| A Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Marcia Linn researches the teaching
and learning of science and technology. She investigates how
students integrate scientific ideas and studies how technological
learning environments can help students develop cohesive and
coherent scientific knowledge. Marcia Linn has also done innovative
work on how gender roles influence the views students construct
of themselves.
Her many honors include her recent election
to the board of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. From 1995-96 she was a fellow at the Center
for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In 1994,
the National Association for Research in Science Teaching
presented her with its Award for Lifelong Distinguished
Contributions to Science Education. The American Educational
Research Association bestowed on her the Willystine Goodsell
Award in 1991 and the Women Educator's Research Award in
1982. Twice she has won the Outstanding Paper Award of the
Journal of Research in Science Teaching (1975 and 1983).
She has served on the Graduate Record Examination Board
of the Educational Testing Service, headed the board of
the McDonnell Foundation Cognitive Studies in Education
Practice, and serves on the steering committee of the Third
International Mathematics and Sciences Study and on the
board of the National Center For Science Education.
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Dr. Sherry Hsi, a post-doctoral scholar with Center for Innovative Learning
Technologies at the Concord Consortium, has interdisciplinary expertise in
science education, teacher development, and engineering design. Her
background lies in designing technology to facilitate productive
interactions that lead to deeper inquiry, explanation, and reflection.
Sherry's current research focuses on designing social contexts and
activities for learning with the Internet, hand-held computers, and digital
sensors. Her prior work involved the design of middle school science
curricula and electronic discussion to support equitable science
discussions for the Computers as Learning Partner and Knowledge Integration
Environment projects. Sherry has been involved with the design, evaluation,
and delivery of online teacher professional development with both the
Virtual High School Cooperative and science education programs at the Los
Alamos National Laboratory. She also promotes equity in learning and
technology design, recently providing recommendations to the AAUW Education
Foundation's Year 2000 report on gender, learning, and technology.
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