Sarah E. Andrews

Sarah is now the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Assessment Consultant in ASSETT.

Sarah was a research associate in the Center for STEM Learning at CU Boulder, the project lead for the TQF, and a consultant on the A&S Quality Teaching Initiative. Her work focused on supporting improvements to the ways in which teaching is evaluated at CU. Towards this end, in addition to project management, she facilitated small working groups within multiple departments (STEM and non-STEM) across CU as they worked to make concrete improvements to their departmental teaching evaluation process and/or the tools they use to evaluate teaching. Her research interests in this area included comparing the process of change across departments from different disciplinary domains and documenting the impact of the Teaching Quality Framework initiative.  

Sarah earned her B.S. in Microbiology from Clemson University in 2003 and her Ph.D in Earth and Environmental Science from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 2014. Half of her dissertation research was education-based and focused on transformation of an introductory soil science course to a studio-style, student-centered active learning environment. From 2016 to 2018 Sarah was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of New Hampshire, working with Dr. Melissa Aikens on understanding undergraduate life science majors’ attitudes toward the use of mathematics in their biology courses.