I spent the day in the office for a change. I had so much fun interacting with people and finding things in the lab. While I was in several Zoom meetings, I was still in the office and able to see students and our team during breaks. I can’t wait to work with Delftia and […]
Karen Hales facilitated a virtual journal club session as part of the LSE webinar series last October that caught my attention: “Promoting Science Interest with Prosocial Utility.” Jeanette Zambrano, a doctoral student in Urban Education Policy with a concentration in Educational Psychology at University of Southern California introduced goal-congruity theory. Zambrano talked about dropout in […]
One of the March LSE webinars was “Exploring the Anatomy of a Research Study” with several authors and moderated by Dr. Cynthia Brame. The discussion with the authors Drs. Rebecca Price, Clark Coffman, Danielle Jensen-Ryan, and Jennifer Jo Thompson was based on their article: Becoming a “Science Person”: Faculty Recognition and the Development of Cultural […]
I had a fun day reconnecting with former students who have now become colleagues and collaborators. How cool! Their energy, willingness to teach me new things about technical writing and videos, and kindness have always been evident despite communicating only every couple of months. Kindness! That’s why when I saw Dr. Mica Estrada’s SABER talk […]
Dr. Lisa McDonnell is an Associate Teaching Professor at UC San Diego and was on the Online with LSE webinar series to discuss a recent publication about “Identifying Troublesome Jargon in Biology.” I like how Online with LSE is now having graduate students moderate the sessions! McDonnell began by highlighting how there is a lot […]
I’ve been thinking about Dr. Jeff Maloy’s JMBE Live presentation a couple of weeks ago. I watched part of it live, then watched the recording a week ago, and returned to it today after sharing the link and talking about it this week. Maloy is teaching faculty at UCLA with extensive experience in education research. […]
Dr. Ingrid Everett presented results of a study on culturally responsive teaching (CRT) at the 2020 Lilly Conference online. Everett is an early childhood educator with a background in Head Start. The presentation entitled: “Culturally Responsive Teaching, Math, And Teacher Education” had the subtitle “We already know what to do” highlighted Everett’s goal of sharing […]
Laura Cruz, Daniel Mallinson, and colleagues from Pennsylvania State University presented a session at the 2020 Lilly Conference on their analysis of the use of Nearpod engagement tool. Cruz, an instructional designer and educational researcher, briefly summarized educational research on student response systems and engagement. Cruz asked: “do clickers work?” adding that it depends on […]
You see it in educational studies. You read and nod to yourself: “yes that makes sense, they determiner reliability of…”, but do you know it is being used correctly? How do people come up with with criteria like a 0.7 cut off? I’ve wondered about this and, honestly, still don’t understand Chronbach’s alpha well. However, […]
An asynchronous session from the Lilly Conference by Jessica Jochum, Ed Jones, and Joanne Klossner caught my attention with the title: “Learn with Me: The Perceived Benefits and Barriers of Collaborative Interprofessional Research Groups”. This was a collaboration between the University of Indianapolis and the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Programs in MS […]