Introduction to Special Issue on Increasing Participation in Higher Education STEM Programs

Special Issue on Diversity in Higher Education

cation and recent anti-affirmative action legislation that poses setbacks in college access for underrepresented minorities (URMs). One important misconception is that K–12 schools have sufficiently addressed past inequalities in providing URMs access to college preparatory education. This article attacks this misconception using the circumstances in K–12 schools and the University of Californi...

Entrepreneurial Learning in Higher Education: Introduction to the Thematic Issue

i n t h i s i n t ro d u c t i o n to the thematic issue we review the theoretical foundations of the field of entrepreneurial learning and shed more light on entrepreneurial learning in higher education. Next, we discuss the importance of entrepreneurialism in universities to accommodate interdisciplinary learning modes. We then outline the article selection process and summarize the key eleme...

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

Special Issue—Pedagogy for Education for Sustainability in Higher Education

Reinforcement learning and higher level cognition: introduction to special issue.

Reinforcement learning (RL), originally an area of computer science concerned with learning to obtain rewards or avoid punishments by trial and error (Sutton & Barto, 1998), has recently played an influential role on cognitive science and systems neuroscience. Spurred initially by remarkable parallels between computational algorithms for solving such problems in engineered systems such as robot...