A Literature Synthesis of Professional Development Programs Providing Pedagogical Training to STEM Graduate Students

Board 16: Work in Progress: Designing a course to equip Bioengineering graduate students with effective and equitable teaching skills

“…In total, these orientations dedicated less than 2 hours to learning pedagogical strategies. Similar training is seen in other engineering departments and institutions, leaving graduate TAs with limited access to sufficient training on pedagogical skills and strategies [7], [12].…”

State of Evaluating the Effectiveness of Teaching Development Programs for Students in Engineering

“…While there are a number of other studies like those discussed above that discuss the implementation of similar programs for graduate students TPD, the available literature is limited in multiple ways. Firstly, the overall scholarly work on the existence of such initiatives is scanty [22], which brings to question whether there are only a limited number of these types of programs implemented at institutions or if providers are simply not publishing studies about them. Secondly, the limited scholarly work available in this context discusses the methods used to implement such initiatives but outcomes based on empirical data or effectiveness of such programs have not been discussed [17].…”