The Case Lab
The Case Lab
Our research focuses on how ungrading can shift students’ approach to learning and broaden participation in upper-level STEM courses. Scholarly interests include using machine learning, alternative grading, and web applications to enhance biomedical education.
Our research focuses on how ungrading can shift students’ approach to learning and broaden participation in upper-level STEM courses. Scholarly interests include using machine learning, alternative grading, and web applications to enhance biomedical education.
Active Projects
Active Projects
Project 1: Exploring how ungrading influences the way in which students approach learning in an upper-level biomedical science course, focusing on student motivation, reflective thinking, and preparatory behaviours.
Project 1: Exploring how ungrading influences the way in which students approach learning in an upper-level biomedical science course, focusing on student motivation, reflective thinking, and preparatory behaviours.
Project 2: Exploring the effectiveness of using AI (personalised GPTs) to support faculty efforts in an ungraded course.
Project 2: Exploring the effectiveness of using AI (personalised GPTs) to support faculty efforts in an ungraded course.
Project 3: Creation of an interactive prosection laboratory program to enhance student engagement and self-directed behaviours in medical and allied health gross anatomy education.
Project 3: Creation of an interactive prosection laboratory program to enhance student engagement and self-directed behaviours in medical and allied health gross anatomy education.
Project 4: Testing the practicality and effectiveness of formaldehyde-free cadaver fixation methods in a veterinary medicine curriculum.
Project 4: Testing the practicality and effectiveness of formaldehyde-free cadaver fixation methods in a veterinary medicine curriculum.
Active Funding
Active Funding
2024 TILT Faculty Research Fellowship, The Institute for Teaching & Learning (TILT), Colorado State University
2024 TILT Faculty Research Fellowship, The Institute for Teaching & Learning (TILT), Colorado State University
2024 Instructional Innovation/Pedagogical Research Grant, CVMBS College Research Council, Colorado State University
2024 Instructional Innovation/Pedagogical Research Grant, CVMBS College Research Council, Colorado State University