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| Date | Speakers | Title | Meeting Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1 | Julia Brisbane | Leveraging Epistemic Exclusion as a Lens for Investigating Black Engineering Students’ Undergraduate Research Experiences: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study | Zoom only |
| Feb 15 | Karen Martinez Soto | A Case Study of Conceptual Understanding in the Aerospace Engineering Middle Years | Zoom only |
| Feb 29 | Rachel Funk and Wendy Smith | Achieving Critical Transformations in Undergraduate Programs of Mathematics (ACT UP Math) | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Mar 28 | Angelica Philips | The Effect of Burdensome Survey Questions on Data Quality in an Omnibus Survey | Zoom only |
| Apr 11 | Jen Teshera-Levye | How can science help your community? Science civic engagement in science literacy students | Zoom only |
| Apr 25 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Zoom only |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Meeting Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 7 | Mojtaba Khajeloo | Concept map as a tool to assess and enhance students’ system thinking skills | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Sept 21 | Duane Shell | Outcome Expectancy: Motivating Students in STEM courses | Zoom only |
| Oct 5 | Regina Werum | Soldiers to Citizens… to Scientists? How Military Service is related to STEM Outcomes | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Oct 19 | Deepika Menon | Challenges and Accomplishments in Implementing Active Learning: Case Studies from Undergraduate STEM | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Nov 2 | Leen-Kiat Soh & Gwen Nugent | K-8 Computer Science in Nebraska: Teacher and Student Impacts | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Nov 9 | Isabel Miller from University of Michigan | Experiences of Engineering Students with Disabilities Using Accommodations | Zoom only |
| Nov 16 | Mayra Artiles from Arizona State University | Rethinking the Advising Relationship: Studies on Advisors and Advisees Experiences in Doctoral Engineering Programs | Heritage Room, Nebraska Union (city campus) or Zoom |
| Nov 30 | Kevin Lee | Utilizing Smartphones in the Astronomy Classroom | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Meeting Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 2 | Crystal Uminski | Do undergraduate science exams test science practices? | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Feb. 9 | Journal Club | Cultural identity central to Native American persistence in science | Zoom |
| Feb. 16 | Catherine Berdanier | Like Solving a Puzzle without Knowing the Picture: Characterizing Doctoral Engineering Attrition, Persistence, and Thriving | Due to inclement weather, seminar will be held via Zoom |
| Feb. 23 | Journal Club | Authentic STEM research, practices of science, and interest development in an informal science education program | Zoom |
| March 2 | Trisha Vickrey | The Impact of an Online Pre-course on Lowering DFW Rates in First Semester Organic Chemistry | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| March 9 | Journal Club | Student resistance to active learning: do instructors (mostly) get it wrong? | Zoom |
| March 16 | Spring Break | No Seminar | |
| March 23 | Elizabeth Hasseler | Multiple Case Study of Science and Engineering Integration in Secondary School Across Six School Districts | Bessey 109 or viaZoom |
| March 30 | Journal Club | True grit: How important is the concept of grit for educators? | Zoom |
| April 6 | TBD | TBD | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| April 13 | Journal Club | Spatial Thinking in Undergraduate Science Education | Zoom |
| April 20 | Ben Motz | Terracotta: Simplifying Rigorous Experimental Research on Teaching and Learning in Canvas | Zoom |
| April 27 | Kelsey Quaisley | Learning to Teach Prospective Elementary Teachers: A Narrative Inquiry of a Newer Mathematics Content Instructor | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| May 4 | Patrick Cunningham | Teaching Metacognition to Support Students Becoming More Skillful Learners | City Union Platte River Room South or via Zoom |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Meeting Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 1 | Ashley Rowland | The Codon Learning Study Path: A Tool to Promote Student Use of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Sept. 8 | Journal Club | A low-cost approach for rapidly creating demonstration models for hands-on learning. European Journal of Engineering Education | Zoom |
