COS 41
Education: Research And Assessment

Tuesday, August 6, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
L100E, Minneapolis Convention Center
1:30 PM Cancelled
1:50 PM
 Practice does not make quite perfect but does build student confidence in oral communication Skills
Romi L. Burks, Southwestern University; Eleanor J. Sterling, American Museum of Natural History; Ana Luz Porzecanski, American Museum of Natural History; Nora Bynum, American Museum of Natural History; Adriana Bravo, American Museum of Natural History; Denny S. Fernandez, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao; Tom A. Langen, Clarkson University; Joshua Linder, James Madison University
2:10 PM
 The fractured lab notebook: Undergraduates are not learning ecological data management at top US institutions
Carly Strasser, University of California Office of the President; Stephanie Hampton, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
2:50 PM
 Project TRUE – Teens Researching Urban Ecology: invertebrate biodiversity of the Prospect Park Zoo, NYC
Jason M. Aloisio, Fordham University; Karen Tingley, Wildlife Conservation Society; James D. Lewis, Fordham University; Amy R. Tuininga, Montclair State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Carbon-transforming processes inquiry learning progression
Jenny M. Dauer, Michigan State University; Charles W. (Andy) Anderson, Michigan State University
3:40 PM
4:00 PM Cancelled
 Longitudinal study on the change in student attitudes in a biology program
Malin J. Hansen, University of British Columbia; Gulnur Birol, University of British Columbia