Chemistry Education Research

Graduate Student Conference

Miami University

Oxford, OH

June 5-7, 2009

 

Plenary Speakers        Session Title (Abstract #)

Melanie Cooper            Problem Solving and Metacognition (P1)

Maria Oliver-Hoyo        Merits of Activity-Based Instruction: From Practical
                                        Issues to Pedagogical Gains
(P2)


Workshop Leaders      Session Title (Abstract #)

Susan Hixson                NSF Mock Proposal Review Panels (W1)

Thomas Holme             Testing as Measurement and Sources of Error (W2)

Norbert Pienta              Simulated CER Journal Reviews (W3)


Graduate Students                     Poster Title (Abstract #)

Krista Adams                            Beginning Chemistry Teachers' Development of Pedagogical Content
                                                        Knowledge (
B3)

Parichehr Afshani                    Collaboration and Guided Inquiry in the Physical Chemistry Lab (B17)

Karrie Anderson                        Enhancing and Assessing Students' Scale Perception and Atomic Unitizing
                                                        with Inquiry-Based Activities Using Live or Remote-Access
                                                        Instrumentation (
B15)

Seth Anthony                              Investigations Towards Understanding and Improving Student
                                                        Metacognition within MORE Laboratory Instruction (
A11)

Nicole Becker                            Shared Mathematical Understandings in Upper-Level POGIL Physical
                                                        Chemistry (
A20)

Derek Behmke                            In-Time Interventions: An Attempt to Improve Student Performance in Large
                                                        Lecture General Chemistry Courses (
A5)

Michael Bindis                           Misconceptions about Intermolecular Forces in Chromatography (B10)

Colin Blair                                   Design, Implementation, and Assessment of the Exploring Gold
                                                        Nanoparticles Laboratory Module (
A8)

Sarah Boesdorfer                     Inquiry Use and Teacher Thoughts on Inquiry Use in the Advanced
                                                        Placement Chemistry (
B4)

Aaron Bruck                                Faculty Perspectives of Undergraduate Laboratory Goals (A12)

Adessa Butler                           Effectiveness of Inquiry on Students' Comprehension and Retention of
                                                        Chemistry Concepts (
B7)

Christine Cardillo                      Online Cross-Course Group Work between General Chemistry Students and
                                                        Senior Pharmacy Students (
B6)

Heather Caruthers                     Building a Template to Organize the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry
                                                        Curriculum (
A16)

Caroline Christian                       Development of a Chemistry Specific Visual-Spatial Assessment (A14)

Karen Christian                           The Use of Study Groups and their Affect on the Learning Process (A6)

Stephanie Cunningham Ryan   Student Understandings of Solutions (B9)

Michelle Dean                           Assessment of Stereochemistry:  Findings and New Directions (A17)

Elisabeth Goei                          Using Green Chemistry Experiments to Engage Sophomore Organic
                                                        Chemistry (
B14)

Alma Gonzales                         Capturing Misconceptions in Chemistry with the Aid of Technology (B11)

Cara Hale-Hanes                        High School Student Construction of Categories for Chemical Change,
                                                        Physical Change and Matter (
A3)

Dustin Hillman                            Examination of Active and Critical Learning with Difference Media Learning
                                                        Environments (
A15)

Jana Jensen                              Misconceptions about Acid-Base Reactions (B12)

Kimberly Linenberger              Methodological Musings on Using Multiple Representations to Probe Student
                                                        Misconceptions of Enzyme Catalysis (
B18)

Cynthia Luxford                         Misconceptions about Lewis Dot Structures - Beyond the Octet Rule (B8)

LaKeisha McClary                    Organic Chemistry Students' Use of Heuristics When Ranking Compounds
                                                        Based on Acid Strength (
A18)

Bethany Melroe Lehrman            Inquiry in the Chemistry Classroom: An Age Comparative Study of Higher
                                                        Order Thinking Skills (
A1)

John Moody                                Dispelling Misconceptions by Self Directed Laboratories or Mini Projects
                                                       (
A10)

Erin O’Connell                         Rapid Knowledge Assessment: Correlating Student Reported Immediate First
                                                        Steps and Problem Solving Efficiency (
B19)

Mary O’Donnell                        Investigating Children's Ideas about Chemicals (B1)

Matthew Pilarz                            Examining the Effects of a Research Based Curriculum Module on High
                                                       School Chemistry Students' Perceptions of School Science and
                                                       Professional Science (
A2)

Nahyr Rovira-Figueroa               Assessing the Factors that affect the Ways High School Chemistry
                                                        Students Write Effective Laboratory Reports (
A4)

Erin Holland Saitta                    Learning Dimensional Analysis Through Cooperatively Working with
                                                        Manipulatives (
B13)

David Sanabria-Rios                Is There Any Relationship between Faculty Expectation about Learning
                                                        Chemistry and the Construction of Non-ACS Exam Questions? (
B20)

Cynthia Stanich                        Undergraduate Chemistry Students' Attitudes about Math and Proficiency in
                                                        Math (
A19)

Gabriela Szteinberg                    Long-Term Impact of an Authentic Research-Based Laboratory on Students'
                                                        Retention and Performance in the Sciences (
A9)

Forrest Towne                          An Investigation of the Effectiveness of Thinking Skill Training with Middle
                                                        School and High School Students (
B2)

Sonia Underwood                       Investigating the Construction and Perceived Utility of Lewis Structures: A
                                                         Mixed-Methods Approach (
A7)

Ana Vasquez Murata                Misconceptions in UV-Vis Energy Diagrams (B5)

Andrea Verdan                           Raising the Red Curtain: The Ethics and Norms of Chemistry Graduate
                                                        Students (
A13)

Ashley Warren                          Using Analogies to Illicit Biochemistry Misconceptions (B16)



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