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Undergraduate STEM Learning Assistant Personas
written by Trà Huynh, Lisa M. Goodhew, and Kara E. Gray
LA personas characterize common assets that LAs bring to the practice of teaching – these include ideas about STEM teaching and learning as well as LAs' goals for teaching. Personas are realistic, though fictionalized, characters that are based on potential or real users' personal goals and experiences when interacting with a program or product. Our LA personas address the design questions: How can we recruit diverse students to become LAs? How can LA pedagogy courses support LAs to engage in student-centered teaching? We use interviews with STEM LAs at three universities in the Pacific Northwest to construct a set of four Learning Assistant personas – each with distinct goals, perspectives, and experiences with teaching, and challenges they might encounter – that collectively represent the participant LAs. This set of personas can guide pedagogy course instructors to consider LAs' assets and experiences while designing courses that promote excellent, engaging, and equitable teaching.
Physics Education Research Conference 2025
Part of the PER Conference series
Washington, DC: August 6-7, 2025
Pages 208-214
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Education - Applied Research
- Teacher Preparation
= Early Teaching Experiences
Education - Basic Research
- Sample Population
- Student Characteristics
- Upper Undergraduate
- Lower Undergraduate
- Reference Material
= Research study
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PERC 2025
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Metadata instance created October 20, 2025 by Lyle Barbato
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October 27, 2025 by Lyle Barbato
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T. Huynh, L. Goodhew, and K. Gray, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2025, Washington, DC, 2025, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=17142&DocID=6070).
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T. Huynh, L. Goodhew, and K. Gray, Undergraduate STEM Learning Assistant Personas, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2025, Washington, DC, 2025, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=17142&DocID=6070>.
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Huynh, T., Goodhew, L., & Gray, K. (2025, August 6-7). Undergraduate STEM Learning Assistant Personas. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2025, Washington, DC. Retrieved February 11, 2026, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=17142&DocID=6070
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Huynh, T, L. Goodhew, and K. Gray. "Undergraduate STEM Learning Assistant Personas." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2025, Washington, DC, August 6-7, 2025. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=17142&DocID=6070 (accessed 11 February 2026).
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Huynh, Tra, Lisa M. Goodhew, and Kara Gray. "Undergraduate STEM Learning Assistant Personas." Physics Education Research Conference 2025. Washington, DC: 2025. 208-214 of PER Conference. 11 Feb. 2026 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=17142&DocID=6070>.
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