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Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 233-242
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Her interests include exploring various measures of teaching and teachers' understanding that might be used for teacher education and education research documenting the effects of professional development on science teachers' professional knowledge and practice, and a study of the contemporary and jurisdictional battles over who should control teacher education and licensure.
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Dr. Davis is also interested in how coherent practice-based teacher education experiences support beginning elementary teachers in this learning, through the development of content knowledge for science teaching and high-leverage science teaching practices.
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His research interests include school organization, stratification, and inequality in education. He recently concluded a large-scale randomized trial, supported by the National Science Foundation, on the impact of professional development to improve teaching and learning in elementary science in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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An elected member of the National Academy of Education, she has received numerous awards, including being named a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the Frank H Klassen Award for scholarly contributions in teacher education, and the Spencer Foundation Faculty Mentor Award.
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, and she has been the research director, board member, and council member of the National Science Teachers Association. She has received the ASTE Outstanding Science Teacher Educator Award, the ASTE Mentor Award, the Journal of Research on Science Teaching Award, and she is an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow.
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Later, as a teacher educator and researcher at Michigan State University, she taught elementary school science and studied her own practice and her students' learning. She also served as director of the LessonLab Research Institute, where her research examined science teaching in classrooms.
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He also co-chairs the Aspen Urban Superintendents Network and the Working Group on School Transformation in New York City. Before joining the Annenberg Institute, he was founding director of the Philadelphia Education Fund, a local reform support organization that helped the School District of Philadelphia to fund, develop, and implement new academic standards, content-based professional development, standards-based curriculum resources, and comprehensive school reform.
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His most recent funded work by the National Science Foundation is the Mapping Clinical Experience project in which he is collaborating with multiple institutions to do analyses of the advice and information networks that teacher candidates rely on when in their school placements. He is the recipient of the 2002 AERA Presidential Award for Best Review of Research and an author of the chapter on Science Teaching in the new American Educational Research Association Handbook of Research on Teaching.
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While at BOSE, she directed studies on K-12 and undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics education, including the studies that produced the reports Successful K-12 STEM Education and Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K-12 STEM Education. As BOTA director, she oversaw the completion of projects related to assessing Next Generation Science Standards and evaluating governance reforms in the District of Columbia's public schools, and the launch of projects related to NAEP achievement levels, character education, and inter- and intrapersonal competencies in postsecondary education.
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in geology from the University of California, Davis; an M.S. in geological sciences from San Diego State University; and a Ph.D.
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