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Author:

Weible, Jennifer Lynn

Title:

Student use of Web 2.0 tools to support argumentation in a high school science classroom

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

Web 2.0 tools
science education
argumentation
technology
science practices
CSCL
sensemaking
articulating
persuasion

File:

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Committee Members:

Heather A Zimmerman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather A Zimmerman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mary Land, Committee Member
Priya Sharma, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Committee Member

Author:

Robert, Jenay Robin

Title:

Case Studies of Tenure-track Science Professors: Exploring the Relationship between Teaching and Research

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

science education
stem faculty
higher education
professional development
research and teaching

File:

Download JenayRobertDissertation2016.pdf

Committee Members:

William Carlsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rose Mary Zbiek, Committee Member
Gregory John Kelly, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Bower, Corinne Alane

Title:

Facilitating children's understanding of astronomy through a spatial perspective-taking intervention

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

spatial cognition
developmental psychology
spatial perspective-taking
spatial skill intervention
science education
astronomy

File:

Download CBower_Dissertation_eTDversion_10May2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Lynn Susan Liben, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lynn Susan Liben, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rick Owen Gilmore, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member
Julia Diane Plummer, Outside Member

Author:

Bateman, Kathryn

Title:

Assembling policy dilemmas: Science teacher responses to educational policy

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

educational policy
science education
communities of practice
dilemmas
sense-making
teacher learning

File:

Download Bateman_Kathryn_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Scott McDonald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Scott McDonald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Gregory Kelly, Committee Member
Dr. Richard Duschl, Committee Member
Dr. Tanya Furman, Outside Member

Author:

Webb, Aubree Megan

Title:

LEARNING AND ASSESSING HEREDITY IN AP BIOLOGY: THE ROLES OF GENETIC MECHANISM AND REASONING ACROSS SCALE

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

science education
genetics education
assessment

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephanie L. Knight, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Alan Duschl, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Greg Kelly, Committee Member
Rayne Audrey Sperling, Committee Member
David Lynn Passmore, Outside Member

Author:

Cho, Kyungjin

Title:

How do young children learn science through narrative, embodiment, and play?

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

young children
early childhood
narrative
storybook
picturebook
embodied cognition
embodiment
play
guided play
story
science education
explanations
conjecture map
science storybooks
science practices
body-based
gestures
play-based
preschool

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_ChoK__C_I_final__20210414_.pdf

Committee Members:

Julia Diane Plummer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julia Diane Plummer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carla Zembal-Saul, Committee Member
Jacqueline J A Reid-Walsh, Committee Member
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Outside Member
Elisa Shaw Hopkins, Special Member
Kimberly Anne Powell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Causland, Jonathan

Title:

White Shame, White Ambivalence, and Learning to be a White Anti-racist Ambitious Science Teacher

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction (PHD)

Keywords:

science education
white supremacy
whiteness
practice-based teacher education
teacher learning
critical whiteness pedagogy
critical whiteness studies
design-based research
storytelling
teacher education

File:

Download McCausland_-_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Mcdonald, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tanner Vea, Outside Unit & Field Member
Samuel Tanner, Major Field Member
Greg Kelly, Major Field Member
Andrea Mccloskey, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Conrath, Brandin

Title:

Sensemaking with Digital Models & Data: A Multi-Study Investigation of Learning Across the Geosciences

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction (PHD)

Keywords:

science education
geoscience
digital tools
models

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott Mcdonald, Program Head/Chair
Jason Griffith, Major Field Member
Scott Mcdonald, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Farris, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor