ORONO, Maine — University of Maine faculty, staff and graduate students will discuss evidence-guided teaching and learning strategies with preK-12 STEM teachers Nov. 16-17 at Point Lookout in Northport, Maine. About 125 attendees are expected at the eighth annual fall summit of the Maine STEM Partnership, a statewide education improvement community. “The summit is a fantastic opportunity for […]
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Mathematics and statistics faculty member Tim Boester has become a member of the RiSE Center. Tim’s research focus is undergraduate mathematics education. He studies theories of advanced mathematical thinking and learning and how those theories suggest students learn particular mathematical concepts, such as limit, derivative, and absolute value. He has also begun studying student-tutor interactions as […]
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Master of Science in Teaching students Bryn Keenhold and Laura Millay present thesis research at Northeast Education Research Association (NERA) with RiSE faculty member Franzi Peterson.
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Members of the Physics Education Research Laboratory (PERL) were extremely active at national meetings this past summer. The conference season started off with the Third Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year (BFY III) at Loyola University Maryland, where two members of PERL presented one poster and also offered a workshop on flexible resources […]
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Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) Colloquia & Seminar Series Presents Steven Greenstein Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ Topology, Technology, and Children’s Ideas ABSTRACT: Children’s school experiences in geometry are entirely Euclidean. But they also have topological, or at least non-metric, ideas. In this talk I will describe the forms of mathematical […]
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Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) Colloquia & Seminar Series Presents Jose Herrera Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (CASa) Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM 88062. E-mail: jose.herrera@wnmu.edu Summiting the academic mountain: The challenges of first-generation college students Over the preceding […]
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Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) Colloquia & Seminar Series Presents Ravit Duncan Associate Professor of Science Education Rutgers University Developing and Testing a Learning Progression in Genetics ABSTRACT: The Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards embody a developmental perspective on learning in their proposed learning progressions for core […]
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Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) Colloquia & Seminar Series Presents Sara Lindsay School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine Assessing Student Learning in Ocean Science: Charting a course in the School of Marine Sciences The oceans define our planet, supporting and shaping life on earth. Many challenges facing society involve the […]
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ORAL THESIS DEFENSE Gregory Kranich Thesis Advisor: Michael Wittmann An Abstract of the Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science (in Teaching) December, 2015 INCONSISTENT CONCEPTIONS OF ACCELERATION CONTRIBUTING TO FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT LIMITATIONS Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has become a national priority […]
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ORAL THESIS DEFENSE MST Candidate Daniel Laverty Thesis Co-Advisor: John Thompson Thesis Co-Advisor: MacKenzie Stetzer Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Teaching December, 2015 Investigating Teachers’ Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge in a Middle School Physical Science Curriculum on Force and Motion Teaching is a […]
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