Kristin Bass and Nisaa Kirtman are planning to attend AERA 2018 April 13–17 at the Millennium Broadway hotel in NYC. Please get in touch if you are interested in meeting! We look forward to this opportunity to connect with new and old colleagues and friends at this exciting venue.
Nisaa will be presenting a paper co-authored with Cynthia Char titled “Evaluating the Literacies in Engineering for Access and Participation (LEAP) Conference”on April 17 at 12:25 p.m. in Room 7.04. With funding from the NSF, the May 2017 Literacies in Engineering for Access and Participation (LEAP) conference brought together 40 scholars and educators in the equity, engineering, and literacy fields to develop an agenda for new research plans, collaborations, and practice in the field. The two-day conference highlighted issues of equity through practice and research on literacy learning in K-16 and informal engineering education, with a focus on learners from groups underrepresented in engineering.
That same day and time, in Room 7.02-7.03, Kristin will be presenting a paper co-authored with Dina Drits-Esser, Sheila Homburger, et al, titled “Development and Pilot Testing of an NGSS-Aligned Unit that Integrates Evolution and Heredity”. This paper describes the development and pilot test results of a Next Generation Science Standards-aligned eight-week evolution unit for ninth- and tenth-grade introductory biology students. The unit helps students build a coherent understanding of evolution through (a) inclusion of pertinent heredity core ideas; (b) analysis and interpretation of skill-level-appropriate data from published scientific research; (c) the construction of evidence-based arguments, and (d) the integration of crosscutting concepts such as patterns.