FEW-NEXUS 2018 Poster Session

Doug Lombardi and Shondricka Burrell were able to represent SLRG at the 2018 Food-Energy-Water Nexus. The conference entitled, Innovating Teaching and Learning in the Food-Energy-Water-Nexus: Toward a National Collaborative for Food, Energy, & Water Systems Education (NC-FEW), was designed to foster collaboration amongst scientists, science education researchers, educators, and social scientists towards instructional design and educational research around FEW-related issues.

Doug presented a poster featuring the wetlands MEL and the freshwater resources baMEL. Poster title: Facilitating Students’ Critique, Evaluation, and Argument about Freshwater Resources

Lombardi 2018 FEW-NEXUS Poster

Shondricka presented a poster focused on water quality. Poster title: Use of a Water-Quality Themed, Place-based, Transformative Learning Experience to Support Student Interest Development, Self-efficacy, and Knowledge Construction

Burrell 2018 FEW-NEXUS Poster

SLRG members Doug and Shondricka will present research at the upcoming Food-Energy-Water Nexus scheduled for May 22-23rd in DC.

Doug’s poster will feature the freshwater MEL and baMEL and is entitled: Facilitating Students’ Critique, Evaluation, and Argument about Freshwater Resources

Shondricka’s poster will feature water quality and is entitled: Use of a Water-Quality Themed, Place-based, Transformative Learning Experience to Support Student Interest Development, Self-efficacy, and Knowledge Construction

SLRG team members Janelle, Shondricka, Tim and Doug, along with Amity (advised by Janelle) and Noelle (advised by Doug) presented research at NARST 2018. Their project titles are listed below.

Elementary Student Perception of their Teacher’s Self-Efficacy, Interest, and Enjoyment in Science and Science Teaching.                                             Poster: Noelle A. Luccioni and Doug Lombardi, Sandra K. Abell Institute 2017 Poster Symposium

Development of Professional Noticing Skills in Preservice Science Teachers Poster: Amity Gann, Graduate Student Research Symposium

Alignment of Students’ Discussion with Their Written Scientific Explanations Poster: Timothy Klavon, Graduate Student Research Symposium

Towards a Geoscience Pedagogy: A Socio-cognitive Model                     Poster: Shondricka Burrell, Graduate Student Research Symposium

Graduate Student Research Symposium Development of a Model Describing Scientific Thinking in Earth Science Students                                                 Poster: Shondricka Burrell, Doug Lombardi, Elliot S. Bickel, Janelle M. Bailey, Strand: Science Learning, Understanding and Conceptual Change

Dr. Doug Lombardi recently received word that he has been granted a promotion to Associate Professor, with tenure, effective July 1, 2018. Congratulations Doug!

Doug Lombardi received the 2018 Early Career Award from AERA Division C Learning and Instruction. The award was announced on April 15 at the Division C Business Meeting.

Tim Klavon received an Honorable Mention for the 2018 Richard C. Anderson Graduate Student Research Award at NCIC, awarded on April 14. Tim’s paper was written with co-authors Janelle Bailey (SLRG) and Shannon Willoughby (Montana State University).

Congratulations Doug and Tim!

SLRG will be well-represented at the 2018 National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition (NCIC) Research Program. Team members Tim Klavon, Jess McLaughlin, and Reed Kendall will be presenting their research at NCIC on April 14-15 in New York City. Click here for more details.

Doug Lombardi is the recipient of the 2018 Early Career Research Award from the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST). The award will be given at the annual conference’s awards luncheon on March 12. Congratulations, Doug!

Doug Lombardi accepted a recent invitation to serve on the editorial board of the Review of Educational Research (RER). The Social Science Citation Index has ranked RER as the number one Education and Education Research journal for a number of years. RER is published by the American Educational Research Association.

Shondricka Burrell and Tim Klavon will both be presenting at National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual International Conference in Atlanta, GA.  Both will be featuring their research in the Graduate Student Research Symposium on Monday, March 12th.