Advancing Teaching Through Research
The TLC serves as a hub for research on teaching and learning at UC Santa Cruz. We highlight innovative scholarship in higher-education teaching and learning conducted by UCSC faculty, students, and staff, and we also collaborate with campus partners on research connected to this work.
On this page, you’ll find a collection of UCSC-authored publications related to teaching and learning. Use the search and filter options on the left to browse by keyword or topic.
If you are a member of the UCSC community and would like your research featured here, please let us know.
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‘Being a team of five strong women… we had to make an impression:’ The College Math Academy as an intervention into mathematics education
Nandini Bhattacharya, Regina D. Langhout, S. Sylvane Vaccarino-Ruiz, Natalya Jackson, Maya Woolfe, Wendy Matta, Britney Zuniga, Zella Rowe, & Leilani Gibo
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CURE-ating the Substrate Scope and Functional Residues of Nonheme Iron(II) α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Hydroxylase BesE
Austin R. Hopiavuori, Beau S. Andre, Emely D. Avalos, Surina L. Beal, George R. Beck, Charles J. Choi, Elizabeth M. Dolzhansky, Michelle X. Du, Isabella S. Gallardo, Cyrus J. Ghorbani, Kyle M. Hinaga, Analynn T. Nguyen, Edward H. T. Pham, and Shaun M. K. McKinnie*
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Engaging in Science Practices in Classrooms Predicts Increases in Undergraduates’ STEM Motivation, Identity, and Achievement
Christine R. Starr, Lisa Hunter, Robin Dunkin, Susanna Honig, Rafael Palomino, & Campbell Leaper
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Growth messages increase help-seeking and performance for women in STEM
Rebecca Covarrubias, Giselle Laiduc, & Ibette Valle
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Impacts of Online Instruction in Prerequisite Courses on Student Performance in Postrequisite Courses
Lalitha Balachandran, Megan B. McNamara, Herbert K. H. Lee, & Michael Tassio
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Learning in the Counterspace of Not School
Saskias Casanova, Valeria Alonso Blanco, Andrew Takimoto, Andrea Vazquez, Rebecca Covarrubias, Rebecca London, Margarita Azmitia, & Cynthia Lewis
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Making Meaning of the Hidden Curriculum: Translating wise interventions to usher university change
Giselle Laiduc & Rebecca Covarrubias
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Minoritized students’ experiences with pandemic-era remote learning inform ways of expanding access
Samantha Basch, Rebecca Covarrubias, & Su-hua Wang
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Teaching and Learning During a Pandemic: How one graduate community psychology class quickly incorporated healing justice into our practices
Regina D. Langhout, Daniel Rodriguez Ramirez, S. Sylvane Vaccarino-Ruiz, Valeria Alonso Blanco, Katherine Quinteros, Daniel Copulsky, & Miguel A. Lopezzi
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Why Do Students Cheat? Perceptions, evaluations, and motivations
Talia Waltzer & Audun Dahl
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Why So Few, Still? Challenges to attracting, advancing, and keeping women faculty of color in academia
Jean E. Fox Tree & Jyotsna Vaid
