Rules of engagement: Transforming the teaching of college-level science – December 18, 2014, NSF.gov, Discovery page A science education advocate (Michelle K. Smith) who trained as a molecular biologist uses her analytical background to create teaching strategies that energize both students and faculty. Remember BIO 101? The professor lectured uninterrupted while some students scrawled pages […]
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Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) Colloquia & Seminar Series Presents Marilyne Stains Assistant Professor of Chemistry University of Nebraska – Lincoln How do university science faculty really teach? There is growing interest in transforming the instructional practices of faculty teaching science courses at the university level. As faculty development efforts expand, […]
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ORAL THESIS DEFENSE MST Candidate Sundance Campbell Thesis Advisor: Natasha Speer Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Teaching May, 2015 College student difficulties with applied optimization problems in introductory calculus College calculus is an early gateway course for many college majors, especially those in science, technology, […]
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Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) Colloquia & Seminar Series Grant Williams School of Education, St. Thomas University Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Kinulations: Fostering K-12 Students’ Understanding of Science Concepts through Participation in Kinesthetic Simulations Research on the use of simulations in science education indicates that students can develop deep conceptual understanding […]
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RiSE Center Colloquium Monday, Sept. 22, 2014 3:00 pm 165 Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall Speaker: Allison Dorko, Ph.D. candidate at Oregon State University MST Alumni Some Ideas about How Calculus Students Generalize from Single- to Multivariable Contexts Generalization is a critical goal of mathematical thought and thus a goal of instruction. However, […]
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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 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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