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Do Small Classes in Higher Education Reduce Performance Gaps in STEM? 

Ballen, Cissy; Aguillon, Stefanie; Brunelli, Rebecca; Drake, Abby Grace; Wassenberg, Deena; Weiss, Stacey; Zamudio, Kelly; Cotner, Sehoya (2019-07-11)
Performance gaps in science are well documented, and an examination of underlying mechanisms that lead to underperformance and attrition of women and underrepresented minorities (URM) may offer highly targeted means to ...

Enhancing Diversity in Undergraduate Science: Self-Efficacy Drives Performance Gains with Active Learning 

Ballen, Cissy J.; Wieman, Carl; Salehi, Shima; Searle, Jeremy B.; Zamudio, Kelly R.; 0000-0002-4693-6117 (2019-08-07)
Efforts to retain underrepresented minority (URM) students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have shown only limited success in higher education, due in part to a persistent achievement gap between ...