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Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 257-264
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She is currently serving on the advisory board of the Education and Human Resources Division of the NSF, the board of the ASPB Education Foundation, and the board of the iPlant Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative board. She has served on several National Research Council (NRC)
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Her current research relates to the assessment of student learning, including chemistry concept inventories, the application of cognitive science theories and qualitative methodologies to chemistry education research, inquiry in the laboratory, and children and chemistry. With support from the National Science Foundation, she has created a series of conferences for chemistry education research graduate students.
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has directed and contributed to a wide range of studies at the National Research Council, including those on high school science laboratories, the role of state standards in K-12 education, foreign language and international studies in higher education, international labor standards, and the information technology workforce. Prior to joining the National Research Council staff, she was a consultant to the National Skill Standards Board and she directed studies of workforce training, work reorganization, and international competitiveness at the Office of Technology Assessment.
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at Irvine, where he also served as codirector of the university's joint doctoral program in education with California State University and as vice chair of the Department of Education. Before joining the UC Irvine faculty, he worked at the Division of Research at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey, where he developed new forms of computer-based testing for assessment in science, architecture, and engineering and as a program director at the National Science Foundation.
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is a senior program officer with the National Research Council's Board on Science Education, where she has also worked on other studies related to K-12 STEM education. Before joining the National Research Council, she was the director of research at the Business-Higher Education Forum, where her work focused on college readiness, access, and success, particularly in STEM, and a senior researcher at SRI International, where she conducted evaluations of a wide variety of reform efforts, including technology initiatives, after-school programs, teacher quality, data-driven decision making, youth development programs, and high school reform.
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is the deputy director of the Board on Science Education at the National Research Council (NRC) , where she has directed or co-directed several studies on K-12 science education, including the project that resulted in the NRC report, A Framework for K-12 Science Education (2012)
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He is the recipient of several awards for his scientific achievements, including the Bruce Alberts award for distinguished contributions to science education from the American Society for Cell Biology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served on National Research Council study committees.
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