Komperda Research Group
We celebrated Tina at graduation as she became Dr. Marcroft! Tina joined the group in 2019 as we began the CHIRAL project. She has been an integral part of the success of the project from designing the database to training new team members. We wish her the best as she starts her next career stage as a self-funded NSF STEM Education Postdoctoral Fellow!
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.
Congratulations to the CHIRAL team for their publication in CERP! This paper, led by former postdoc Dr. Kat Lazenby, examined CERP papers in the CHIRAL database from 2010–2021 to see what topics were being measured and how often validity and reliability evidence were provided.
Lazenby, K., Tenney, K., Marcroft T., & Komperda, R. (2023). Practices in instrument use and development in Chemistry Education Research and Practice 2010-2021. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. doi: 10.1039/D2RP00275B