| Sept. 15 | Deepak Keshwani | reFEWSing to give-up: Reflections on a multi-year effort to develop research-based educational video games on agroecosystem sustainability and systems-thinking | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Sept. 22 | Journal Club | Successfully facilitating initiation of industry engagement in activities which involve students in engineering education, through social capital | Zoom |
| Sept. 29 | Jessica Deters | Investigating Student Experiences of Engineering Culture During COVID-19: A Comparative Case Study | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Oct. 6 | Journal Club | Design, discover, and decipher: student-developed escape rooms in the virtual ecology classroom | Zoom |
| Oct. 13 | Grace Panther & Yashin Brijmohan | Trials and tribulations of deductive qualitative analysis: Adaptability of university engineering instructors’ during COVID-19 | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Oct. 20 | Journal Club | Smartness in engineering: Beliefs of undergraduate engineering students | Zoom |
| Oct. 27 | Dana Kirkwood-Watts | Search Strategies: Information seeking behaviors of undergraduate biology students | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Nov. 3 | Journal Club | Examining interests and goals as predictors of gender differences in engineers' pursuit of managerial roles | Zoom |
| Nov. 10 | Jemal Halkiyo, Arizona State University | Enhancing the Equity and Inclusivity of Engineering Education for Diverse Learners through an Innovative Instructional Design, Delivery, and Evaluation: International Students in Focus | Zoom |
| Nov. 17 | Journal Club | What makes a good engineering lecturer? Students put their thoughts into writing | Zoom |
| Dec. 1 | Anum Khushal & Lyrica Lucas | Development of the Quantitative Modeling Observation Protocol (QMOP) for Undergraduate Biology Courses: Validity Evidence for Score Interpretation and Uses | Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Meeting Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 27 | Alena Moon | Seminar: An exploration of chemistry students’ conceptions of light and light-matter interactions in the context of fundamental experiments | Zoom |
| Feb. 3 | Journal Club | Jackson, J. K., Mejia, J. A., Holmes, M. H., & Stoiko, R. R. (2016, June). Dialogues Toward Gender Equity: Engaging Engineering Faculty to Promote an Inclusive Department Climate. In 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. | Zoom |
| Feb. 10 | Heidi Diefes-Dux and Morgan McArthur | Seminar: VR/AR Modules in Architectural Engineering to Improve Engagement, Self-Efficacy, and Retention | Zoom |
| Feb. 17 | Journal Club | Wass, R., Anderson, V., Rabello, R., Golding, C., Rangi, A., & Eteuati, E. (2020). Photovoice as a research method for higher education research. Higher Education Research & Development, 39(4), 834-850. | Zoom |
| Feb. 24 | Heather Akin | Seminar: Publics’ Perceptions of Controversial Science Issues – What Does Media Research Tell Us? | Zoom |
| March 3 | Journal Club | Basgier, C., & Simpson, A. (2020). Trouble and transformation in higher education: Identifying threshold concepts through faculty narratives about teaching writing. Studies in Higher Education, 45(9), 1906-1918. | Zoom |
| March 10 | Michelle Smith | What are undergraduate students learning and experiencing in field courses? | 3:30 p.m. School of Biological Sciences Seminar Zoom password: sbsseminar |
| March 24 | Bryan Dewsbury | A chance at birth - Faculty reflections on their social positioning in higher education classrooms | In person in Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| April 7 | Journal Club | Edwards, B. I., & Cheok, A. D. (2018). Why not robot teachers: artificial intelligence for addressing teacher shortage. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 32(4), 345-360. | Zoom |
| April 21 | Elizabeth Lewis, Lyrica Lucas, Brandon Helding, Amy Tankersley, Elizabeth Hasseler, Ana Rivero & Dale Baker | Discourse in Inquiry Science Classrooms (DiISC) Version 2.0: Developing a Validity Argument for a Secondary Science Classroom Observation Instrument | In person in Bessey 109 or via Zoom |
| April 28 | Changsoo Song | Automated Data Analysis of STEM Education Interventions with DBERlibR | Zoom |
| May 5 | Luanna Prevost | The influence of question features in revealing student thinking in biology | 3:30 p.m. School of Biological Sciences Seminar Zoom password: sbsseminar |
| Date | Speakers | Title | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 2 | Logan Perry | Seminar: A Multi-Case Study on the Transfer of Engineering Learning Between Capstone and Work | |
| Sept. 9 | Journal Club | Dear STEM, It's Time for Some Identity Work | |
| Sept. 16 | Ryan Bockman | Seminar: Spatial Skills and Programming | |
| Sept. 23 | Journal Club | Principles for Developing Competency-Based Education Programs | |
