93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

103 AB, Midwest Airlines Center

1:30 PM

COS 64-1

Experiencing Antarctica: Does field research strengthen personal and professional skills for students?
Claudia V. Garcia, The University of Texas at El Paso; Vanessa L. Lougheed, University of Texas at El Paso; William H. Robertson, The University of Texas at El Paso; Craig E. Tweedie, University of Texas, El Paso; Aaron A. Velasco, University of Texas at El Paso

1:50 PM

COS 64-2

Effectiveness 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, Pennsylvania State University; Cheryl Ann Peterson, Texas A&M University

2:10 PM

COS 64-3

Ecological 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 PM

COS 64-4

Practitioner research as a means to improve students’ scientific epistemology in an undergraduate introductory biology course
Bruce W. Grant, Widener University

2:50 PM

COS 64-5

Multiple forms of assessment to analyze undergraduate students’ understanding of evolution by natural selection
Elena Bray Speth, Saint Louis University; Diane Ebert-May, Michigan State University

3:10 PM

COS 64-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 64-6

Assessing 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 PM

COS 64-7

Is 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 PM

COS 64-8

Linking research and education: Characterizing tenure-track science education faculty positions in California State University science departments
Kathy 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, Utah Valley University; Kimberly D. Tanner, San Francisco State University

4:20 PM

COS 64-9

Are climate change and temperature increase the same? An adolescents’ view
Laura Barraza, UNAM; Natalia Ruiz-Apilanez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

4:40 PM

COS 64-10

Public 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; Tarla Peterson, Texas A&M University - College Station

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