Science Education doctoral candidate Amreen Nasim Thompson has been selected to be a scholar-in-residence this summer with the Rochester Institute of Technology’s IMPRESS (INTEGRATING METACOGNITIVE PRACTICES AND RESEARCH TO ENSURE STUDENT SUCCESS) program. This experience, “fosters the development of qualitative research methodology, including acquiring and analyzing video data as well as preparing manuscripts for publication. Participants will study undergraduate students in project IMPRESS, an existing two-week lab experience for first-generation and deaf/hard-of- hearing STEM majors that centers on reflective, metacognitive scientific practice.”
RIT has a strong tradition of studying metacognition in undergraduate STEM majors, and a well-established Learning Assistant (LA) program in which this work will be partly based. This competitive selection is a testimony to Amreen’s developing expertise in the field of undergraduate STEM education and research on the Learning Assistant model.
https://www.rit.edu/science/impress (https://www.rit.edu/science/impress)