Interview testing feedback studies will employ semi-structured interviews to reveal how students use feedback in a testing environment and how this feedback may affect their learning, testing strategy or confidence. Practice and classroom testing feedback studies will examine the impact of different corrective feedback types and timings on future test performance and confidence-accuracy calibration. Continued assessment of this project and other reform projects related to improving STEM graduation rates at UWRF are supported by a 2013-2018 NSF Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) grant (DUE 1317149, PI Kahlow).Īnother project aims to generate evidence about the role of testing feedback to promote and support learning in general chemistry through four related sets of studies. This assessment project was initiated with support of a 2008 Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) NSF grant (DUE 0736504, PI Kahlow). Aspects of this project include collecting survey data using the ASCIv2 to assess student attitudes toward chemistry as they progress through a traditional course sequence of general and organic chemistry and an organic first 3-semester sequence. One project focuses on chemistry curricular reform and its affect on students as learners of chemistry. I currently have several chemistry education research projects. My scholarship is in the area of chemistry education.
Liberal Arts Chemistry Preparatory Chemistry General, Organic, Biochemistry General Chemistry II Organic Chemistry Survey Organic Chemistry I & II Guided Study in Teaching Chemistry Investigative Science I & III for Elementary Education Majors Chemical Information and Introduction to Higher Education. Winona State University, Chemistry, 1994 Courses Taught: Courses that I teach on a regular basis at UWRF:Ĭhemistry 121: General Chemistry I Courses that I have taught: TolmanĬertificate of Completion, University of Minnesota, Preparing Future Faculty, 1998ī.S.
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Bioinorganic and Organic Chemistry, 1999 Graduate Advisor: William B.