Biography
Science Education
Equity in STEM student outcomes
Quantitative Critical (QuantCrit) perspective
Quantitative methods
Assessment and student learning
Research Interests
Creating equitable outcomes in the STEM disciplines and developing quantitative research methods that align with the tenets of CRT.
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Van Dusen, B. & Nissen, J. (2022). How statistical model development can obscure inequities in STEM student outcomes. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.2022036220
Van Dusen, B., Nissen, J., Talbot, R., Huvard, H., Shultz, M. (2021). A QuantCrit investigation of society’s educational debts due to racism and sexism in chemistry student learning. Journal of Chemical Education. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00352
Nissen, J., Her Many Horses, I., & Van Dusen, B. (2021). Investigating society’s educational debts due to racism and sexism in student attitudes about physics using quantitative critical race theory. Physical Review Physics Education Research. Doi: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010116
Van Dusen, B. & Nissen, J. (2020). Associations between learning assistants, passing introductory physics, and equity: A quantitative critical race theory investigation. Physical Review Physics Education Research. 16, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010117
Van Dusen, B. & Nissen, J. (2020). Equity in College Physics Student Learning: a Critical Quantitative Intersectionality Investigation. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. doi:10.1002/tea.21584
Barthelemy, R., Van Dusen, B., & Henderson, C. (2015). Physics Education Research: A Research Subfield of Physics with Gender Parity. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 11(2), doi:10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.11.020107.