DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Current Students

First Year Doctoral Students 2007-2008

Melody Makeda Ledwon, Hunter College of the City University of New York BA 2007

Fifth Year Doctoral Students 2007-2008

Jill McNew, John Brown University BS 1998, Oklahoma State University MS 2000

Jill McNew’s research will combine her interests in equity and social justice in science education.  Currently she is exploring the problem of teacher attrition through interviews with teachers about their approaches to their own careers.  She is also working with the learning progression synthesis group in CISTL on developing a learning progression toward mastery of the concept of protein expression, and exploring the negotiations inherent in this process. 

Gail Emily Wolfe, University of Missouri-Columbia BA 1997, Pennsylvania State University MA 2001

Gail Wolfe’s coursework is focused in the areas of educational history, urban education, and women and gender studies.  Her research interests lie primarily in examining issues of race and gender in education through the analytic lenses of intellectual history and the history of the body.

Sixth Year Doctoral Students 2007-2008

Lisa-Anne D. Kelly, Washington University in St. Louis AB 1995, BSIM 1997, MA Ed 2000

Lisa-Anne D. Kelly’s primary research interest is science education in non-school settings such as zoos and museums.  She is currently involved in a Center for Inquiry in Science Teaching and Learning (CISTL) research project regarding professional development for science educators in informal science institutions.

Dissertations in Progess
(as of August 2008)

Lisa-Anne D. Kelly, "Towards a Research-Based Model of Professional Development for Educators in a Collections-Based Informal Science Institution"

Jill McNew, "The Impacts of Lead Contamination on the Community of Herculaneum Missouri"

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