Welcome to the Catalyst Center!
The Catalyst Center for the Advancement of Research in Teaching and Learning Math and Science brings together science and math education experts from the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and College of Education. Below is information on recent news, featured Catalyst member projects, and upcoming events of interest to Catalyst members and the broader campus community.
If you are interested in learning more about Catalyst, please contact us at catalyst@fullerton.edu.
RECENT NEWS
April 2024: NSM faculty come together to discuss thet Equitable Pedagogy Modules and support each others' in modifying their syllabi to be more equitable.
October 2023: Dr. Cassandra Paul from SJSU was our 2023-2024 Catalyst Speaker with her talk on "Equitable Grading Research & Practice". Read more about Dr. Paul's research.
January 2023: Associate Professor of Physics and incoming director of the Catalyst Center published a paper in the American Journal of Physics on how to use active learning techniques in teaching quantum mechanics.
August 2021: Professor Joel K. Abraham, director of the Catalyst Center, is co-PI on a 1.5 million dollar NSF IUSE proposal to develop new approaches to teaching graph construction skills to introductory biology students.
NSM Faculty Community: Equitable Pedagogy Module
This past year, the FDC developed two Equitable Pedagogy Modules: EMP2a and EMP2b. The final module of EPM2b is a “syllabus audit,” where faculty are tasked with thinking about how their syllabus demonstrates equitable pedagogy and how we might make improvements.
This semester, a group of NSM faculty came together to discuss our syllabi and support each other’s learning. We shared our syllabi and gave each other feedback and ideas. We discussed some of the difficulties specific to the sciences and shared how successful different instructional strategies have been in our courses.
