After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you know that we often return to the problem of how teaching is evaluated. It comes up when professors talk about the incentives (or lack thereof) ...

While professors go through practice problems in class, some students do more than jot down the answers. These students — the Sheridan Center’s Problem-Solving Fellows — evaluate how the professors ...

The Alliance for Better College Teaching intends to bring energy, and resources, to the longstanding challenge of elevating ...

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching, one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work ...

Suggested Citation: "3 Understanding Teaching,Learning, and Equity." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Transforming Undergraduate STEM ...