I am currently involved in a number of research projects:

1) 2010-2011: Investigation of the use of electronic response system (clickers) educational technologies in science methods courses for  elementary pre-service teachers and its impact on students’ views of the nature of science. This project is sponsored by the UBC Faculty of Education Seed Development Grant. A graduate student (Ms. Kshamta Hunter) is working with me on the project. For more information click here.

2) 2010-2011: Investigation of the educational technology use in UBC Teacher Education Program. This project is sponsored by UBC Center for Teaching Learning and Technology (CTLT) grant. A graduate student Ms. Mahtab Eskandari is working with me on this project. We are working on developing an instrument that will help us understand how educational technologies are used in teacher preparation and what are the reasons they are used or not used and of course what their effect it.

3) The study of student epistemologies and the effect of collaborative group exercises and reflective writing in introductory physics course on student epistemologies and their views of the nature of science. I collaborate on this project with a number of colleagues from all across Canada (Montreal, Toronto, etc.). The project is sponsored by SSHRC and the PI of the project is Prof. Calvin Kalman from Concordia University in Montreal. I lead the Vancouver part of the project collaborating with a number of physics educators here (one of them is Prof. Robin Mcqueen from Langara College).