FAST Projects

Each FAST Fellow plans and conducts a teaching-as-research project in collaboration with a mentor or mentors to investigate how to implement various teaching techniques, and assess their effectiveness, to enhance student learning. Projects FAST Fellows have developed include:

  • Writing to Learn Using Journals
  • Improving Critical Thinking Skills of Undergraduates Health Science Students with
  • Case Studies
  • Investigating the Influence of Teaching Pedagogies on Fourth Grade Students' Action
  • Competence Towards the Great Lakes
  • Evaluating the Systems Thinking Pedagogy Portfolio
  • Relevance as a Motivational Factor
  • Looking at Calculus Students' Understanding From the Inside-out: The Relationship Between the Chain Rule and Function Composition Publication: Horvath, A. (2008). Looking at calculus students' understanding from the inside- out: The relationship between the chain rule and function composition. In proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, San Diego, CA, Feb 29, 2008.
  • Lecture and Lab in a Biology Course for Non-Majors: Should the two go hand in hand?
  • Scientific Reasoning Ability of Cantho University Students
  • Assessment of a New Evaluation Method for CSS 480: Soil Fertility and Management
  • Biochemistry and Dietetics: Looking for Alignment
  • Inspiration Strategies in College Engineering Teaching
  • Determining the Status of Graduate Teaching Assistant Preparation as a Basis for a New Model of Professional Development
  • Students’ Understanding of the Derivative
  • Enhancing Students’ Understanding of Propagation in Horticulture
  • Opinions About Climate Change Among Non-Science Majors and Influence of Passive and Active Learning Strategies
  • Utilizing an Informal Learning Experience to Improve Students Understanding of the Evolutionary Concept of Variation
  • Assessment Tools and Role of Autoethnography
  • Identifying Successful Technologies for Teaching Electromagnetics to Undergraduates
  • Using a Case Study in an Engineering Lab Situation
  • Examining Variation in the Retention of Experiential Knowledge Between Indoor and Outdoor Classrooms in Wildlife Science
  • Using Bloom's Taxonomy for Self-Guided Study
  • The Plant Circadian Clock: An Ecology-Focused Module for Gene Regulation
  • Assessing Students' Attitudes Towards Environmental Issues After Completing a Cascading Food-Web Case Study to Understand Complex Ecological Interactions
  • How do outdoor and nature-based experiences differ between science majors and non-majors?
  • Field Trips Through the Food System: Experiential Environmental Learning in Higher Education
  • Genetics in the Green house: Using Active Learning to Improve student Performance in Plant Genetics
  • Effects of Cooperative Learning on Information Assimilation and Critical Thinking