (BIO, bioCEED) discuss evidence-based assessment strategies—from the simple to the more complex. Although this work was initially written in response to a former, stricter version of the two-sensor law...

coding meeting

American invasion

Thanks to the support of iEarth, bioCEED, and HK-Dir INTPART funds, bioCEED and iEarth collaborated to host three visiting researchers from the US in July and August. Alyssa Olson (University of Minnesota) visited for over a month and took part in the sixth course offering of the Plant Functional Traits...

woman giving presentation

Mini symposium in Bergen

BioCEED, in collaboration with iEarth, hosted a mini-symposium highlighting STEM Education Research, at UiB and in a few cases, more broadly. Invited speakers included bioCEED PhD candidate Anja Møgelvang Jacobsen, who spoke about her recent work looking at the impact of a digital cooperative-learning intervention on student psycho-social outcomes (e.g.,...