| Sept. 30 | Markeya Peteranetz and Leen-Kiat Soh | Seminar: Development and Validation of the Computational Thinking Concepts and Skills Test | |
| Oct. 7 | Journal Club | Sustaining Communities of Practice Focused on STEM Reform | |
| Oct. 14 | Mojtaba Khajeloo | An Overview of My Research Experiences at the University of Missouri: Reformed Based Education Practices, System Thinking, and Inclusive Excellence in Higher Education | |
| Oct. 21 | Journal Club | Faculty still harbor concerns about teaching STEM courses online | |
| Nov. 4 | Journal Club | Active learning: The importance of developing a comprehensive measure | |
| Nov. 11 | Yvonne Lai | Seminar: Making Advanced Mathematics work for Secondary Teacher Education |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 4 | Bonita Sharif | Seminar: How gaze differs between natural text and source code | |
| Feb. 11 | Journal Club | A Pandemic Crash Course: Learning to Teach Equitably in Synchronous Online Classes | |
| Feb. 18 | Julia McQuillan | Seminar: Worlds of Connections: Can Network Science for Health attract new youth to health careers? | |
| Feb. 25 | Abeera Rehmat | Seminar: Gateway to the Future: Computational Thinking in Education | |
| March 4 | Leen-Kiat Soh, Gwen Nugent, & Wendy Smith | Seminar: AIR@NE: A K-8 Teacher Professional Development Program for Teaching Computer Science | |
| March 11 | Journal Club | Understanding Conceptual Change and Science Learning through Educational Neuroscience | |
| March 18 | Nathan Wakefield & Rachel Funk | Seminar: Promoting a Community of Practice in the Age of Social Distancing | |
| March 25 | Kyle Unruh, Chad Brassil, Casey Nugent | Seminar: Potential of the Universal Data Platform for DBER at UNL | |
| April 1 | Allison Upchurch | Seminar: Barriers to Online Formative Assessments in Undergraduate Biology Courses | |
| April 8 | Journal Club | Posing Fundable Questions in Mathematics and Science Education | |
| April 15 | Amy Bennett | Seminar: Adapting in space: How math instructors navigate active learning in a collaborative classroom |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 23 | Wendy Smith | Seminar: SEMINAL: An Updated Look at Understanding Departmental Transformation Efforts | |
| Jan. 30 | Journal Club | The Impacts of Grades on Student Motivation | |
| Feb. 6 | Ale Magana | Seminar: A Cognitive Apprenticeship Model for Promoting Model-Based Reasoning through Computational Modeling and Simulation Practices | |
| Feb. 13 | Journal Club | Reducing the Racial Achievement Gap: A Social-Psychological Intervention | |
| Fri. Feb. 28 | Beth Lewis, Lyrica Lucas, Amy Tankersley, Elizabeth Hasseler | Seminar: Critical Factors for Effective and Equitable NGSS Science Teaching Practices | |
| March 5 | Journal Club | Why Do Women Opt Out? Sense of Belonging and Women’s Representation in Mathematics | |
| March 12 | Kelly Lane | Seminar: Are we crossing the instructional chasm? The who, what, when, where, and why of faculty teaching networks |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 5 | Journal Club | I on the Prize: Inquiry Approaches in Undergraduate Mathematics | |
| Sep. 12 | Leo Taylor, The Ohio State University | Workshop: Cultivating an Inclusive Environment: Recognizing and Responding to Implicit Bias | |
| Sep. 19 | Journal Club | A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement | |
| Sep. 26 | Heidi Diefes-Dux | Seminar: Reflection to improve student engagement | |
| Oct. 3 | Journal Club | Beyond small, medium, or large: points of consideration when interpreting effect sizes | |
| Oct. 10 | Bob Hilborn | Seminar: Results of the Physics and Astronomy new faculty workshops | |
| Oct. 17 | Journal Club | Levers for Change | |
| Oct. 24 | Mark Griep | Seminar: The sharing cycle of science learning: A method to connect college STEM courses with tribal community topics that enhance sovereignty | |
| Oct. 31 | Journal Club | Evaluation of Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey | |
| Nov. 7 | Ray Reichenberg | Seminar: Technology-enhanced Assessment: An Overview of Psychometric Challenges and Solutions | |
| Nov. 14 | Journal Club | Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom | |
| Dec. 5 | Grace Panther | Seminar: Engineering Education Research |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 17 | Journal Club | Teachers’ roles and identities in student-centered classrooms | |
| Jan. 24 | Anna Hiatt | Pre-college Influences on Undergraduate Biology Education | |
| Feb. 7 | Anthony Chase | How Do We Foster Appreciation for DBER on Our Campuses? - A Summary of Initiatives at the Undergraduate and Faculty Levels | |
| Feb. 14 | Journal Club: Zoe Falls | The Prospect of an" A" in STEM Education | |
