Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
103 AB, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 64 - Assessment in Education
1:30 PMCOS 64-1Experiencing Antarctica: Does field research strengthen personal and professional skills for students?
Claudia V. Garcia, The University of Texas at El Paso, Vanessa L. Lougheed, The University of Texas at El Paso, William H. Robertson, The University of Texas at El Paso, Craig E. Tweedie, The University of Texas at El Paso, Aaron A. Velasco, The University of Texas at El Paso
1:50 PMCOS 64-2Effectiveness of calibrated peer review (CPR) on student learning in a web- and inquiry-based environment
Denise Celeste Robledo, Texas A&M University, X. Ben Wu, Texas A&M University, Stephanie Knight, Texas A&M University, Cheryl Ann Peterson, Texas A&M University
2:10 PMCOS 64-3Ecological literacy: The use of guided writing activities in a college biology course
Meena M. Balgopal, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Alison Wallace, Minnesota State University Moorhead
2:30 PMCOS 64-4Practitioner research as a means to improve students’ scientific epistemology in an undergraduate introductory biology course
Bruce W. Grant, Widener University
2:50 PMCOS 64-5Multiple forms of assessment to analyze undergraduate students’ understanding of evolution by natural selection
Elena Bray Speth, Michigan State University, Diane Ebert-May, Michigan State University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 64-6Assessing a non-formal science education program for GK-12 students
Annette Angelica Cardona, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, John Williams, University of Texas Marine Science Institution
3:40 PMCOS 64-7Is there a forest in Cozumel Island? Children’s knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions
Itzel Arista Cárdenas, UNAM, Laura Barraza, UNAM, Alfredo Cuaron, SACBE (Servicios Ambientales, Conservación Biológica y Educación)
4:00 PMCOS 64-8Linking research and education: Characterizing tenure-track science education faculty positions in California State University science departments
Kathy S. Williams, San Diego State University, Seth D. Bush, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, Nancy J. Pelaez, Purdue University, James A. Rudd II, California State University Los Angeles, Michael T. Stevens, California State University, Stanislaus, Kimberly D. Tanner, San Francisco State University
4:20 PMCOS 64-9Are climate change and temperature increase the same? An adolescents’ view
Laura Barraza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Natalia Ruiz-Apilanez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
4:40 PMCOS 64-10Public participation through collaboration of the Sargassum Policy Committee in Galveston Island, Texas
Amy M. Williams, Texas A&M University - College Station, Rusty A. Feagin, Texas A&M University, Urs Kreuter, Texas A&M University - College Station, Tarla Peterson, Texas A&M University - College Station

See more of Contributed Oral Papers

See more of The 93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)