2015 MA ASTE Conference
18 posters, 31 oral presentations (20 min per talk, includes time for questions and set-up)
Thursday
Registration
6:00 - 8:00pm
Friday
Registration
Breakfast (9 poster set-up)
Session 1
Intersession
Session 2
Break
Session 3
Lunch
Registration
Posters w/ presenters
Session 4
Break
Session 5
Intersession
Session 6
Dinner
Social
7:00 - 8:00am
7:00 - 8:00am
8:00 - 9:20am
9:20 - 9:25
9:25 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00am
11:00 -12:00
12:00 - 1:00
12:30 - 1:30
12:30 - 1:45
1:45 - 3:25
3:25 - 3:40
3:40 - 5:00
5:00 - 5:10
5:10 - 6:30
6:30 - 7:45
8:00 - 11:00
Saturday
Registration
Breakfast (8 poster set up)
Session 7
Break
Posters w/presenters
Session 8
Lunch
Business Meeting
8:00 - 8:30
7:30 - 8:30
8:30 - 9:50
9:50 - 10:05
10:05 -11:20
11:20 -12:40
12:40 - 1:30
1:30 - 3:30
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Location TBD (HE - 4 presentations)
(MDL - 4 presentations)
(ECE - 3 presentations)
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Location TBD
(HE - 5 presentations)
(Diversity - 4 presentations)
(MDL - 4 presentations)
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(ECE - 4 presentations)
(HE - 4 presentations)
FRIDAY MORNING
Session 1, 8:00 - 9:20am (Higher Ed)
Evaluation of Two-Tiered Assessment on Gene Expression for Undergraduates
Justin LeVaughn and Rebecca Krall, University of Kentucky
Adapting Instructional Approaches in a Course on Ethical Research Practices: An Instructor’s
Learning About and Responses to Changing Participant Needs
Eva Erdosne Toth, West Virginia University
The Case for Exploring Science Teacher Identity: How We Can Consider Who Novice Science
Teachers Are Expected To Be and Who They Become During Induction
Angela Webb, Louisiana State University
Teaching Chemical Equilibrium with Technology
Bharath Sampath Kumar, University of Kentucky
Session 2, 9:25 - 10:45 (MDL)
Pre-Service K-8 Teacher Attitudes and Knowledge of Evolutionary Theory
Ashley Vaughn, University of Cincinnati; Jennifer Robbins, Xavier University
Middle School STEM Career Club Pilot: Student Experiences and Future Plans
Margaret R. Blanchard, Kristie S. Gutierrez, Lauren Harper, Jason Painter, and Scott Ragan, North
Carolina State University
ECoSYSTEM: Engaging COmmunity and School for Youth in STEM
Aimee Lee Govett, East Tennessee State University
Do Eighth Grade Students in an iSTEM Cohort Perceive Science, Math, and the Field of
Engineering Differently than Traditionally Eighth Grade Students?
Vinta Angela Tiarani and Donna Farland-Smith, The Ohio State University
Session 3, 11:00 -12:00 (ECE)
iSTEM- Integrated STEM Instructional Leadership Program for In-service Teachers Grades
PreK-6
Sarah Haines, Pamela Lottero-Perdue, Robert Blake, Honi Bamberger, Christine Roland and
Virginia Anderson, Towson University
Elementary Teachers as Designers: STEM-Integrated Curriculum Design with Coaches
Justin McFadden, University of Louisville
Design, Implementation, and Outcomes of a Discipline-Based K-5 Traveling Science Outreach
Program that Engages Partnerships of Future Teachers and Future Scientists
Kerry O. Cresawn, James Madison University
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Session 4, 1:45 - 3:25 (Higher Ed)
Teachers Rove with GigaPan Technology: Zooming in on Garden-Based Learning and STEM
Teaching
Ashley N. Murphy, Melissa Luna and James Rye, West Virginia University
Are Students and Faculty on the Same Track? A Comparison of Perceptions on Effective
Teaching
Sarah Westerdale Murray and EmmaJulia Jones, Centre College
Virtual Science Labs, Will it Work?