| Feb. 21 | Carrie Clark and Joe Dauer | Seminar: Neural effects of modeling-based biology instruction | |
| Feb. 28 | Citlally Jimenez | Seminar: Developing Frameworks to Describe Students' Use of Evidence | |
| March 7 | Chad Brassil | Seminar: Study contracts help rescue initially low-performing students | |
| March 14 | Jim Houston and Gwen Nugent | Seminar: Analysis of Coaching: What, why, and how? | |
| March 28 | Journal Club: Morgan Balabanoff | A descriptive study of race and gender differences in how instructional style and perceived professor care influence decisions to major | |
| April 4 | Suzette Person | Seminar: Teaching Visual Communications & Peer Feedback (in Software Engineering) | |
| April 11 | Journal Club: Lu Shi | Reflections on barriers and drivers of instructional change in STEM departments at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln | |
| April 18 | Arpi Siyahian | Seminar: Overview of NUtech Ventures and Intellectual Property Commercialization |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 30 | Journal Club | Anatomy of STEM Teaching in North American Universities | |
| Sep. 6 | Elizabeth Lewis | Setting Our Priorities for Science Teacher Certification: Focusing on Evidence for Effective Science Teaching | |
| Sep. 13 | Journal Club | Journal Club | |
| Sep. 20 | Chris Moore | Scaffolding expert-like problem-solving and reasoning in physics and physical science | |
| Sep. 27 | Journal Club | When group work doesn’t work: Insights from students | |
| Oct. 11 | Journal Club | Effect of Teaching Metacognitive Learning Strategies on Performance in General Chemistry Courses | |
| Oct. 18 | Alena Moon | Initial efforts to develop and refine an argumentation task in organic chemistry | |
| Oct. 25 | Amy Goodburn | Visioning Priorities for the Center for Transformative Teaching | |
| Nov. 1 | Michelle Howell | 3-Dimensional models reduce biochemistry learning gaps | |
| Nov. 8 | Journal Club | Development of a coding rubric to characterize teaching beliefs of novice chemistry faculty at research-intensive institutions | |
| Nov. 15 | Tareq Daher | Exploring Faculty Experiences with COPUS: Strategies for Improving Student Learning | |
| Nov. 29 | Wendy Smith | SEMINAL: Preliminary Findings from Departmental Transformations | |
| Dec. 6 | Journal Club | Students Who Fail to Achieve Predefined Research Goals May Still Experience Many Positive Outcomes as a Result of CURE Participation |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 25 | Kevin Lee | Experiences as an NSF Rotator | |
| Feb. 1 | Mary Durham | Investigating agreement between students, instructors, and observers regarding frequencies of Scientific Teaching practices using the Measurement Instrument for Scientific Teaching for Observers (MISTO) | |
| Feb. 8 | Gwen Bachman | Working with honors students | |
| Feb. 15 | Erica Miller | Enacting High Cognitive Demand Examples: Exploring What Teachers Might Need to Know and Do | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 22 | Neal Bryan | CIRTL Network | |
| March 1 | Wendy Smith (Moderator) | DBER Town Hall | |
| March 15 | Doug Golick | Engaging Undergraduates in Citizen Science with Pollinators to Enhance Conservation Knowledge, Biological Systems Thinking, and Community Engagement | |
| March 29 | Alisa Gilmore | Blended Learning at a Distance | |
| April 5 | Tomas Helikar | Computational modeling, simulations, and technology as a learning tool in life sciences education | |
| April 12 | Clark Coffman | Interrupting the Forgetting Curve: Strategies for Sustaining Student Learning and Performance Across a Curriculum |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 31 | Tony Albano | Examining the effectiveness of collaborative assessment development in higher education | |
| Sep. 7 | Sydney Brown | Using technology with instructional methods | |
| Sep. 14 | Leen-Kiat Soh | Investigating differences in wiki-based collaborative activities between student engagement profiles in computer science education | |
| Sep. 21 | Presentacion Rivera | Measuring the cognitive demands of problems in undergraduate electrical engineering courses | |
| Sep. 28 | Wendy Smith | Student engagement in mathematics through an institutional network for active learning | |
| Oct. 5 | Lee D. Miller and Leen-Kiat Soh | Automatic evaluation of unstructured text in essay-style questions using IBM's Watson AP | |
| Oct. 12 | Ashu Guru | Emerging technologies and non-traditional teaching methods | |
| Oct. 19 | John Sangster | “Small Teaching” strategies for big impacts to learning outcomes, not your prep and grading time | |
| Oct. 26 | Kati Brazeal | Investigating how instructors can implement formative assessments to ensure student buy-in and utilization that supports learning | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 2 | Alexandra Twyman | Spatial development | |
