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I 2014-05-24 15.45.35just finished attending my first Association for Psychological Science (APS) annual conference in San Francisco. It was wonderful to be back in the city and a great opportunity to mingle with other psychological scientists. I made some great connections with people interested in the psychology of social media and may even have an opportunity to write an Observer article about my Psychology of Social Media course.

I attended the conference to present a poster based on some of my dissertation research. Here are the details of the poster:

Relationships Between Middle-School Science Teachers’ Prior Knowledge and their Knowledge Gaps

Video-taped classroom observations and follow-up interviews documented evidence of science content knowledge gaps encountered by six early-career middle-school science teachers in three states. Results indicate that teachers’ undergraduate education, expressed confidence in their knowledge of the subject, and daily preparation to teach influenced the number of knowledge gaps they encountered during each observation

 
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APS 2014 Poster

I also got to meet Christopher Chabris, co-author of the book The Invisible GorillaPhilip Zimbardo of the Stanford Prison Experiment fame, and Mahzarin R. Banaji from Harvard who has done some amazing research on prejudice that I use in my Cultural Psych classes. Overall it was a great conference. Looking forward to next year in New York.

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Brian Kinghorn, Ph.D.

About Brian Kinghorn, Ph.D.

I earned my Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology from Michigan State University, and I’m currently an Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundations at Marshall University. My research interests include ways K–12 science teachers learn science from their own teaching practice and the impacts of educating college students on the psychology of social media.


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