I’m a co-author on a paper recently out in BioScience (led by Cissy Ballen) examining the influence of various aspects of the learning environment on participation by women in STEM courses. This was a large, multi-institutional collaboration and our extensive dataset allowed us to demonstrate that smaller class sizes encourage more participation by women students. This study was also highlighted on the home page of the Cornell Chronicle last week!
Read the paper here: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz069/5530926
Stepfanie M. Aguillon, PhD 