On August 6, 2020, Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, Robin Côté, announced the STEM Educational Excellence Fellows for AY 20-21. In this inaugural year of the STEM EDX program in CSM, these twelve faculty members (two per department in the college) formed a professional learning community focused on the inquiry: How to assess students in STEM courses during remote instruction while attending to the goal of creating equity. The resources created by the STEM EDX Fellows are intended for ongoing use, not only for remote learning but also as we transition to a new normal in which lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the underlying pandemics of racism and economic disparity that it exposed, can be put to use in creating greater equity toward our goal of becoming an anti-racist and health-promoting university.
Equity-Focused Alternative Assessment Resources
- Mastery- and standards-based grading (Gabriel Cunningham, Mathematics)
- Kitchen science experiments in “Squishy Physics” (Mohamed Amine Gharbi, Physics)
- Warmup questions for starting class discussion and just-in-time teaching (Olga Goulko, Physics)
- More than one way to do it (Daniel Haehn, Computer Science)
- Pamphlet and structured presentation about a disease-microbe combination (Karla Schallies, Biology)
- See yourself as a practitioner: Utility value assignments (Hannah Sevian, Chemistry)
AY 20-21 STEM EDX Fellows
Gabe Cunningham, Lecturer, Mathematics
Mohamed Gharbi, Assistant Professor, Physics
Olga Goulko, Assistant Professor, Physics
Kim Hamad-Schifferli, Associate Professor, Engineering
Daniel Haehn, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Swami Iyer, Lecturer, Computer Science
KC Kerby-Patel, Assistant Professor, Engineering
Daniel Pomerleano, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Neil Reilly, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Karla Schallies, Lecturer, Biology
Hannah Sevian, Professor, Chemistry
Brian White, Associate Professor, Biology
