Posters
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
Physics Activities for the Life Sciences (PALS), A. D. Churukian, D. L. Deardorff, L. E. McNeil, D. P. Smith, and C. S. Wallace, Physics Education Research Conference 2017, Covington, KY, July 26, 2017.
2016
A New IPLS Course at UNC – Mechanics, Energy, Thermodynamics, D. L. Deardorff, A. D. Churukian, D. P. Smith, C. S. Wallace, L. E. McNeil, American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting 2016, Sacramento, CA July 19, 2016.
A New IPLS Course at UNC – Fluids, E&M, Optics, Nuclear, A. D. Churukian, D. L. Deardorff, D. P. Smith, C. S. Wallace, L. E. McNeil, American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting 2016, Sacramento, CA July 19, 2016.
Pedagogical discipline representations that facilitate the learning of complex modern astrophysics topics, C. S. Wallace, T. G. Chambers, E. E. Prather, J. R. Kamenetzky, and S. D. Hornstein, 227th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Kissimmee, FL, January 6, 2016.
2014
Active Learning Strategies that Promote Group Problem Solving and Student Success in Large Enrollment Science Courses, E. Prather, C. Wallace, D. Milsom, K. Johns, D. Tomanek, I. Novodvorsky, G. Burd, L. Elfring, and V. Talanquer, University of Arizona Education Expo, Tucson, AZ, October 21, 2014.
University of Arizona AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Project, G. D. Burd, D. Tomanek, V. Talanquer, J. Pollard, E. Prather, C. Wallace, K. Johns, P. Blowers, L. Elfring, M. Bolger, L. Lazos, H. Tharp, E. Grubbs, and I. Novodvorsky, 20th Annual Cottrell Scholar Conference – Leading Change: Engaging Your Students, Colleagues and the Public to Transform STEM Education, Tucson, AZ, July 9-11, 2014.
Shaping and Shifting Worldviews: An Analysis of What Astro 101 Students Learned About the Role of Science in Society, S. L. Becker, D. Hirst, A. Barron-Santella, E. E. Prather, B. Mendelsohn, and C. S. Wallace, 224th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Boston, MA, June 4, 2014. Chambliss Award Winner.
A Research-Informed Approach to Teaching About Exoplanet Detection in STEM Classrooms, G. Brissenden, C. S. Wallace, E. E. Prather, W. A. Traub, W. M. Green, and A. A. Biferno, 223rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC, January 9, 2014.
Worldviews of Introductory Astronomy Students, C. Green, C. S. Wallace, G. Brissenden, and E. E. Prather, 223rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC, January 9, 2014.
2013
The California-Arizona Minority Partnership for Astronomy Research and Education (CAMPARE): Astronomy Education Research, G. E. Serna, J. Eckenrode, D. W. McCarthy, C. S. Wallace, E. E. Prather, G. Brissenden, A. L. Rudolph, and CATS, 221st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, CA, January 8, 2013.
2012
Incorporating Science and Society into the College Classroom, J. Teske, E. E. Prather, C. S. Wallace, M. Meyers, and CATS, 44th Annual Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, Tucson, AZ, October 14-19, 2012.
Lecture-Tutorial Coherency: Student-Supplied Written-Responses As Indicators of Future Success, J. Eckenrode, J. D. Welch, H. Saldivar, J. Laird, E. E. Prather, S. Cormier, C. S. Wallace, G. Brissenden, and CATS, Communicating Science: A National Conference on Science Education and Public Outreach, Tucson, AZ, August 6-8, 2012.
Incorporating Science and Society into the College Classroom, J. Teske, E. E. Prather, C. S. Wallace, M. Meyers, and CATS, Communicating Science: A National Conference on Science Education and Public Outreach, Tucson, AZ, August 6-8, 2012.
Final results from a large-scale national study of general education astronomy students’ learning difficulties with cosmology, C. S. Wallace, E. E. Prather, D. K. Duncan, and CATS, 219th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Austin, TX, January 10, 2012.
Lecture-Tutorial Coherency: Student-Supplied Written-Responses As Indicators of Future Success, J. Eckenrode, J. D. Welch, H. Saldivar, J. Laird, E. E. Prather, S. Cormier, C. S. Wallace, G. Brissenden, and CATS, 219th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Austin, TX, January 10, 2012.
2011
Final results from a large-scale national study of general education astronomy students’ learning difficulties with cosmology, C. S. Wallace, E. E. Prather, D. K. Duncan, and CATS, American Physical Society Four Corners Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October, 21, 2011.
Final results on a 2300 student study on Astro 101 students’ difficulties with cosmology: A lecture-tutorial approach, C. S. Wallace, E. E. Prather, D. Duncan, and CATS, The CU Science Education Initiate End of Year Event, Boulder, CO, May 5, 2011.
Overcoming common conceptual and reasoning difficulties in cosmology: A lecture-tutorial approach, E. E. Prather, C. S. Wallace, D. Duncan, and CATS, 217th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA, January 11, 2011.
2010
A 1700 student study on ASTRO 101 students’ difficulties with cosmology: A lecture-tutorial approach, C. S. Wallace, E. E. Prather, Doug Duncan, and CATS, Second Annual STEM Education Symposium, Boulder, CO, November 15, 2010.
Understanding and Improving students’ knowledge of cosmology: The latest results, C. S. Wallace, E. E. Prather, D. Duncan, and CATS, Cosmos in the Classroom 2010: A Hands-on Symposium on Teaching Astronomy to Non-science Majors, Boulder, CO, August 2-4, 2010.
Students’ reasoning difficulties with cosmology, C. S. Wallace, E. E. Prather, D. Duncan, and CATS, 215th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC, January 5, 2010.
Understanding students’ difficulties with cosmology, C. S. Wallace, and CATS, First Annual STEM Education Symposium, Boulder, CO, August 31, 2009.