Check out doctoral students’ Josh Medrano and Joshua Jaffe, master teachers’ Chris Roemmele and Margaret Holzer, and Doug Lombardi’s recent article about using the MEL to teach about water resources, recently published in the journal Water, special issue Water Literacy and Education.
The SLRG continues to be supportive of the various conferences being moved online due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We have collected our virtual presentations here, and we hope that you will find them useful. Please feel free to reach out to any of the authors!
ST&D 2020, July 21-22, Cyberspace
Medrano, J., Jaffe, J., & Lombardi, D. (2020). Does the evidence support the model? Examining the effectiveness of two instructional scaffolds in science classrooms.
Recorded Presentation
APA 2020, August 6-8, Washington, D.C.
Jaffe, J., Medrano, J., & Lombardi, D. (2020). Promoting scientific plausibility and knowledge shifts through modeled evaluation activities.
Recorded Presentation
Matewos, A., & Lombardi, D. (2020). Examining engagement of a small group discourse network during collaborative argumentation.
Citing a special issue article recently published in Educational Psychologist, UMD College of Education reports:
From the coronavirus pandemic to climate change and presidential elections, misinformation surrounding important issues and current events is a growing and worrisome problem. Misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 virus, for instance, has permeated social media and is even being perpetuated by some world leaders, prompting public health officials to correct inaccuracies.
Researchers like Doug Lombardi, associate professor in COE’s Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, likens today’s flood of misinformation as living in a ‘post-truth era,’ where conjecture and emotional appeal are more important than logic and scientific reasoning in influencing public opinion.
“It’s a perfect storm of information availability, particularly through social media, and the rapid way that we can each distribute information, such as through Twitter,” Dr. Lombardi said.
Read the rest of the article here.
Read the cited paper here.
The SLRG has been supportive of the various conference cancellations due to the COVID-19 outbreak, although we are disappointed to not be able to share our work more broadly. We have collected our intended presentations here, and we hope that you will find them useful. Please feel free to reach out to any of the authors!
NARST 2020, March 15-18, Portland, OR
Klavon, T. Relationships Between Students’ Scaffolded Small-Group Discussions and their Written Scientific Explanations.
Klavon, T., Bailey, J., Lombardi, D., & Dobaria, A. Students’ Plausibility Shifts and Knowledge Gains When Evaluating Competing Explanatory Models about Freshwater Resource Availability.
AERA 2020, April 18-21, San Francisco, CA
Matewos, A. A., Lombardi, D., Bailey, J. M., & Herrick, I. (2020). From science student to conceptual agent: Examining the individual shifts in engagement during scaffolded instruction.
Lombardi, D., & Bailey, J. M. (2020). Science strategy interventions. Poster accepted for presentation as part of the symposium, “Investigating strategies and strategy use: Where do we go from here?”
Our very own Doug Lombardi received the 2020 Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award from the Society for Text & Discourse. The award is reserved for “early-career scholars who have contributed in an exceptional and innovative way to the progress of discourse research.” He will be presented the award in the 2020 Society for Text & Discourse meeting in Atlanta Georgia, and will speak at the following annual meeting in Oslo, Norway. Congratulations, Doug!
Janelle Bailey gave a keynote presentation at the first-ever International Astronomical Union Commission C1 Conference on Astronomy Education: Bridging Research and Practice, on September 16 in Garching, Germany. The talk, entitled “AER Pathways: Recent Research and Future Developments,” opened the conference after welcoming remarks from the IAU General Secretary and the conference organizers. Although the conference was small, with only about 120 people there, it was filled to the capacity of the host site, the European Southern Observatory’s Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre.
Find a PDF of the talk here: Bailey 2019 – AER Pathways.
Check out Doug Lombardi’s presentation, The Curious Case of Active Learning, at the Educational Psychology Colloquium at UMD (9/10/19)!
