Author: rstowe2

New NSF grant!

Congrats to Ryan and Rosemary on receiving a grant from the NSF to study epistemological messaging in college science courses!

New paper published in Science Education

Our work on student experiences with assessment-related epistemological messages was just published in Science Education. Congrats, Cara, Kimberly, Nicole, and Rosemary!

New organic chemistry lab paper in JCE!

The story of a decade-long refinement of organic chemistry lab at UW–Madison was just published in JCE. Check it out!

New paper contrasting two models for instructor epistemologies!

Congrats to Kimberly, Rosemary and Prayas on their in-press CERP paper contrasting two ways of modeling instructors’ epistemologies! Fantastic work!

Stacey Balbach honored with James Bryant Conant Award!

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!

New CERP study on curriculum-embedded epistemological messages

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 earns Mentoring Award from UW-Madison Posdoc Association!

Adam Schafer was recently awarded a Mentoring Excellence Award from the UW–Madison Postdoc Association for being a Rockstar mentor. Congrats, Adam!!  

Congrats to Adam, Cara, Kimberly, Niall, Peter, and Jason on their Awards!

Adam, Cara, Kimberly, Niall, Peter, and Jason were recognized for being amazing at our department’s 2022 Award symposium. Congratulations, everyone!

ChemLEAP website live!

You can access many great phenomena-centered high school chemistry resources at our ChemLEAP website. Check it out!

Kimberly, Cara and Niall publish new paper!

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!