Science Education at the Crossroads

2007 Proceedings

 

Previous conference proceedings and other relevant Crossroads presentations are available in our reference library. Papers accepted and formatted for the 2007 conference are listed below. You may proof your own contributions and read others' works as well.

A full printed copy of the Proceedings is made available at the conference, and is also available for here in pdf form (3.2 MB).

Author & title Date posted/revised Link
Kip Ault
Lewis & Clark College
Macaques, Medical Research, and Middle School: Adding Social Context to the Culture of School Science
9/3/07 Download
Lloyd Barrow
University of Missouri
Are Geological Science Concepts Endangered at the High School Level?
8/20/07 Download
Francis Broadway
The University of Akron
To Be a Male, a Negro, and a Queer: Pedagogy in (Science) Education
8/27/07 Download
Michelle Brown
O. Henry Middle School, Austin, TX
Trying to Fly When I Don't Have My Wings: Inquiry as a Beginning Science Teacher
8/27/07 Download
Malcolm B. Butler
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
The Invisible Science Educator
8/24/07 Download
Mary Anne Butler
CT State Department of Education
Professional Development that Looks Beyond the Test
9/4/07 Download
Cory Buxton
University of Miami
Moving from the Regressive to a New Intersection
8/24/07 Download
Heidi Carlone
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Defining My Post-tenure Self Within and Against Historically Worn Grooves of Academia
8/20/07 Download
Robert Ceglie
University of Connecticut
Why Science? Trying to Find and Define a Science Identity
8/24/07 Download
Terri Clark
Connecticut Academy
Standards & Curriculum for Informal Science Education
9/10/07 Download
Amy Cox-Peterson
Cal State Fullerton
I've Played the Game: Now What?
8/30/07 Download
Kathy Crooks
University of Akron
Finding a Place to Support and Sustain Lasting Change
9/4/07 Download
Dina Drits
University of Utah
At a Crossroads at Crossroads: Looking Ahead as I Prepare to Leave My Student Status Behind
8/27/07 Download
Mark Enfield
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Re-Envisioning Roles in the Improvement of Science Teaching and Learning
8/30/07 Download
Steven S. Fletcher
St. Edwards University
Killing the teacher within?: Challenging pre-service teacher beliefs about teaching and learning and the theory/practice conundrum
9/2/07 Download
Larry Flick
Oregon State University
Reexamining ‘Hands-on Science’ as a Tool for Learning
8/24/07 Download
Magnia George
Emory University
Disentangling Goals, Agendas, and Outcomes – Science For All Is As Much a Moral Imperative As It Is an Issue of Global Competitiveness
9/2/07 Download
Carol Artacho Guerra
University of Connecticut
¿Qué demonios son las ciencias?
9/2/07 Download
Heather Harkins
University of Connecticut
“Can I Study You?”: Crossing the Border from Collaborator to Researcher
9/3/07 Download
Jon Jackson
University of North Dakota
Audience or Personal Response Systems (aka, “clickers”) — Tools or Toys?
9/11/07 Download
Eugenia Johnson-Whitt
University of Akron
Students’ Definitions and Knowledge of Science: CSI versus the Classroom
9/3/07 Download
Adam Johnston
Weber State University
"Correspondence To:"
8/29/07 Download
Julie Kittleson
University of Georgia
Modest Approaches to Grand Challenges
9/2/07 Download
Michele Lee
University of Missouri - Columbia
Giving Voice to Science Education Research in the Policy Arena
9/5/07 Download
Yingjie Liu
University of Connecticut
Intercultural Inquiry in Online Environments: My Vexation and Venture
8/30/07 Download
Sharon Lynch
The George Washington University
Science Education Research in the Science Education Research Bubble
9/2/07 Download
Kathy Manning
Shaker Heights (Ohio) Middle School / John Carroll Universtiy
The True Nature of Science: Is it Always Greener on the Other Side of the Septic Tank?
9/10/07 Download
Jacqueline T. McDonnough
Virginia Commonwealth University
Measurement of Teacher Effectiveness: Can It Be Done?
8/29/07 Download
Lee Meadows
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Pondering Leadership: Impact or Idiocy?
8/20/07 Download
Janice Meyer
University of Houston - Clear Lake
Reaching Out to Science Faculty to Prepare Future Science Teachers
9/3/07  
Sherry Mitchell
Bailey Middle School / New Haven University
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
9/4/07 Download
David M. Moss
University of Connecticut
Making a Case for Revising State Standards: Crossing the Border from Academia to Where Accountability Really Counts
8/27/07 Download
Steve Oliver
University of Georgia
Independent learning, Intellectual Independence and Reform
9/2/07 Download
John Settlage
University of Connecticut
From a Gathering of Professionals to a Community of Practice
8/29/07 Download
Matthew Smith
Bountiful Junior High School
A Middle Level/Higher Level Alliance for the Promotion of Science Inquiry and Learning: Can This Border Be Crossed?
8/28/07 Download
Sherry Southerland
Florida State University
Attempting to Shape Science Education Policy: Moving Away from the Political Toward the Epistemological
8/24/07 Download
Courtney Tucker
Emory University
Career Empowerment vs. Personal Empowerment
8/30/07 Download
Paul Vellom
Western Michigan University
Bring Elementary Majors into My Science Neighborhood
9/4/07 Download