The Kremen School of Education and Human Development will kick off the first of five Kremen Research Colloquium presentations at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 12. Today’s event will feature Dr. Steven Hart discussing “Service-Learning Impacts on Adolescents’ Persuasive Essay Writing.”
Hart is an associate professor in the Literacy, Early, Bilingual and Special Education Department and coordinator of the Reading master’s program at Fresno State.
The talk will examine a collected survey and writing achievement data from a group of middle school students involved in service-learning experiences. The free, public event will be in Kremen Building, room 316.
Upcoming presentations include:
- March 27–Fred Nelson, “How We See the Mirror: Science Educators’ Conceptions of and Intentions for Reflection”
- April 10–Jack Benninga, “Is Democracy Sinking? Teaching about America in American Schools”
- April 23–Juan Carlos Gonzalez and Glenn DeVoogd, “Modeling Mentoring across Race/ Ethnicity and Gender: Practices to Cultivate the Next Generation of Diverse Faculty” and “Teacher Knowledge and Critical Comprehension”
- May 6–Jason Immekus, “Interim Assessment Test Score Validity: A Multidimensional Item Response Theory Perspective”
All colloquia begin at 4 p.m.
For more information contact Dr. Frederick L. Nelson, assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, at 559.278.0261.
(Copy by Ashlie Day, University Communications news assistant).
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