| Nov. 9 | Elizabeth Lewis | Beginning science teachers' subject matter knowledge, misconceptions, and emerging inquiry-based teaching practices | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 16 | Joshua Lowe | Design pedagogy and creativity | |
| Nov. 30 | DBER Group | End-of-Year Social |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri. Jan. 20 | Amanda Sorensen | Building public science literacy to foster ecological resilience: Higher education, citizen science, and stewardship | |
| Fri. Jan. 27 | Mark Griep | Mini-Symposium: Best practices for REU programs and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 2 | Julia McQuillan | The potential scientist’s dilemma: How the Masculine Framing of Science Shapes Friendships and Science Job Aspiration | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 9 | Presentacion Rivera | Self-regulated learning in engineering labs | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 16 | Elvira Abrica | Thank God I'm Mexican: Cognitive racial reappraisal strategies of Latino engineering students | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 23 | Arefeh Mohammadi | A case study of the variables for women's success in engineering and computing | Digital Commons |
| March 2 | Brian Couch | Knowing what students know: How question formats differ in their abilities to reveal student thinking | Digital Commons |
| March 9 | Mindy Anderson-Knott | Social and behavioral science research support at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Digital Commons |
| March 16 | Sarah Spier | Assessing evolutionary reasoning of introductory biology students | Digital Commons |
| March 30 | John Sangster | Creating and managing successful student groups for class work | Digital Commons |
| April 6 | Brian Waters | A DBER approach to writing to learn | Digital Commons |
| April 13 | Wendy Smith | Undergraduate SEMINAL grant |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 1 | Stephen Cooper | Spatial skills training and introductory computing | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 8 | Joe Dauer | Model building versus model investigation | |
| Sep. 15 | Presentacion Rivera and Lance Perez | Problem solving in engineering | |
| Sep. 29 | Mark E. Burbach | Improving science student retention: A survey tool to measure first-year students' likelihood to remain at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 6 | Jenny Dauer | Teaching and research in SCIL 101: Science and decision-making for a complex world | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 13 | Joanna K. Hubbard | Clicker use in introductory biology: Impacts on exam performance | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 20 | Jordan Harshman | Benefits of using R for DBER | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 27 | Wendy Smith | Collegiate Active Learning Calculus Survey (CALCS): Adapting an instrument and using results | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 3 | Tina Vo | Exploring elementary teachers' model-based science instruction about water: A three year longitudinal multi-case study | |
| Nov. 10 | Randa Jabbour | Making classroom connections between farmers and students | |
| Fri. Nov. 17 | Douglas Golick and Jenny Dauer | Citizen science & science literacy |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 28 | Paul Royster and Sue Ann Gardner | Author Rights | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 4 | Yvonne Lai | K-12 and College Math Education Research Informs Comprehensive Approach to Course Transformation | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 11 | Jennifer Thoegerson and Andrea Dinkelman | Data Managment and Research Impact | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 18 | Elizabeth Lewis and Jia Liu | A Case of High School Earth and Space Science Education in the Great Plains | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 25 | Matthew Patton and Leilani Arthurs | Student-Teacher Affect in STEM College Course Transformation | Digital Commons |
| March 3 | Nathan Wakefield | Enriching Student's Online Experience in Pre-Calculus Courses: Hints and Cognitive Supports | Digital Commons |
| March 10 | David Gosselin | Remember EMBeRS: Model-based Reasoning, Collaborative Teams and Much More! | Digital Commons |
| March 17 | Lawrence Scharmann | A Retrospective on Student Learning and Acceptance of Evolutionary Science | Digital Commons |
| March 31 | Tareq Daher, Jiajia Chen, and Jeyam Subbiah | Just-in-Time Teaching in a Flipped Undergraduate Biological Systems Engineering Course | Digital Commons |
