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The Center for Advancing Scholarship to Transform Learning is a network of faculty, projects and programs engaged in scholarship surrounding STEM education.

Led by co-directors Dina Newman and Ben Zwickl, CASTLE is comprised of STEM faculty, research associates, instructional service professionals, and communication experts. Together they form a network of skilled individuals committed to the Center’s mission of advancing STEM teaching, learning and evaluation. Members work together on research and programs engaged in scholarship of pedagogy, facilitating dialog, encouraging collaborative opportunities in evidence-based practices, conducting discipline-based education research and establishing methods of assessment and evaluation.

Research

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Research Groups

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Journal Club

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Seminar Speaker Series

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Research Experience for Undergraduates

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RIT PER researchers, Sachmpazidi and Verostek, publish new article!

RIT PER researchers, Sachmpazidi and Verostek, publish new article in the Physical Review Physics Education Research Journal on the psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics.

Dr. Sachmpazidi delivered a Physics Colloquium at Cornell University

Dr. Sachmpazidi delivered a Physics Colloquium at Cornell University about Data-Informed Departmental Change in Physics Education. She discussed findings from two of her projects on 1) physics graduate education and 2) effective team-based approaches for departmental change.

Publication on building advanced computational literacy in physics

Karl Henrik Fredly, a graduate student at the University of Oslo, was co-supervised by Ben Zwickl and Tor Ole Odden on a project on how graduate students develop advanced computational literacy, published in Physical Review PER.

 Undergraduate Genetics Education Network 6th Annual Conference

CASTLE Director Dina Newman leads the organizing committee for UGN. This year's conference was a big success, with over 400 registrants. Her session on the topic of teaching the genetics of human sex determination received rave reviews.