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Dr. Renee' Schwartz | Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences3139 Wood Hall | Phone: (269) 387-5660 | FAX: (269) 387-2909 | r.schwartz@wmich.edu Professional PresentationsSchwartz, R. S. (2008, October). Investigating science through inquiry. Invited seminar, Sakarya University; Adapazari, Sakarya, Turkey. October 15. Photos of science lesson taught to sixth grade students in the middle school associated with Sakarya University. Schwartz, R. S., Lederman, N., & Lederman, N. (2008, March). An Instrument To Assess Views Of Scientific Inquiry: The VOSI Questionnaire. Paper presented at the international conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching. Baltimore, MD. March 30-April 2, 2008. Schwartz, R.S., Akom, G., Skjold, B., Hong, H. H., Kagumba, R., Huang, F. (2007, April). A change in perspective: Science education graduate students’ reflections on learning about NOS. Paper presented at the international meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, New Orleans, LA. April 15-18, 2007. Duschl, R., Schwartz, R., Zeidler, D., & Krajcik, J. (2007, April). Socioscientific inquiry, argumentation, and nature of science. Invited panel discussion. Science Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group, American Educational Researchers Association, Chicago, IL. April 9-13. Hanuscin, D., Freiderichson, P, Dass, P., Gess-Newsome, J., Schwartz, R.S., & Eason, G. (2007, January). Working in Two Worlds: Developing a Research Identity as a Joint Appointment. Symposium to be presented at the International meeting of the Association for Science Teacher Educators, Clearwater Beach, FL. January 3-6, 2007). Schwartz, R., & Burke, M. (2007, January). Reflections about inquiry teaching and student learning in the middle grades: How can we expand the comfort zone? Paper to be presented at the International meeting of the Association for Science Teacher Educators, Clearwater Beach, FL. January 3-6, 2007). Hong, H. H., Schwartz, R. S., & Holm, G. (2006, August). Korean elementary preservice teachers’ views of nature of science. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Korean Association for Research in Science Education, Gangwon National University, Korea. Schwartz,
R., & Lederman, N. (2006, April). Scientists’ epistemological views of science. Paper
presented at the annual conference of the American Educational
Research Association.
Schwartz, R. S. & Lederman, N. (2006, April). Exploring contextually-based views of nature of science and scientific inquriy: What scientists say. Paper presented as part of the paper set “Setting an empirically supported and synergistic agenda for research on nature of science,” during the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, San Francisco, CA. April 3-7. Brown, M.,
& Schwartz, R. (2006, April). Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptions of Photosynthesis and Cellular
Respiration as belonging to Systems. Paper presented at
the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science
Teaching.
Cobern, B.,
et al., (2006, Feb.). Implementation of Clinical
Trials and Experimental Research in Science Education, symposium presented
at the 2006 AAAS Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO. Schwartz, R. S. (2006,
January). Embedding NOS instruction and assessment in an
undergraduate biology course. Paper presented at the
annual conference of the Association of Science Teacher Education,
Schwartz, R.S. (2005,
October). Views of Nature of Science in
authentic context: What scientists say. Invited seminar, Purdue University Departments of Chemistry and
Chemical Education.
Schwartz,
R.S., & Lederman, N.G. (2005, April). Scientists’
views of scientific models and modeling. Paper presented as part of
the symposium “International perspectives of scientific models and modeling” at
the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association,
Schwartz,
R.S., & Lederman, N.G. (2005, April). Scientists’
views of scientific models and modeling. Paper presented as part of
the symposium “International perspectives of scientific models and modeling” at
the Annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science
Teaching,
Schwartz,
R.S., & Lederman, N.G. (2005, January). “But what do
scientists say?” Scientists’ views of nature of science. Paper presented at the Annual
meeting of the association for the Education of Teachers of science.
Schwartz,
R. S., & Lederman, N. G. (2004, April). Epistemological views in authentic science
practice: A cross-discipline comparison of scientists’ views of nature of
science and scientific inquiry. Paper presented at the annual international
meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching,
Westerlund,
F., Taylor, T., García, D., & Schwartz, R. (2004, February). Nature of science learning outcomes
of secondary teachers. Paper presented at the South West regional
meeting of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science,
Westerlund,
J., Schwartz, R., García, D., & Taylor, T. (2004, January). The effects of summer scientific research experiences
with or without nature of science instruction upon the NOS views of secondary
science teachers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for
the Education of Teachers in Science,
Westerlund,
J., García, D., Schwartz, R., & Taylor, T. (2003, October). Explicit NOS instruction and authentic science
research: Effects on teachers NOS views. Paper presented at the North Central
regional meeting of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science,
Westerlund,
J., Schwartz, R. S., Koke, J., Garcia, D., & Taylor, T. (2003, August). The effects of summer scientific research
experiences with or without nature of science (NOS) instruction upon the NOS
views of secondary science teachers. Paper presented at the meeting of the
International History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching conference,
Schwartz, R. S., Westerlund,
J., Koke, J., Garcia, D., & Taylor, T. (2003, March). Explicit/reflective
NOS instruction and authentic science research: Effects on teachers’ NOS views. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research
in Science Teaching,
Lederman, N., Abd-El-Khalick,
F.,
Schwartz,
R. S., & Crawford, B. A. (2003, January). Critical elements for teaching the nature of
science in the context of authentic scientific inquiry: Practical guidelines
for teacher educators. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association
for the Education of Teachers in Science.
