News

PTI project indexed in Research Crossroad
http://www.researchcrossroads.org/index.php?view=article&id=50%3Agrant-details&option=com_content&Itemid=37&grant_id=3475615

LSUWire 01/09/2007 02:05 PM
LSU Professors Receive Grant to Improve Middle School Science Skills
http://www.lsu.com/UNV002.NSF/(NoteID)/FBB01F3E08A0A8B48625725E006E55E7?OpenDocument

LSU 2006-07 Research Annual Report
Professors Home Skills of Middle School Minds. Pathway to Inquiry project is reported in the LSU Research Annual Report. LSU Office of Research and Economic Development.

Papers and National/International/State Presentations

Blanchard, P. (June, 2008). LSU’s Pathways to Inquiry: Putting inquiry integrated with content into practice for middle school Earth science teachers. Project Wet Coordinators Conference, June 18, New Orleans, LA.

Blanchard, P., Glusman, G, Nixon, B., McDonald, J., and Tucker, L. (2009, March). Convincing the Policy Makers: The Research Behind Effective Inquiry-based Science Learning in K-16 Classrooms. Workshop presented at the National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, March 19-22, 2009, New Orleans, LA.

Blanchard, P. & Lou, Y. (2009). Pathways to Inquiry – Earth Science: Online tools to strengthen classroom understanding and integration of science inquiry skills. National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual International Conference (NARST) Proceedings, April 17-21, 2009, Garden Grove, CA.

Blanchard, P. & Lou, Y. (2009, March). Pathways to Inquiry: Assessing and Teaching Inquiry Skills in Earth Science. Paper presented at the National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, March 19-22, 2009, New Orleans, LA.

Blanchard, P. & Lou, Y. (2007, November). Pathways to Inquiry: Assessing and teaching inquiry skills in earth science. Workshop presented at the 2007 Louisiana Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Lafayette, LA.

Blanchard, P. & Lou, Y. (2007, October). Pathways to Inquiry: Online tools for earth science professional developers and teachers to assess and integrate science as inquiry into earth science teaching, paper presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Blanchard, P. & Lou, Y. (2006, October). Pathways to Inquiry: Earth Science Inquiry Skill Analyzer Tool & Activity Portal. Paper presented at the 2006 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

Lou, Y. & Blanchard, P. (2008, November). Pathways to Inquiry: Analyzing and Building Science Inquiry Skills through Evidence-Based Technology Integration. Poster presented at the Annual National Science Foundation DRK-12 PI Conference, November 12-14, 2008.

Lou, Y. & Blanchard, P. (2008, March). Developing Teacher-Friendly Science Inquiry Skills Assessment. Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference of American Educational Research Association (AERA), March 7-11, New York.

Lou, Y. & Blanchard, P. (2007). Pathways to Inquiry: Science Inquiry Skills Analyzer and Activity Portal. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007 (pp. 3653-3658), Chesapeake, VA: AACE. http://www.editlib.org/toc/index.cfm?fuseaction=Reader.ViewAbstract&paper_id=25901

Lou, Y. & Blanchard, P. (2007, September). Pathways to Inquiry: Analyzing and Building Science Inquiry Skills through Evidence-Based Technology Integration. Poster presented at the Annual National Science Foundation DRK-12 PI Conference, September 9-11, 2007.

Lou, Y. & Blanchard, P. (2007, June). Science Inquiry Skills Analyzer and Activity Portal. Paper presented at the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, June 25-29, 2007, Vancouver, Canada.

Lou, Y., Blanchard, P., Carnaggio, J. & Singampalli, S. (2007, August). Design and development of Pathways to Inquiry. Paper presented at the Annual International Meeting of Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT). August 7-10, 2007, New Orleans, LA. http://conference.merlot.org/2007/Wednesday/MERLOT07_Lou.ppt

 Lou, Y. & Blanchard, P. (2009, June). An Online Inquiry Skill Analyzer and Activities Portal: Understanding and Building Science Inquiry Skills in the Earth Science Classrooms. Paper presented at ED-MEDIA 2009-- World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, June 22-26, 2009, Honolulu, HI.