Diamonds in the Rough
Smart Kids Who Learn Differently
March 11- 13, 2010
University of Maryland
Shady Grove
9630 Gudelsky Drive
Rockville, MD 20850
Biography:
Dr. Erin Peters is an Assistant Professor in Science Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her research involves exploring interventions that explictly teach science as a way of knowing, utilizing metacognitive prompts set in a self-regulatory delivery system and teacher implementation of such methods. Her research work also examines the decisions students make when engaged in scientific inquiry and open-ended questioning, and how these decisions compare to decisions that scientists make in their work.