Reports & Publications

Publications

Partial publication list from the CU Science and Mathematics Education Community

• Physics
• Biology
• Mathematics
• Cross-discipline

Physics

• Kohl, P.B. & N.D. Finkelstein. 2006. Effect of instructional environment on physics students’ representational skills. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 2, 010102.
• Adams, W.K., K.K. Perkins, N.S. Podolefsky, M. Dubson, N.D. Finkelstein, & C. E. Wieman. 2006. New instrument for measuring student beliefs about physics and learning physics: The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey.   Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 2, 010101.
• Perkins, K., W. Adams, M. Dubson, N. Finkelstein, S. Reid, C. Wieman & R. LeMaster. 2006. PhET: Interactive Simulations for Teaching and Learning Physics, The Physics Teacher.
• Finkelstein, N.D. & S.J. Pollock. 2005. Publisher's Note: Replicating and understanding successful innovations: Implementing tutorials in introductory physics. Phys. Rev. ST Physics Ed. Research 1, 010101.
  
• Kohl, P.B. & N.D. Finkelstein. 2005. Student representational competence and self-assessment when solving physics problems. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 1, 010104.
• Finkelstein, N.D., W.K. Adams, C.J. Keller, P.B. Kohl, K.K. Perkins, N.S. Podolefsky, S. Reid, & R. LeMaster. 2005. When learning about the real world is better done virtually: A study of substituting computer simulations for laboratory equipment. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 1, 010103.
• Finkelstein, N.D. & S.J. Pollock 2005. Replicating and understanding successful innovations: Implementing tutorials in introductory physics. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 1, 010101.
• Perkins, K. & C.E. Wieman. 2005. The surprising impact of seat location on student performance.” The Physics Teacher, 43, 30.
• Wieman, C. 2005. Engaging Students with Active Thinking, Peer Review, Winter.
• S. Singer, H. Dyasi, A. Eisenkraft, P. Hines, M. Lach, D.P. Licata, N. Pelaez, W. Sandoval, J. Spillane, C.E. Wieman. 2005. America’s Lab Report: Investigations in High School Science, Committee on High School Science Laboratories: Role and Vision, Susan R. Singer, Margaret L. Hilton, and Heidi A. Schweingruber, eds. Board on Science Education, Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC.
• Perkins, K. & C. Wieman. 2004. WebWatch: Free online resource connects real-life phenomena with science,” Physics Education, January, 93-95.
• Gallego, M.A. & N. Finkelstein. 2004. When the Classroom Isn’t in School: The Construction of Scientific Knowledge in an After-School Setting. in “Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities: Multiple Voices of Research on Teaching and Learning” Edited by Randy Yerrick and Wolff-Michael Roth, Lawrence Erlbaum 2004.
• Finkelstein, N. 2004. Bridging Critical Points:discontinuities in high school and university physics education. PERC proceedings
• Finkelstein, N. 2003. Coordinating Physics and Education Instruction," in Journal of College Science Teaching, Sept.
• Finkelstein, N. & J. Libarkin. 2002. Who Cares About Postdocs Anyway? Evaluating the National Science Foundation's Postdoctoral Fellowships in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education," LCHC technical report
• Finkelstein, N. 2001. Context in the Context of Physics and Learning, PERC Proceedings, PERC Publishing, Rochester, NY July 2001, pp 1-4. (pdf)

Biology

• Garvin-Doxas, K. & M.W. Klymkowsky. 2008. Understanding Randomness and its impact on Student Learning: Lessons from the Biology Concept Inventory (BCI). Life Science Education, in press.
• Klymkowsky, M.W. & K. Garvin-Doxas. 2008. Recognizing Student Misconceptions through Ed's Tool and the Biology Concept Inventory. PLoS Biology, 6(1): e3.
• Klymkowsky, M.W. 2007. Teaching without a textbook: a strategy to focus learning. CBE Life Science Education, 6: 190-193.
• Garvin-Doxas, K., I. Doxas & M.W. Klymkowsky. 2007. Ed's Tools: A web-based software tooset for accelerated concept inventory construction. Proceedings of the National STEM Assessment of Student Achievement conference.
• Garvin-Doxas, K., M.W. Klymkowsky & S. Elrod. 2007. Building, using, and maximizing the impact of concept inventories in the biology education: a meeting report. CBE Life Science Educ, 6: 277-282.
• Taylor, L.B., S. Spindler, R.K. Garvin-Doxas & M.W. Klymkowsky. 2006/7.  Two-dimensional implicit confidence tests as a tool for recognizing student misconceptions.  J. College Science Teaching. in press.
• Knight, J.K. & Wood, W. B. 2005. Teaching more by lecturing less. Cell Biol. Educ. 4: 298-310. 
• Klymkowsky, M.W. 2005. Points of view: content versus process: is this a fair choice? Can nonmajors courses lead to biological literacy? Do majors courses do any better? Cell Biol. Educ. Cell Biol Educ. 4:196-8.
• Wood, W.B. 2005.  Editorial: The future of CBE – Life Sciences Education.  Cell Biol. Educ. 4: 261. 
• Wood, W.B. 2004.  Clickers: a teaching gimmick that works.  Dev. Cell 7: 796-798.
• Wood, W.B. & Handelsman, J. 2004. Meeting Report: The 2004 National Academies Summer Institute for Undergraduate Education in Biology.  Cell Biol. Ed.3: 215-217.
• Handelsman, J., Ebert-May, D., Beichner, R., Bruns, P., Chang, A., DeHaan, R., Gentile, J., Lauffer, S., Stewart, J., Tilghman, S. M., & Wood, W.B. 2004. Policy Forum: Scientific teaching, Science 304: 521-522.
• Klymkowsky, M.W., R.K. Garvin-Doxas & M. Zeilik. 2003. Bioliteracy and teaching efficacy: what biologists can learn from physicists. Cell Biol Educ. 2:155-61.
• Wood, W.B. & Gentile, J.M. 2003. Policy Forum: Teaching in a research context. Science 302: 1510.
• Wood, W. & Gentile, J.M. 2003.  Meeting Report: The first National Academies Summer Institute for Undergraduate Education in Biology.  Cell Biol. Ed., 2: 207-209. 
• Wood, W.B. 2003.  Inquiry-based undergraduate teaching in the life sciences at large research universities: a perspective on the Boyer Commission Report.  Cell Biol. Ed., 2: 112-116.
• Wood, W.B. 2002.  Advanced high school biology in an era of rapid change.  Cell Biol. Ed. 1: 123-127.
• Wood, W.B. 2002.  Genesis of Biochemistry, A Problems Approach.  Cell Biol. Education 1: 16-17.
• National Research Council, Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools. Report of the Content Panel for Biology.  Wood, W. B., ed.  National Academy Press, 2002.  66 pp.

Mathematics

• Borko, H., J. Frykholm, M. Pittman, E. Eiteljorg, M. Nelson, J. Jacobs, K. Koellner-Clark & C. Schneider. 2005. Preparing teachers to foster algebraic thinking.  ZDM 37:43-52

Cross-discipline

• Briggs, D., Alonzo, A., Schwab, C. and Wilson, M. 2006.  Diagnostic Assessment with Ordered Multiple-Choice Items. Educational Assessment. 11: 33-64.