| April 7 | Bailey Kreager and Leilani Arthurs | Using Interactive Engagement Strategies to Enhance Learning in College Science Courses | Digital Commons |
| April 14 | Mary Durham, Jenny Knight, and Brian Couch | The Scientific Teaching Practices Survey for Undergraduate STEM Courses | Digital Commons |
| April 21 | Douglas Duncan | Put Away Your Phone and Learn! How technology engages or disengages students and… When it is good that your students are confused | Digital Commons |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 3 | Leen-Kiat Soh and Duane Shell | Integrating Computational Creativity Exercises into Classes | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 10 | Jon Velasco and Marilyne Stains | Instrument for Observing Lab TAs Approach to Teaching | |
| Sep. 17 | Wendy Smith | NebraskaMATH: Sharing Findings from a Statewide Partnership | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 24 | Arefeh Mohammadi | Contextualized STEM Education and Training through Advanced Visualization | |
| Oct. 1 | Christina Yao | International Students in Their Own Country: Motivation of Vietnamese Graduate Students to Attend Vietnamese-German University | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 8 | Kati Brazeal and Brian Couch | Student Perceptions of Formative Assessments | |
| Oct. 15 | Heather Bergan-Roller and Nicholas Galt | Research-driven Facilitation of Systems Thinking with Computational Models in Life Sciences Education | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 22 | Heather Bergan-Roller and Nicholas Galt | Research-driven Facilitation of Systems Thinking with Computational Models in Life Sciences Education | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 29 | Duane Shell and Leen-Kiat Soh | Understanding Student Motivation and Strategic Engagement in Computer Science and STEM Courses | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 5 | Erica DeFrain | Testing Assumptions of Interactive and Active Learning: An Evaluation of Tools for Online Information Literacy Instruction | |
| Nov. 12 | Wayne Babchuck | Grounded Theory's Contested Family of Methods: Historical and Contemporary Applications | Digital Commons |
| Dec. 3 | Tessa Andrews | Biology Education Research |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 29 | Julie Thomas | Vehicles on the Road to Reform | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 5 | Judy Diamond | Engaging Teenagers in Science with Comics | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 12 | Julie Thomas | Climate change skeptics teach climate literacy? A content analysis of children’s books | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 19 | Lorna Dawes | Library Services for the DBER Group | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 26 | Trisha Hill and Julia McQuillan | Is It Still Science If You Don't Call It Science? | Digital Commons |
| March 5 | Anthony Albano | Introduction to Educational Measurement | Digital Commons |
| March 12 | Brian Couch | Conceptual Assessment in Molecular Biology | |
| March 19 | Gwen Nugent | The Effectiveness of E-Coaching in Rural Science Classroms | Digital Commons |
| April 2 | Marilyne Stains | The Best of Both Worlds: Building on the COPUS and RTOP Observation Protocols to Easily and Reliably Measure Various Levels of Reformed Teaching Practice | |
| April 9 | Wendy Smith | Transforming Precalculus Instruction: Evidence-Based Course Design | Digital Commons |
| April 16 | Nathan Wakefield | The Effects of an Early Intervention Mastery Activity in the Mathematics Department | Digital Commons |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 4 | Dennis Molfese | Center for Brain Biology and Behavior | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 11 | Laura Zangori | Third-Grade Students' Engagement with Systems Modeling for Plant Life | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 18 | Jaime Sabel and Cory Forbes | Pre-service Teachers' Use of Content Knowledge to Inform Formative Assessment Strategies in an Integrated Life Sciences Methods Course | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 25 | Tonia Durden | Gaps and Opportunities: STEM and Early Childhood Education | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 2 | Tareq Daher | An Investigation of the SOAR Study Strategy for Learning from Multiple Online Resources | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 9 | Jolene Smyth | Using Survey Methodology to Improve Surveys Related to Science and Engineering | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 16 | Nathan Rossman, Anil Giri, Noelle Hart, and Victoria Chraibi | Water management role-playing game as an interactive teaching tool for increased understanding and communication among