Minority student and teaching assistant interactions in STEM
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This article explored minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the sciences and STEM ( introductory chemistry labs) at a large public university and found evidence that underrepresented minority students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2021-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Underrepresented Minority & Active learning.read more
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The role of the teaching assistant: Female role models in the classroom
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TL;DR: The authors used a dataset of first-year engineering students from a selective research-intensive public university to examine the impact of same-gender teaching assistants on course grades and major field choice.
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Reflections on race, ethnicity, and NIH research awards
TL;DR: The story of how my research interests and professional networks provided the opportunity to do this important work is shared and the case for improved data and mentoring to address race and ethnic disparities in NIH funding is made.
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Racial and Gender Achievement Gaps in an Economics Classroom
TL;DR: This paper found that female URM students performed significantly worse than female non-URM students, even after controlling for differences in prior preparation, and found that the theory of stereotype threat most consistently explains their results.
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Underrepresented Minority Students in College: The Role of Classmates
TL;DR: The authors found that when minority students are exposed to a greater share of same-race classmates, they were more likely to complete the class with a pass and are more likely enroll in a same-subject course the subsequent term.
Affirmative Action, Faculty Productivity and Caste Interactions: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India
TL;DR: In this paper , the relative productivity of workers benefiting from an aggressive affirmative action policy in a setting where hiring constraints are especially likely to bind was studied and no evidence that reservation category faculty provided lower quality instruction.
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