Julie A Reynolds, Mellon Lecturer in Writing & Biology
Education:
PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 2001
MS, University of California at Davis, 1994
BA, Pomona College, 1990
Office Location: BioSci: 072
Office Phone: (919) 681-6899
Email Address: julie.a.reynolds@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.science-writing.org/
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday noon - 2 PM, and by appointment
Specialties:
Ecology and Population Biology
Research Categories: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Science Literacy, Community-Based Research, Citizen Science, Conservation Biology
Research Description: My research interests can be divided into two major categories: the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) and Community-Based Research (CBR)
SOTL projects
• Developing robust tools for teaching and assessing student writing (e.g., BioTAP, the Biology Thesis Assessment Protocol, which has been adapted for chemistry, engineering, economics, and literature)
• Assessing learning outcomes associated with the pedagogy of Research Service Learning (RSL)
• Assessing the extent to which biology courses promote science literacy, understanding of the nature of science, critical thinking skills, and enthusiasm for biology
• Assessing the efficacy of teaching technologies at promoting student learning (e.g., Calibrated Peer Review™ and iPods)
CBR project
• Mapping the distribution and impact of invasive plant species within the Eno River State Park. This work is a collaboration between Duke students (through DukeEngage), Citizen Scientists (through the Plant Stalkers program I created), governmental scientists, the Eno River State Park, and the Eno River Association (a nonprofit, land preservation organization).
Areas of Interest:
Formative and summative assessment of student writing
Development and assessment of new teaching strategies
Assessing critical thinking in biology courses
Assessing the effectiveness of Instructional Techonologies (including iPods, Calibrated Peer Review, Flip Videos, Voicethreads)
Promoting science literacy through engaging Citizen Scientists in research
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- Julie A. Reynolds and Meg Lowman, Civic Environmental Literacy, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (Accepted, 2009) .
- Julie A. Reynolds and Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Promoting science literacy through Research Service-Learning, an emerging pedagogy with significant benefits for students, faculty, universities, and communities, Journal of College Science Teaching (Accepted, 2009) [abs].
- Julie Reynolds, Amanda Curtin, Ahrash Bissell, and Paula Lemons, Improving critical thinking skills through quality practice and metacognition: A classroom exercise that helps students construct meaning from content (Submitted, 2009) [abs].
- Julie A. Reynolds, When communicating science to the public, use VELCRO to make science stick, Bulletin of Ecological Society of America, vol. 90 no. 3 (2009), pp. 297-304 [297] [abs].
- Julie A. Reynolds, Robin Smith, Cary Moskovitz, and Amy Sayle, BioTAP, the Biology Thesis Assessment Protocol: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Scientific Writing and Evaluating Undergraduate Theses, BioScience, vol. 59 no. 10 (2009), pp. 896-903 [abs].
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