stakeholder groups in the central Nebraska Platte River valley | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 23 | David Brooks and Khalid Sayood | The Mindful Learning Model | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 6 | Chris Mead | The Development of a Valid and Reliable Biogeochemistry Concept Inventory | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 13 | Ryan Anderson, Shiyuan Wang, Dr. Lisa Pytlik Zillig, and Kevin L | Interactive Usage of Demonstration Videos: An Experimental Evaluation | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 20 | Jon Garbisch | The Cedar Point Experience, 40 Years of Field Based, Experiential Learning | Digital Commons |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 23 | Olha Ketsman | Student Retention in STEM: Exploration of the Gender Gap | Digital Commons |
| Jan. 30 | Gwen Nugent, Gina Kuntz, and James Houston | Coaching Science Inquiry | |
| Feb. 6 | Donald Lee | Slowly Rolling Over a Genetics Classroom | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 13 | Stephanie Wessels | Science as a Second Language | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 20 | Kathleen Wilson | iContact: Digital Feedback Offered and Used (or not!) in a Clinical Graduate Course | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 27 | Chad Brassil | Learning Catalytics Workshop | Digital Commons |
| March 6 | Joseph Dauer | Systems Thinking with Biology Models | Digital Commons |
| March 13 | David Shelton and Steven Roadie | Stormwater Management in Nebraska: Integrating Education, Extension, and Research | Digital Commons |
| March 20 | Cory Forbes | Development of an Empirically-based Learning Performances Framework for 3rd-grade Students' Model-based Explanations about Water | Digital Commons |
| April 3 | Walter Stroup | Data Connections RETA DBER, Quality Improvement in Education and Statistical Modeling | Digital Commons |
| April 10 | Douglas Golick | Pollination Education | |
| April 17 | Dennis Molfese | Brain Science & STEM Learning | Digital Commons |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 5 | Jenny Dauer | Transformations in Matter and Energy: Student Learning and Inquiry to Inform Teaching | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 12 | Lauren Gatti | The Power of Disciplinary Aims in Learning to Teach English | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 19 | Ruth Heaton, Wendy Smith, and Traci Kutaka | Creating Interdisciplinary Collaborations to Support and Understand Mathematics Teaching and Learning | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 26 | Tiffany Heng-Moss and John Osterman | UNL Life Sciences Initiative | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 3 | Michael Dodd | The influence of action on memory performance: When does it help you, when does it hurt you | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 10 | Devasmita Chakraverty | An Examination of How Women and Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Minorities Experience Barriers in Biomedical Research and Medical Programs | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 17 | Elizabeth Lewis, Aaron Musson, and Jia Lu | Educating Highly Qualified Science Teachers | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 24 | Travis Lund | Question Order Effects on a General Chemistry Concept Inventory | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 31 | Julie Albrecth | Food Safety Education for Hispanic and Native American Audiences Using the Conceptual Change Model | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 7 | Douglas Duncan | Put Your Phone Down Please: Digital Devices and Student Performance | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 14 | John Creswell | Steps in Conducting Mixed Methods Research | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 21 | Krista Adams and Jennifer Melander | ElemenTS: Elementary Teachers of Science -- Building Collaborations between Content and Pedagogy Communities | Digital Commons |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 17 | David Brooks | Here's Why | |
| Jan. 24 | John Osterman and Tiffany Heng-Moss | An Overview of the Life Sciences Curriculum | Digital Commons |
| Jan. 31 | Roger Bruning | ThinkAboutIt: A Framework for Learner-Learner and Learner-Expert Interactions | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 7 | Anne Schutte | The Influence of Perception on a Developmental Transition in Spatial Working Memory | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 14 | William Glider | Highlights of the NSF Sponsored Introductory Biology Project (IBP) Conference | Digital Commons |
| Feb. 28 | Kathleen Wilson | Inquiry-Based Formative Assessment for Improving Student Learning | Digital Commons |
