STEM Climate Survey Developed Through Student-Faculty Collaboration

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Abstract

This paper presents a Likert scale survey tool for parsing undergraduate STEM environments at institutions of higher learning. Our tool was designed collaboratively -- by students, STEM professors and a postdoctoral teaching fellow. Employing a collaborative method during survey design allowed us to compose a survey that: (1) probes many more facets of undergraduate STEM climate than do past survey tools; and (2) is designed for use by STEM professors and instructors, non-specialists in educational research. Finally, we present the data from the first administration of the survey at our institution, and thereby demonstrate one way to approach data analysis.

Authors

• Claudia De Grandi, University of Utah

• Zachary B Smithline, Yale University

• Philip M. Reeves, Yale University

• Laura G Goetz, Yale University

• Nathaniel Barbour, Yale University

• Erika Hairston, Yale University

• Joyce Guo, Yale University

• Fadeke Muraina, Yale University

• Joel Bervell, Yale University

• Lauren M Chambers, Yale University

• Helen Caines, Yale University

• Andrew D Miranker, Yale University

• Simon G.J. Mochrie, Yale University