What We Do

The TRIAD Coalition supports evidence-based instructional practices through:

Transforming STEM courses to enhance learning

TRIAD facilitates the collaboration among STEM education researchers and faculty members who are interested in transforming STEM courses through the implementation of evidence-based best practices.  This community will connect the producers of education research (DBER faculty) with the consumers of education research (course instructors), sharing a common goal of improving STEM education for undergraduate students.

Research in STEM education

TRIAD serves as a community of practice for STEM scholars who are dedicated to improving undergraduate STEM education through research into student understanding and learning.

Instructional practices based on findings from DBER

TRIAD includes discipline-based education researchers (DBER) who are capable of serving as resources for course transformations, curriculum development, professional development, and assessment. In addition to the Rutgers Graduate School of Education (GSE) faculty who are already engaged in biology, mathematics, and physics education research, other DBER professionals in the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics solidifies the range of expertise needed to serve as these resources and establish interdisciplinary collaborations.

Assessment of learning

TRIAD works with course instructors to develop instructional and learning goals, and to design assessment that is consistent with the course goals.

TRIAD helps catalyze the difficult process of assessing learning in the large-enrollment introductory STEM courses with the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of instruction.

Dissemination to seed and support other course transformations

TRIAD helps disseminate better practices developed in one context to other contexts.