| March 7 | Mark Burbach and Shannon Moncure | Assessing Retention in Two Freshman Natural Resource Orientation Courses | Digital Commons |
| March 14 | Matthew Moffitt | Understanding the Gap between Research and Practice: Chemistry Faculty's Awareness, Reported Implementation, and Perceived Difficulties in Implementing Evidence-Based Instructional Practices | Digital Commons |
| March 28 | Matthew Van Den Broeke | Tornado Knowledge and Perceptions as an Influence on Safety Actions Taken: Preliminary Results | Digital Commons |
| April 4 | Lorraine Males | Educative Supports for Teachers in Middle School Mathematics Curriculum Materials: What is Offered and How is It Expressed? | Digital Commons |
| April 11 | T. Jack Morris and Lisa M. PytlikZillig | Teaching of Biology: Including ELSI Activities in the Introductory Biology Classroom | Digital Commons |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 30 | Jonathan Velasco | Perceptions & Behavior on Chemistry Tutoring | |
| Sep. 6 | Frank Rack | Climate Change Education: What Works and Why? | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 13 | Krista Adams | Beginning Secondary Science Teachers PCK | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 20 | Julia Torquati | Young Children's Understanding of Conservation Concepts | Digital Commons |
| Sep. 27 | Steve Harris, Anisa Angeletti, and John Osterman | Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 4 | Leilani Arthurs | The National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Assessments in Science Courses: A Community Report | Digital Commons |
| Oct. 11 | Deblina Pakhira and Marilyne Stains | Chemistry Faculty Use of Clickers | |
| Oct. 25 | Jenny Green | Statistics Education Research | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 1 | Douglas Golick | Insects as Teaching Tools | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 8 | Stephen Ducharme | Nanoscience Outreach | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 15 | David Harwood & Leilani Arthurs | The History and Impact of a College-Level Field-Based Course on Learner and Community Development | Digital Commons |
| Nov. 29 | Stacey Lowrey Bretz | Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding & Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science & Engineering | Digital Commons |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue. Jan. 17 | Leilani Arthurs | Development of a Concept Inventory Assessment: Example from Oceanography | Digital Commons |
| Tue. Jan. 24 | Mary Ann Holmes | ADVANCing Women in STEM: Why We Need It, What We've Learned | Digital Commons |
| Tue. Feb. 7 | Jack Morris | Report on the National Forum On Improving Undergraduate Education through Active Learning Spaces | Digital Commons |
| Tue. Feb. 14 | Jon Pederson and Tiffany Heng-Moss | NebraskaSCIENCE | Digital Commons |
| Tue. Feb. 21 | Krista Adams | Beginning Chemistry Teachers: A Longitudinal Study of the Triplet Relationship | Digital Commons |
| Tue. Feb. 28 | Mark Griep | Studies on the Relationship between High School Preparation and Performance in College General Chemistry | Digital Commons |
| Tue. March 6 | Elizabeth Lewis | Conducting Educational Research with Secondary Science Teachers | |
| Tue. March 13 | Kevin Lee | Web-Based Assessment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Promise & Challenges | Digital Commons |
| Tue. March 27 | Douglas Kauffman and Duane Shell | The Unified Learning Model: How motivational, cognitive, and neurobiological sciences inform best teaching practices | Digital Commons |
| Tue. April 3 | Paul Savory | Peer Review of Teaching Project | Digital Commons |
| Tue. April 10 | Sue Ellen DeChenne | Preparing STEM Graduate Teaching Assistants to Teach | Digital Commons |
| Tue. April 17 | Marilyne Stains | Evaluating the Level of Inquiry of Laboratory Experiments Published in Peer-Reviewed Science Education Journals |
| Date | Speakers | Title | Presentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Leilani Arthurs | Framework for Discipline-Based Education Research | Digital Commons |
| Mon. Oct. 24 | Leilani Arthurs & Marilyne Stains | Organizational Meeting: Vision & Purpose, Options, Scheduling | Digital Commons |
| Mon. Oct. 31 | Marilyne Stains | Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education Practices | |
| Wed. Nov. 9 | Jonathan Velasco | Chemistry Tutoring: Chemical Education graduate student research plan | |
| Fri. Nov. 18 | Eric Malina | ACE 4: What is It & How are Departments Assessing It | Digital Commons |
| Mon. Nov. 21 | Hannah Sevian | NSF Programs in Education & Human Resources | |
| Tue. Nov. 29 | Elizabeth Lewis | Teacher Development through Inquiry & Self-Regulation Strategies |