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Thesis Oral Defense – Mary Jean Jones

ORAL THESIS DEFENSE MST Candidate Mary Jean Jones Thesis Advisor: Molly Schauffler An Abstract of the Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Teaching August, 2013 AN ASSESSMENT OF NINTH GRADERS’ USE OF GRAPHS AND EXPLANATIONS TO COMMUNICATE SCIENTIFIC IDEAS            Proficiency in science learning involves […]

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RiSE Colloquium – Nicole Gillespie – April 1

Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) University of Maine, Orono, Maine Presents Nicole Gillespie, Ph.D. Executive Director Knowles Science Teaching Foundation   Inquiry and Teacher Professional Development: Lessons Learned from the KSTF Teaching Fellowship Program Recent work argues that professional development intended to develop teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) must be tightly […]

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Oral Thesis Defense – Ryan Weatherbee – April 8

ORAL THESIS DEFENSE MST Candidate Ryan Weatherbee Thesis Advisor: Dr. Sara Lindsay An Abstract of the Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Teaching May, 2013 Shedding light on marine science education: A Cross-Sectional Assessment of Student Content Knowledge in an Undergraduate Marine Science Program Program-level […]

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Oral Thesis Defense – Evan Chase – April 3

ORAL THESIS DEFENSE MST Candidate Evan Chase Thesis Advisor: Dr. Michael C. Wittmann An Abstract of the Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Teaching May, 2013  INVESTIGATING PHYSICS STUDENTS’ SIMULTANEOUS USE OF GESTURES & SPEECH TO DESCRIBE MULTIPLE QUANTITIES OF A VERTICALLY-TOSSED BALL                While […]

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RiSE Center Colloquium, 18March – MacKenzie Stetzer

The Center for Research in STEM Education and the University of Maine Present   MacKenzie R. Stetzer Assistant Professor of Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine   New insights into student understanding of electric circuits and analog electronics In recent years, large-scale undergraduate course transformation efforts have become an increasingly visible response […]

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Special Talk – “Learning by Explaining Complex Systems” – Lauren Barth-Cohen

The RiSE Center and the University of Maine presents Lauren Barth-Cohen, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Post-Doctoral Associate candidate “Learning by Explaining Complex Systems” In this talk I present work that focuses on students’ competencies in generating scientific explanations within the domain of complex systems, an interdisciplinary area in which students tend to have difficulties. […]

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RiSE Colloquium, Monday, February 18 at 3:00 pm – Michelle Smith

Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) University of Maine, Orono, Maine Presents Michelle Smith Assistant Professor, School of Biology and Ecology University of Maine Identifying and Changing Persistent Conceptual Difficulties in Undergraduate Biology Courses As biology faculty transform their courses to align with the recommendations in the NSF-AAAS report Vision and Change […]

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RiSE Colloquium, Monday, February 4 at 3:00 pm – Erin Furtak

Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) University of Maine, Orono, Maine Presents Erin M. Furtak Assistant Professor, School of Education University of Colorado at Boulder Exploring the Role of Disciplinary Knowledge, Language, and Practices in Collaborative Formative Assessment Design While Black & Wiliam (e.g. 1998) and others often cast the process of […]

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RiSE Center Seminar, January 30 at Noon, Sarah Nelson

Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) University of Maine, Orono, Maine Presents Sarah Nelson Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research and School of Forest Resources Who’s the expert here?  Collaborative mercury research in the Acadia Learning Project Acadia Learning is a joint program of the SERc Institute, the […]

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Thesis Defense, Kara Soule, 1/11/2013

The University of Maine and the Maine RiSE Center present ORAL THESIS DEFENSE MST Candidate Kara Marie Soule Thesis Advisor: Dr. Molly Schauffler Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science (in Teaching) May, 2013 ASSESSING AND ENHANCING STUDENT UNDERSTANDING OF CARBON CYCLING IN ORGANISMS         Scaffolding students’ understanding […]

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