New NSF grant!
Congrats to Ryan and Rosemary on receiving a grant from the NSF to study epistemological messaging in college science courses!
Reasoning & Epistemic Learning in Chemistry Lab
Congrats to Ryan and Rosemary on receiving a grant from the NSF to study epistemological messaging in college science courses!
Our work on student experiences with assessment-related epistemological messages was just published in Science Education. Congrats, Cara, Kimberly, Nicole, and Rosemary!
The story of a decade-long refinement of organic chemistry lab at UW–Madison was just published in JCE. Check it out!
Congrats to Kimberly, Rosemary and Prayas on their in-press CERP paper contrasting two ways of modeling instructors’ epistemologies! Fantastic work!
Huge congratulations to ChemLEAP co-developer and rockstar teacher Stacey Balbach for receiving the 2022 James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching! Way to go Stacey!
The ChemLEAP team just published a great study exploring the potential of curricular materials to communicate consequential messages about knowledge and knowing to teachers (and students). Check it out!
Adam Schafer was recently awarded a Mentoring Excellence Award from the UW–Madison Postdoc Association for being a Rockstar mentor. Congrats, Adam!!
Adam, Cara, Kimberly, Niall, Peter, and Jason were recognized for being amazing at our department’s 2022 Award symposium. Congratulations, everyone!
You can access many great phenomena-centered high school chemistry resources at our ChemLEAP website. Check it out!
Kimberly, Cara and Niall’s investigation of how what is assessed relates to organic chemistry students’ explanations for a benzylic hydrobromination reaction was just published in J. Chem. Educ. You can read the paper here. Congratulations, everyone!