Komperda Research GroupCongratulations to undergraduate research team member Connor who gave a poster presentation on his senior research project “A Qualitative Analysis of the Incorporation of Research into the Classroom among STEM Faculty” at S3!
Connor developed his independent project to understand how faculty in the SDSU College of Sciences perceive the connection between their research and teaching.
The Komperda group had a great time at the Spring ACS meeting here in San Diego! Tina and Abel presented on their work with the CHIRAL and Mentored Pathways projects.
Congratulations to Abel and Nancy on their presentations at S3 this year!
Nancy presented her work on the CHIRAL project. She investigated how our codebook for identifying and classifying instruments could be used in a math education setting.
Abel presented his structural equation model using data from the Mentored Pathways S-STEM project to investigate how affective variables like science values, identity, and self-efficacy differ by groups and how they relate to pursuing science careers.
Two research team members will be presenting at the Chemistry Education Research & Practice Gordons!
Postdoctoral Scholar Dr. Jungwon Kim will give a presentation at the Gordon Research Seminar and Haley Palm will present a poster at the Gordon Research Conference. Both presentations will describe work on the Community of Inquiry project.
Regis gave a virtual seminar for the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) Spring 2023 seminar series.
A recording is available on the SABER website.
Graduate student Abel presented data from the Mentored Pathways project during a poster presentation at the virtual X-DBER conference. His work examined responses to the Scientific Values, Identity, and Self-Efficacy scale (SciVISE) survey, which was adapted from existing instruments using the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) framework. Overall data-model fit was excellent and the survey will be used to examine the impact of the Mentored Pathways program on student affective outcomes.
We had three presentations at this year’s SDSU Student Symposium (S3)!
The CHIRAL team (undergraduate students Erica, Briana, and Bryanna; graduate student Tina) presented a poster examining the relationship between student attitude and success in chemistry from papers in the CHIRAL database.
Haley presented a poster about the Community of Inquiry project and was featured in a video about the S3!
Tina presented on her dissertation research and won a President’s Award for an outstanding oral presentation! With this award Tina was invited to present her research at the California State University (CSU) Student Research Competition held in April.