Julie A Reynolds, Assistant Professor of the Practice  

Julie A Reynolds

Education:
PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 2001
MS, University of California at Davis, 1994
BA, Pomona College, 1990

Office Location: BioSci: 136
Office Phone: (919) 681-6899
Email Address: julie.a.reynolds@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.science-writing.org/

Office Hours:

by appointment

Specialties:
Ecology and Population Biology

Research Categories: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Science Literacy and Civic Engagement, Writing-to-learn pedagogies, Conservation Biology

Research Description:

Areas of Interest:
Writing-to-learn pedagogies in STEM disciplines
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™, iPods, iPads, FlipVideo)
Assessing learning outcomes associated with the pedagogy of Research Service Learning (RSL)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. J.A. Reynolds and R.J. Thompson, Jr., Want to Improve Undergraduate Thesis Writing? Engage Students and Their Faculty Readers in Scientific Peer Review, CBE - Life Science Education, vol. 10 (2011), pp. 209–215  [abs].
  2. Richard Goldberg, Kevin Caves, and Julie Reynolds, Improving the quality of writing in a capstone engineering design course, Proceedings of the ASEE National Conference (2011), American Society for Engineering Education [fetch]  [abs].
  3. Julie Reynolds, Amanda Curtin, Ahrash Bissell, and Paula Lemons, A writing-to-learn exercise to promote critical thinking in a large introductory biology course (2011)  [author's comments].
  4. Julie A. Reynolds and Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Learning In Versus With the Community: Building Social Capital and Promoting Public Understanding of Science through the Pedagogy of Service-Learning (2011)  [author's comments].
  5. F. Stuart Chapin, III, Mary E. Power, Steward T. A. Pickett, Amy Freitag, Julie A. Reynolds, Robert B. Jackson, David M. Lodge, Clifford Duke, Scott L. Collins, Alison G. Power , and Ann Bartuska, Earth Stewardship: Science for action to sustain the human-earth system, Ecosphere, vol. 2 no. 8 (2011), pp. Article 89 .

Curriculum Vitae

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