Author: Eleni Katherine Zotos

We’d like to welcome Safron and Sydni who are all awesome undergrads working with us this summer. Safron is a senior undergraduate student who is majoring in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota – Morris. As a part of her involvement with the McNair Scholars Program, she is conducting undergraduate research with the #ShultzSquad this…

Eleni and Jordan’s paper, University instructors’ knowledge for teaching organic chemistry mechanisms, is now available in CERP. In this study, Eleni and Jordan interviewed chemistry GTAs and faculty members, during which participants completed three mechanism questions from organic chemistry I exams and evaluated authentic student responses to the same question. Through qualitative analysis of interview…

The manuscript Detecting High Orders of Cognitive Complexity in Students’ Reasoning in Argumentative Writing about Ocean Acidification is being presented at the 11th annual Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference by group members Blair and Amber. The full manuscript can be found in the conference’s published proceedings. This work was started by former group members Alena Moon and…

Congrats to our undergraduate student Jordan, who has officially committed to going to Stanford to complete her Masters degree in Secondary Earth Science Education. We are so proud of you!

In Utilizing peer review and revision in STEM to support the development of conceptual knowledge through writing, now out in Written Communication, Solaire and Noelle describe a study identifying whether students revised their statistical language in response to a WTL assignment following peer review. The article also describes the relative impacts of the ability of the peers whose…

Michael and Solaire’s manuscript, Praxis of writing-to-learn: A model for the design and propagation of Writing-to-Learn in STEM is now out in JCE. In this manuscript, Michael and Solaire describe the process of designing and propagating Writing-to-Learn assignments in introductory STEM courses at the University of Michigan, and offer a framework for implementing similar tasks elsewhere.…

Congrats to Danielle who is now a PhD candidate! We are so proud of you.

Can NMR spectral interpretation be taught more efficiently?

Megan defended her dissertation on Teaching and Learning H NMR Spectroscopy. Our group celebrated all that Megan has accomplished in the snow and below freezing temps. We are so proud of you, Megan! Congrats to Dr. Connor!

Field and Solaire’s article, The current state of methods for establishing reliability in qualitative chemistry education research articles, is now available in Chemistry Education Research and Practice. In this manuscript, they review how researchers in CER establish reliability for qualitative studies. They describe the approaches for establishing reliability and analyze prior CER articles for how they report evidence…