Travis Miller and Jeffrey S. Carver, West Liberty University
Field School Fun in Your Own Backyard
DeAnn O’Toole, University of Cincinnati
The Benefits of Group Work in a General Physics Laboratory
Robert W. Arts, University of Pikeville
Session 5, 3:40 – 5:00 (Diversity)
Gender Based Effective Teaching
Karenna Kiper and Samantha Aguiar, Centre College
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Children’s Television Programming to Broaden Participation in
STEM
Sheron Mark, University of Louisville
Using Inquiry to Become a Culturally Relevant Science Teacher
Paula A. Magee, Indiana University - Indianapolis
The Impact of Collaborating with Students with Disabilities in an Inclusively-Designed Science
Methods Course
Katelyn Tagg, University of Cincinnati, Nichole Perkins, Warren County Educational Service
Center, Roger Anderson, Christopher Atchison, University of Cincinnati
Session 6, 5:10 - 6:30 (MDL)
Project-Based Investigations of Local Watersheds: From Teacher Institute to Classroom
Practice
Rebecca McNall Krall, Justin LeVaughn, and Bharath Kumar, University of Kentucky
Imbedding Probeware Technology in Science Methods Courses for Preservice Elementary
Teachers
Todd Ensign, James Rye, and Melissa Luna, West Virginia University
From Dentistry to Astronomy: A Case Study of a Middle School Astronomy Club Leader
Kathryn Williamson, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Eva Erdosne Toth, West Virginia
University
Integrating Engineering into an Urban Science Classroom
Helen Meyer, University of Cincinnati
SATURDAY MORNING
Session 7, 8:30 - 9:50 (ECE)
Development of Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Science Self-efficacy Beliefs in a Science
Content Course
Deepika Menon and Troy Sadler, Towson University
Engineering is Elementary: Implementation in STEM, STEAM and Arts Impact Schools
Trudy Giasi, The Ohio State University; Karen Irving, Kathy Malone and Vinta Tiarani, The Ohio
State University; Brandi Ferguson, South Mifflin STEM Academy K-6 School; Wanda Mays,
Berwick Alternative K-8 School; Karen King-Cavin, Duxberry Park Arts IMPACT Elementary
School
Demonstrating Understanding: Investigating First Graders’ Images and Writing in a
Carnivorous Plant Unit
Rachel E. Wilson and Leslie Bradbury, Appalachian State University
Developing Science Academic Language in Diverse Learners, Grades 3-5
Lisa A. Gross and Shanan Fitts, Appalachian State University
Session 8, 11:20 -12:40 (Higher Ed)
How to Engage and Inspire Yourself and Your Students: Promoting STEM Literacy, 21st
Century Competencies, Backward Design, and Deep Student Understanding
Linda Plevyak, University of Cincinnati
Students’ Perceptions of Their Teacher Training Program
Cindy Ghent, Lauren Lettieri and Allison Kahan, Towson University
Science of Teaching Pre-Service Teachers How to Integrate Technology into their Classrooms
Michael Esch and Christopher Atchison, University of Cincinnati
Engaging the Future through the Past, Part 2: A Look at the Initial Data
Kimberly Haverkos, Thomas More College
FRIDAY Poster Presentations (9)
From Learning to Teach to Teaching to Learn: A Longitudinal Study of a Developing Teacher
of Elementary School Science
Elisebeth Boyer, The Ohio State University
Does Engineering Camp Improve Students Perceptions of Engineering?
Melinda Matuch, Vinta Tiarini, and Donna Farland-Smith, Ohio State University
Teachers’ Beliefs, Student Learning, and the Planetarium Experience
Karen Schwarz, West Chester University
How Do Teacher View the Nature of Science Education?
Aerin W. Benavides and Catherine Matthews, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Student Epistemologies in an Intermediate Level Biology Course
Katherine Mollohan and Lin Ding, The Ohio State University
Elementary Teachers Views About Engineers and Engineering
Kathy Malone, Vinta Angela Tiarani, Karen Irving, and Trudy Giasi, The Ohio State University.
Sequential v/s Simultaneous Synthesis Problems: Effect of Mathematical Complexity on
Concept Recognition and Application
Bashirah Ibrahim, and Lin Ding, The Ohio State University
Pre-Service Teachers’ Changes In Attitude Toward Teaching Science Using The POSTT
William Thornburgh, Sherri Brown and Pam Jett, University of Louisville
How Much is Enough? The Impact of UTAs on Student Performance Over a Year-Long
General Chemistry Sequence
Stephanie B. Philipp, Hanover College; Tom Tretter, Christine Rich, University of Louisville; and
Melissa Shirley
SATURDAY Poster Presentations (8)
Characteristics of Effective Astronomy Education and Public Outreach Programs
Rommel J. Miranda, Towson University
A Psychometric Evaluation of the English Version of The Nature of Solutions and Solubility—
Diagnostic Instrument (NSS–DI Eng), Using Classical Test Theory
Mandy McCormick Smith, Capital University; Lin Ding, The Ohio State University; Kathy Cabe
Trundle, North Carolina State University
Preparing STEM Faculty for Indian Universities: OSU and AMU Collaboration Year 2
Karen E. Irving, Anil Pradhan, and Sultana Nahar, The Ohio State University
Science Autobiographies in Undergraduate Introductory Astronomy
Matthew Perkins Coppola, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
The Expanded Use of High-Impact and Non-Cognitive Educational Practices in Building
Classroom Communities in a Variety of Biology Courses
Mathys Meyer and Darla French, University of Pikeville
The UNC Charlotte 49ers Teach Program
Warren J DiBiase and David K. Pugalee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Aligning the Learning of Science with the Nature of Science in Large Lecture Classrooms
Scott A. Sander, Miami University
Where Do Physics Teachers Come From? Recruitment and Retention of Pre-Service Physics
Teachers
Ron Hermann and Cody Sandifer, Towson University