Spartan SELC demonstration

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Here is a recording of the Spartan SELC’s demonstration at the 2024 Spring Conference on Teaching & Learning. “The Spartan SELC: Demonstrating a new resource for data-driven equity in introductory STEM courses” was presented on April 19th by members of the MSU STEM Equity Learning Community. The SELC project is a multi-institiution, NSF-funded initiative of the SEISMIC Collaboration. We are excited to move into the next phase of this work, which involved thoughtfully creating opportunities and/or trainings for educators and units to access and learn from these data visualizations of equity measures in MSU courses.

The slides from this presentation can be accessed here.

For further reading, see this exploration of the impact of systemic advantages on STEM grades and grade anomalies at multiple institutions in this SEISMIC paper:

Castle, S.D., Byrd, W.C., Koester, B.P. et al. Systemic advantage has a meaningful relationship with grade outcomes in students’ early STEM courses at six research universities. IJ STEM Ed 11, 14 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-024-00474-7

If you have any questions or would like to learn more, please reach out to Ellie Louson lousonel@msu.edu in the CTLI.