Teaching Undergraduate Science: A Guide to Overcoming Obstacles to Student Learning - Softcover

Hodges, Linda C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032818964 ISBN 13: 9781032818962

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

Teaching Undergraduate Science: A Guide to Overcoming Obstacles to Student Learning offers college and university instructors evidence-based strategies to help students learn those specific skills and habits of mind necessary for succeeding in STEM fields.

Updated and expanded from the first edition, this text elaborates on critical factors in cultivating student success, including how to engender a sense of belonging and agency in STEM, engage students in their learning, and foster deliberate practice. Hodges provides frank guidance on the relative effort and outcomes for each strategy, allowing instructors to choose techniques best suited to their aims and contexts. While focusing primarily on face-to-face classes, this resource also addresses how to work between online resources and physical spaces. Hodges’ years of experience working as and with STEM faculty provides a personal connection to the research shared, producing an accessible, practical, and enjoyable read.

About this title

About the Author

Linda C. Hodges is Emerita Director of the Faculty Development Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA; past Director of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University, USA; and a former tenured chemistry professor. She publishes widely on research in teaching and learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032818964
• ISBN 13: 9781032818962
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 252