Michelle K Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 6674315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle K Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle K |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7721-7417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The importance of alignment: Only highly targeted assessment items detect pre-post learning from a short biology lesson
Assessment instruments are critical to detecting student learning from instruction and interventions. When selecting an instrument, instructors face tension between using a published assessment that has validity evidence but might not be fully aligned to an instructional period versus constructing an assessment that has not undergone validity optimization but is highly aligned to the instruction. In this study, we examined how alignment between l…
The Price of Beauty: Assessing an environmental education program about traded songbirds in Indonesia
How and why instructors use open access lessons
Introduction Open educational resources (OERs) provide instructors access to no-cost lesson materials they can incorporate into their courses. OER lessons can promote the use of innovative and evidence-based educational practices in biology education. Prior research suggests that teaching strategies are often implemented in different ways which can impact student learning. However, few studies have explored how OER lessons are modified to fit the…
Understanding how professional development opportunities affect open educational resource sharing
Background Open Educational Resources (OERs) help instructors create innovative lessons and foster cost-effective and equitable access to educational materials. As more instructors turn to OERs to enhance their courses, there is a growing demand for the creation of more lesson plans. Methods To increase the number of high-quality OERs in undergraduate biology and physics, the journal CourseSource introduced Writing Studios to assist educators in …
How Do Undergraduate Biology Instructors Engage With the Open Educational Resource Life Cycle
Open Educational Resources (OER) are widely used instructional materials that are freely available and promote equitable access. OER research at the undergraduate level largely focuses on measuring student experiences with using the low cost resources, and instructor awareness of resources and perceived barriers to use. Little is known about how instructors work with materials based on their unique teaching context. To explore how instructors eng…
What Questions Are on the Minds of STEM Undergraduate Students and How Can They Be Addressed
Addressing common student questions in introductory STEM courses early in the term is one way that instructors can ensure that their students have all been presented with information about how to succeed in their courses. However, categorizing student questions and identifying evidence-based resources to address student questions takes time, and instructors may not be able to easily collect and respond to student questions at the beginning of eve…
Anatomy of STEM teaching in North American universities
Lecture is prominent, but practices vary
Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics
Significance The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has called for a 33% increase in the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) bachelor’s degrees completed per year and recommended adoption of empirically validated teaching practices as critical to achieving that goal. The studies analyzed here document that active learning leads to increases in examination performance that would raise average g…
Fiction and the nation: The construction of Canadian identity in Chatelaine and Canadian Home Journal during the 1930s and 1940s
This article presents original research on the mainstream Anglophone Canadian magazines Chatelaine and the Canadian Home Journal and the way in which they constructed a particular Canadian identity as a result of their own need to market themselves as distinct from American magazines. This identity was necessarily inflected by the expectation that the magazines' audience consisted of the white, middle-class consumers to whom the magazines' advert…
Black Identity: Response to Our Reviewers
Fiction and the nation: The construction of Canadian identity in Chatelaine and Canadian Home Journal during the 1930s and 1940s
This article presents original research on the mainstream Anglophone Canadian magazines Chatelaine and the Canadian Home Journal and the way in which they constructed a particular Canadian identity as a result of their own need to market themselves as distinct from American magazines. This identity was necessarily inflected by the expectation that the magazines' audience consisted of the white, middle-class consumers to whom the magazines' advert…
Black Identity: Response to Our Reviewers
Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics
Significance The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has called for a 33% increase in the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) bachelor’s degrees completed per year and recommended adoption of empirically validated teaching practices as critical to achieving that goal. The studies analyzed here document that active learning leads to increases in examination performance that would raise average g…
Fiction and the nation: The construction of Canadian identity in Chatelaine and Canadian Home Journal during the 1930s and 1940s
This article presents original research on the mainstream Anglophone Canadian magazines Chatelaine and the Canadian Home Journal and the way in which they constructed a particular Canadian identity as a result of their own need to market themselves as distinct from American magazines. This identity was necessarily inflected by the expectation that the magazines' audience consisted of the white, middle-class consumers to whom the magazines' advert…
Anatomy of STEM teaching in North American universities
Lecture is prominent, but practices vary
What Questions Are on the Minds of STEM Undergraduate Students and How Can They Be Addressed
Addressing common student questions in introductory STEM courses early in the term is one way that instructors can ensure that their students have all been presented with information about how to succeed in their courses. However, categorizing student questions and identifying evidence-based resources to address student questions takes time, and instructors may not be able to easily collect and respond to student questions at the beginning of eve…
How Do Undergraduate Biology Instructors Engage With the Open Educational Resource Life Cycle
Open Educational Resources (OER) are widely used instructional materials that are freely available and promote equitable access. OER research at the undergraduate level largely focuses on measuring student experiences with using the low cost resources, and instructor awareness of resources and perceived barriers to use. Little is known about how instructors work with materials based on their unique teaching context. To explore how instructors eng…
How and why instructors use open access lessons
Introduction Open educational resources (OERs) provide instructors access to no-cost lesson materials they can incorporate into their courses. OER lessons can promote the use of innovative and evidence-based educational practices in biology education. Prior research suggests that teaching strategies are often implemented in different ways which can impact student learning. However, few studies have explored how OER lessons are modified to fit the…
Understanding how professional development opportunities affect open educational resource sharing
Background Open Educational Resources (OERs) help instructors create innovative lessons and foster cost-effective and equitable access to educational materials. As more instructors turn to OERs to enhance their courses, there is a growing demand for the creation of more lesson plans. Methods To increase the number of high-quality OERs in undergraduate biology and physics, the journal CourseSource introduced Writing Studios to assist educators in …
The Price of Beauty: Assessing an environmental education program about traded songbirds in Indonesia
The importance of alignment: Only highly targeted assessment items detect pre-post learning from a short biology lesson
Assessment instruments are critical to detecting student learning from instruction and interventions. When selecting an instrument, instructors face tension between using a published assessment that has validity evidence but might not be fully aligned to an instructional period versus constructing an assessment that has not undergone validity optimization but is highly aligned to the instruction. In this study, we examined how alignment between l…
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Innovative Teaching Methods (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Open Education and E-Learning (3 works) · Open Educational Resources (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)