Today, we are excited to meet with Dr. Ben Van Dusen, a professor of science education at Iowa State University where he runs the Learning About STEM Student Outcomes (LASSO) platform. LASSO is funded through the NSF and is a free online resource supporting teachers in how to use research-based assessments to determine the impact of their courses on student content knowledge, attitudes, and identities. A focus of his research is the impacts of oppression on science student outcomes and how the quantitative methods that are commonly used by researchers may be obscuring academic inequities. A former high school physics teacher and Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, Dr. Van Dusen has a lifetime of educational acumen. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his children and playing a round of disc golf.

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