The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) and The University of Maine would like to announce the final Teacher Research Sabbatical program: a paid academic-year research experience open to all STEM teachers in Maine and other rural New England states. This will be the LAST year for the sabbatical program as JAX shifts resources to a more broadly-disseminated model […]
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The EqualityMaine Awards 30th Anniversary Celebration Banquet was held in Portland on Saturday, March 22, 2014. Our Elementary Science Partnership Project Coordinator, Travis Hall, won the “Out Front Volunteer Leadership Award”. To read more about Travis, please click on the link above. Way to go, Travis!!
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Like many physicists, Michael Wittmann (’93) was drawn to the subject because it’s a way of understanding how the world works. But Wittmann is also interested in understanding how teaching and learning work. “I come from a line of teachers and physicists and engineers,” he says. “So I grew up with dinner table conversation about […]
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A University of Maine researcher is participating in five projects aimed at improving nationwide science instruction and assessments. Michelle Smith, assistant professor in UMaine’s School of Biology and Ecology, is the principal investigator on four projects and co-principal investigator on another granted $6.8 million in total funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF); UMaine’s […]
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ORAL THESIS DEFENSE MST Candidate Zachary Batz Thesis Advisor: Michelle K. Smith Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Teaching August, 2014 Reaching Struggling Introductory Biology Students with a Targeted Peer Tutoring Program Low persistence in STEM majors has long been an area of concern for institutions […]
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Justin D. Lewin College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture Bachelor of Science in Biology Justin D. Lewin of Castle Hill, Maine, majored in biology. He also began graduate work toward a Master of Science in Teaching. His numerous academic honors include an Armed Forces Communication & Electronics Association STEM Teachers for America’s Future Scholarship […]
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Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) University of Maine, Orono, Maine Presents Vicki Sealey Department of Mathematics West Virginia University Lessons Learned from Research on Student Understanding of the Definite Integral Abstract: The Riemann sum and definite integral have numerous applications in the sciences and certainly are important to the mathematical […]
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ORAL THESIS DEFENSE MST Candidate Shahram Shawn Firouzian Thesis Advisor: Natasha Speer Thesis Committee: Natasha M. Speer Robert Franzosa John Thompson Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Teaching May, 2014 Correlations Between Students’ Multiple Ways of Thinking About the Derivative and Their Abilities to Solve Applied […]
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Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) Colloquia & Seminar Series Presents Eric Pandiscio Department of Exercise Science and STEM Education Maine RiSE Center, University of Maine Differentiated student thinking while solving a distance vs. time graph problem This study probes the thinking of students at different stages of mathematical experience: college students […]
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