Publications by Year
The work of the CREATE Institute is to Innovate, Investigate, and Inform. We are pleased to share with you some of our academic publications and other recent efforts to disseminate important developments and research to the broader community. Some publications may be downloadable directly from us, while others may be accessed through the Journal publisher provided in the links. Please feel free to contact the author(s) if you have specific questions about any of the work listed here.
2017
. (2017). Testing the Impact of Situational Features on Measures of Biology Students' Genetics Understanding. In National Association for Research in Science Education (NARST) 2017 Annual International Conference.
. (2017). Longitudinal Learning Dynamics and the Conceptual Restructuring of Evolutionary Understanding. In National Association for Research in Science Education (NARST) 2017 Annual International Conference.
. (2017). Using Machine Learning to Explore Student Thinking in Constructed Responses – An Example of Enzyme Binding Structure and Function. In American Society for Microbiology Conference on Undergraduate Education.
. (2017). Towards meaningful scores: Development and validation of analytic rubrics for diagnostic purposes. In Society for the Advacement of Biology Education Research National Conference.
. (2017). What Motivates Biology Instructors To Engage and Persist in Teaching Professional Development?. CBE-Life Sciences Education. doi:10.1187/cbe.16-08-0241
CBE Life Sci Educ-2017-McCourt-.pdf (964.34 KB) . (2017). Under What Conditions do Situational Features Impact Measures of Students' Genetic Understanding?. Science & Education.
. (2017). Practicing What We Preach: Assessing "Critical Thinking" in Organic Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education, null. doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00335
Practicing What We Preach.pdf (1.48 MB) . (2017). Qualitative Analysis of Undergraduate Students'Wrting of the Origin of Genectic Variation. Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences.
. (2017). Undergraduate students’ understanding of the origin of genetic variation: insights from the automated analysis of constructed responses. University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum.
. (2017). Exploring Students’ Ideas of the Origin of Genetic Variation. CREATE for STEM Mini-Conference.
. (2017). Enzyme Structure and Function: Comparing Student Responses to Multiple Question Versions. CREATE for STEM Mini-Conference.
. (2017). Computerized Scoring of Student Open Response Questions: A Case Study of Enzyme Structure and Function. Society for the Advacement of Biology Education Research National Conference.
. (2017). Computerized Scoring of open response questions: A case study of enzyme structure and function. University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum.
. (2017). Prevalent Student Conceptions Involving Structure-Function Relationships in Cell Membranes. Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences.
. (2017). A method for analyzing and visualizing project teamwork. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters Conference.
. (2017). Scholarly Teaching.