Mentoring
In recent years, I have had the privilege to mentor several outstanding undergraduate and graduate students:
Fall 2017 - Summer 2018
Fall 2017 - Summer 2018
- Brianna Montoya, Department of Physics & Astronomy
- Brianna co-developed and tested the first version of our IPL2S curriculum and served as a Head Learning Assistant during our pilot semester in Spring 2018. She also conducted qualitative observational research in our pilot semester IPL2S courses, investigating how students engaged in data analysis practices while engaging their own experimental agency. Brianna is now a graduate student at the University of Maryland.
- Adrian Adams, Department of Physics & Astronomy Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
- Developed and piloted an open-response task assessment designed to investigate undergraduate students' reasoning with experimental data-based actions/processes. Adrian joined the University of Utah as a graduate student in the Department of Educational Psychology in Fall 2020.
- Liam Clancy, Physics & Astronomy REU
- Liam was an integral part of our team's efforts to quickly redesign our IPL2S laboratory curriculum for a fully remote/virtual learning environment. He developed and tested curricular materials based on DBER best-practices which were used throughout the 2020-2021 academic year instruction. Liam also analyzed how students in our IPL2S courses engaged in Crosscutting Concepts (CCC), one of the three pillars of Three-Dimensional Learning (3DL).
- Adrian Adams, Graduate Student, Department of Educational Psychology
- Adrian joined the University of Utah as a graduate student in Fall 2020 and continued their work focusing on how students engage in data-based actions in physics laboratory environments. Their recent work has begun investigating students' decision-making and reasoning while engaging in data cleaning, an integral but understudied scientific process in laboratory settings.
- Morgan Adams and Molly Griston, Physics & Astronomy REU
- Morgan and Molly are currently jointly working to investigate how undergraduate students engage in productive strategies to construct graphical representations in physics laboratory courses and use these representations to sense-make about scientific phenomena.