Jordan Gerton
Prof. Jordan Gerton founded the Collaborative for Interdisciplinary Science Education Research (CISER) together with Prof. Lauren Barth-Cohen in the Department of Educational Psychology. CISER includes faculty from the departments of Physics & Astronomy and Educational Psychology, and includes collaborators at several other universities. CISER also includes graduate and undergraduate students from a diverse range of disciplines including Physics, Astronomy, Engineering, Education, Biology, Mathematics, etc.
Current CISER projects include:
- Forces First: Student reasoning about forces and kinematics in a reformed introductory physics course
- Thinking Quantum-ly: Making sense of "wonky" quantum by leveraging classical and mathematical intuition
- Group Sync: How teaching assistants (TAs) and learning assistants (LAs) can support sensemaking and productive social dynamics in introductory physics lab groups