Episode 30. Inclusive Excellence: Content Is Not Enough! with Oscar Fernandez
Our current students in higher education are more diverse than ever before by a variety of demographic measures. Unfortunately, many of these demographics groups perform less well than the majority as measured by average GPA and graduation rate. In this episode we talk with Dr. Oscar Fernandez, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Wellesley College about Inclusive Excellence, an effort to create a community of faculty, staff, and students who are engaged in the continuing process of increasing institutional capacity for the inclusion of all students and supporting students efforts to excel.
Episode 22: Connecting Classroom Inequities to Student Performance: EQUIP, a Tool for All? with Daniel Reinholz
As researchers study the success of students in active classrooms, they expose new questions to ask, they generate new data to analyze. These data put classrooms implementing active learning practices under the microscope. In looking closely at the details of implementation, researchers are now uncovering evidence of practices resulting in inequities, in some and perhaps most active learning environments. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Daniel Reinholz about his classroom observational analytical tool, EQUIP, and discuss how Daniel and his co-authors have used this tool to identify inequities in classrooms, inequities that may underlie differences in student performance. Fixing these inequities may not be hard, but one has to identify the problem first. EQUIP may be one tool we all need.