Lederman,
N. G., Schwartz, R. S., Lederman, J., Matthews, L., & Khishfe, R. (2002,
April). Project
ICAN: A teacher enhancement project to promote teachers’ and students’
knowledge of scientific inquiry and nature of science. Symposium
presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in
Science Teaching,
Schwartz, R. S., Lederman, N.
G., Dekkers, P., Liu, S., Khishfe, R., Bell, R., Abd-El-Khalick, F. (2002,
April). International perspectives on research in nature
of science. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the
National Association for Research in Science Teaching,
Lederman, N. G., Schwartz, R.
S., Khishfe, R., Lederman, J., Matthews, L, & Liu, S.Y. (2002, January). Project
ICAN: A Professional Development Program for Teachers' Knowledge and Pedagogy
of Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science,
Schwartz, R. S., Lederman, N.
G., Khishfe, R., Lederman, J., Matthews, L, & Liu, S.Y. (2002, January). Explicit/Reflective Instructional Attention to
Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry: Impact on Student Learning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Education of
Teachers in Science,
Lederman,
N. G., Abd-El-Khalick, F.,
Westerlund, J., Schwartz, R.
S., Lederman, N. G., & Koke, J. (2001, March). Teachers learning about
nature of science in authentic science contexts: Models of inquiry and
reflection. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the National
association for Research in Science Teaching,
Schwartz, R. S., Lederman, N.
G., & Thompson, T. (2001, March). Grade nine students’ views of nature
of science and scientific inquiry: The effects of an inquiry-enthusiast’s
approach to teaching science as inquiry. Presentation at the Annual meeting
of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching,
Schwartz, R. S., &
Lederman, N. G. (2001, March). “I have a theory about…:” Dispelling myths
about nature of science. Workshop conducted at the annual meeting of the
National Science Teachers Association,
Abd-El-Khalick, F., Lederman,
N. G.,
Schwartz, R. S., Lederman, N.
G., Westerlund, J., Gilmer, P., Hahn, L., & Herr, N. (2001, January). Building
collaboratives for inquiry: Goals, glitches, and glue. Symposium presented
at the Annual meeting of the Association for Educators of Teachers of Science.
Schwartz, R. S., Gfeller, M.,
& Lederman, N. G. (2001, January). Nature of science and nature of
mathematics: Natural connections or strange bedfellows? Presentation at the
Annual meeting of the Association for Educators of Teachers of Science.
Schwartz, R. S., &
Palmer, N. (2000, October). Project ICAN: Inquiry, context, and nature of
science. Presentation at the Annual meeting of the Oregon Science Teachers
Association,
Schwartz, R. S. (2000,
April). The effectiveness of a science research internship on preservice
teachers’ views of nature of science. Paper presented at the annual Oregon
State University Graduate Student Conference,
Schwartz, R., Lederman, N.
G., & Crawford, B. A. (2000, April). Understanding the nature of science
through scientific inquiry: An explicit
approach to bridging the gap. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
National Association of Research in Science Teaching, April 28 -
Lederman, N.G., &
Schwartz, R.S. (2000, April). “It’s the nature of the beast:” The influence
of knowledge and intentions on nature of science learning and teaching. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association for
Research in Science Teaching.
Schwartz, R.S., Lederman,
N.G.,
Duggan-Haas, D., Roettger, E., Foster, G., Truedson, J., Yeotis, C., Schwartz, R. S., Lederman, N., Rowe, F., Adams, P. (2000, January). Science and science education collaboratives: Where we are. How we got there. Where we are going. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science, Akron, OH. Cohen, R., Foster, G., Latz,
M., Duggan-Haas, D., Liu, C.,
Schwartz, R.S., Lederman,
N.G., & Crawford, B. (2000, January). Making connections between the
nature of science and scientific inquiry: A science research internship for
preservice teachers. Presentation at
the annual meeting of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science,
Schwartz, R.S., & Lederman, N.G. (2000,
January). Nature of science and classroom instruction: A comparison of two
preservice teachers. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Association
for the Education of Teachers in Science,
Schwartz, R. S., Crawford,
B., & Lederman, N. G. (1999, March). A
science research internship for preservice science teachers: Bridging the gap
between the nature of science and scientific inquiry. Presentation at the annual meeting of the
National Association for Research in Science Teaching.
Lederman, N. G., Schwartz, R.
S., Abd-El-Khalick, F., &
Schwartz, R. S.,
Abd-El-Khalick, F., & Lederman, N. G. (1999, January). An exploratory study of the “effectiveness” of elementary science specialists. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Education of
Teachers in Science.
Lederman, N. G.,
Abd-El-Khalick, F, & Schwartz, R. S. (1998, September). The evaluation of the
Schwartz, R. S. (1993,
March). Codon and context usage controls
frameshifting at phenylalanine codons. Seminar presentation to the
Department of Biological Sciences,
Schwartz, R. S. (1993,
April). Codon and context usage controls
frameshifting at phenylalanine codons. Paper presented at the spring
meeting of the NC chapter of the American Society of Microbiology,
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