Lisa Kenyon
Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Wright State University
United States of America
Biography
Education History: 2003-2005 Northwestern University, Postdoctoral Fellow (Center for Curriculum Materials in Science) 1998-2003 University of Houston, Ed.D. Curriculum and Instruction-Science Education 1994-1997 Texas A&M University, M.S. Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences 1987-1992 University of Missouri-Kansas City. B.S. Biology
Research Interest
His research focuses on student learning and teaching about scientific practices in K-12 and teacher education. He is currently involved in a collaborative NSF funded project called Supporting Scientific Practices in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms with Northwestern University, Michigan State, and University of Wisconsin at Madison. The project has two goals (a) To develop an integrated learning progression that articulates how argumentation, modeling and explanation work together and can build incrementally over time. We examine these practices across different scientific disciplines at both elementary and middle school grade bands, and (b) To conduct longitudinal studies of students’ performances and understandings in scientific practices to investigate how students can develop these performances and understandings incrementally over time.
Publications
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Todd, A. & Kenyon, L. (2016). How do Siamese cats get their color? Science Teacher, 83: 29-33.
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Berland, L.K., Schwarz, C.V., Krist, C ., Kenyon, L., Lo, A., & Reiser, B.J. (2016). Epistemologies in practice: Making scientific practices meaningful for students. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 3: 1082-1112.
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Todd, A. & Kenyon, L. (2016). Empirical refinements of a molecular genetics learning progression: The molecular constructs. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 53: 1385-1418
