Recent Geoscience Education Research

Peer-Reviewed Journals

2012 Rodgers, J. C. III, A. Owen-Nagel, and S. Ambinakudige., 2012. A Geospatial Online Instruction Model. Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2, 7–24. [PDF]

2010 Dixon, P. G., and A. J. Kalkstein, 2010: Teaching and Learning Guide for: Climate-Suicide Relationships: A research problem in need of geographic methods and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Geography Compass, 4, 485–489. [Full Text]

2010 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2010). Virtual field exercises in the online classroom: Practicing science teachers' perceptions of effectiveness, best practices, and implementation. Journal of College Science Teaching, 39(4). [Abstract]

2010 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H.(2010). The "green" root beer laboratory. The Science Teacher, 77(2),25-28. [Abstract]

2010 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2010). Scientific caricatures in the Earth Science classroom: An alternative assessment for meaningful science learning. Science and Education. [Abstract]

2009 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2009). Our polar past: Using the history of polar exploration in the science classroom. The Science Teacher, 76(9), 47-52. [Abstract]

2009 Clary, R.M., (2009). Tried and True: How Old? Tested and Trouble-free Ways to Convey Geologic Time. ScienceScope, 33(4), 62-66. [Abstract]

2009 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2009). Amber: Use *tree tears turned to stone* to teach biology, ecology . . .and more! ScienceScope, 33(3), 22-29. [Abstract]

2009 Clary, R.M., Brzuszek, R.F., and Wandersee, J.H. (2009). Students' geocognition of Deep Time, conceptualized in an informal educational setting. Journal of Geoscience Education, 57, 275–285. [Full Text]

2009 Clary, R.M. and Wandersee, J.H. (2009). Can teachers learn in an online environment? Kappa Delta Pi Record, 46(1), 34-38.

2009 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2009). All are worthy to know the Earth: Henry De la Beche and the origin of geological literacy. Science and Education, 18, 1359-1375.

2009 Peterson, E.L. and Dewey, C.P., Balancing the Two Cultures in the Educational Supermarket. Oxford Round Table: The Two Cultures, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, England, Journal of Forum on Public Policy vol. 4 pp.37-46. INVITED

2009 Sherman-Morris, Kathleen., Morris, J., Thompson, K. (2009) Discovering Vegetation Patterns in the Owens Valley through the Use of Geospatial Technology. Journal of Geoscience Education 57(1): 64-72

2008 Brzuszek, R.F., & Clary, R.M. (2008). How big is big? The translation of the enormity of geologic time in an informal learning environment. Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, 2(4), 69-78. 

2008 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2008). Earth science teachers’ perceptions of an autonomous fieldwork assignment in a nationwide online paleontology course. Journal of Geoscience Education, 56, 149-155. 

2008 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2008). Marquee fossils: Using local specimens to  integrate geology, biology, and environmental science. The Science Teacher, 75 (1), 44-50.

2008 Clary, R.M., Wandersee, J.H., & Carpinelli, A. (2008). The great dinosaur feud: Science against all odds. Science Scope 32 (2), 34-40.

2008 McNeal K.S., Miller H.R., and Herbert B.E. 2008.  Developing non-science majors’ conceptual models of complex Earth systems in a physical geology course. Journal of Geoscience Education 56: 201-211 [Abstract]

2007 Beasley, R.W., Hamil, B., May, J., and Schmitz, D., 2007, An Experimental Exercise Used to Determine if Mississippi’s Science Framework is Adequately Preparing High School Graduates to Make Informed Decisions about Groundwater, Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, v. 52, No. 3, pp. 172-177.

2007 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2007). A mixed methods analysis of the effects of an integrative geobiological study of petrified wood in introductory college geology classrooms. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 44 (8), 1011-1035.

2007 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2007). The Pet Rock Project: Make the rock cycle come alive! 

Science Scope 31(2), 59-64.

2007 Clary, R.M., Wandersee, J.H., & Elias, J.S. (2007). Does the color coding of examination versions affect college science students’ test performance? Countering claims of bias. Journal of College Science Teaching, XXXVII, 40-47.

2007 Dewey, C.P., and Beasley, R.W., There were two paths in the forest: Teaching Geosciences in Mississippi. Oxford Round Table: Science and Faith, Exeter College, University of Oxford, England, July 2006. Journal of Forum on Public Policy, Winter 2007 Edition.
http://www.forumonpublicpolicy.com/papersw07.html#religion INVITED

2007 Wandersee, J.H., & Clary, R.M. (2007). Learning on the trail:  A content analysis of a university arboretum’s exemplary interpretative science signage system. The American Biology Teacher, 69 (1), 16-23.  

2006 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2006). A Writing template for probing students’ Geological Sense of Place. Science Education Review, 5 (2), 51-59.

2006 Clary, R. M., & Wandersee, J. H. (2006). Mary Anning:  She’s more than “Seller of sea shells at the seashore.” The American Biology Teacher, 139 (3), 153-157.

2006 Sell K.S., Herbert B.E., Stuessy C., and Schielack J. 2006. Supporting student conceptual model development of complex earth systems through the use of multiple representations and inquiry.  Journal of Geoscience Education 54: 396-407. [Abstract]

2005 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2005). Through the looking glass: The history of aquarium views and their potential to improve learning in science classrooms. Science and Education, 14, 579-596.

2005 Sherman-Morris, Kathleen (2005) Enhancing threat: Using cartographic principles to explain differences in hurricane threat perception. The Florida Geographer. vol. 36, pp. 61-83

2002 Steinberg, Philip E., Andy Walter, and Kathleen Sherman-Morris (2002) Using the Internet to Integrate Thematic and Regional Approaches in Geographic Education. The Professional Geographer 54(3) 332-348.

Books & Book Chapters

2007 Clary, R.M., & Wandersee, J.H. (2007). Great expectations: Florence Bascom  (1842 – 1945) and the education of the first generation of US women geologists. In C. Burek and B. Higgs (Eds.), The role of women in the history of geology, Bath, England: The Geological Society of London, Special Publications 281. 

2006 Wandersee, J.H., & Clary, R.M. (2006). Fieldwork:  New directions and examples in informal science education research. (pp.167-176). In J. Mintzes & W. Leonard (Eds.), NSTA handbook of college science teaching: Theory, research, & practice. Arlington, VA: NSTA Press.

2006 Wandersee, J.H., & Clary, R.M. (2006).  Interactive Historical Vignette:  The scientific endeavors of Mary Anning, the first woman paleontologist. (Chapter 34, vol. 2, pp.283-290).  In  K. Tobin (Ed.), Teaching and learning science: A handbook. Westport, CT: Praeger.

2005 Clary, R.M., Duex, T.D., Kinsland, G.L., & Lock, B.E. (2005). Geology of Louisiana, in Carlson, Plummer, & McGeary Earth Revealed (Special 6th  edition for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, R.M. Clary, Editor). McGraw-Hill. 

2005 Clary, R.M., Duex, R.D., Kinsland, G.L., & Lock, B.E. (2005). Geology of Louisiana, in Prothero & Dott Evolution of the Earth  (Special 7th edition for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, R.M. Clary, Editor). McGraw-Hill.