Meet the Team
Our work is powered by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, practitioners, and students who share a vision for supporting world-class STEM education for all students.
Core Leadership
Eric N. Smith, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Research Associate at The University of Texas at Austin
Afiya Fredericks, Ph.D.
Co‑Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor at the University of the District of Columbia
Kali Trzesniewski, Ph.D.
Co‑Principal Investigator
Associate Specialist in Cooperative Extension at the University of California, Davis
David Yeager, Ph.D.
Co‑Principal Investigator
Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin
Project Contributors
About Our Project
Our Origin
This program began in 2022 with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF Award #2201928). Our mission is to create the first scalable, student-report measure of STEM teaching practices so that instructors and researchers can see—with data—which classroom strategies truly foster engagement, persistence, and equity in undergraduate STEM courses. Over two-and-a-half years we refined the survey through four pilot studies, gathering more than 9,000 student responses and dozens of interviews across multiple institutions.
About The Surveys
We will put more information here shortly. Stay tuned!