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Doris B. Ash

Doris B. Ash   
    Title:  Associate Professor of Education
    Specialization:  Math and Science Education
    Email:  dash5@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-5549 Office
    Office:  Social Sciences 1, 251
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009 Quarter: Wednesdays 3:00-4:30 & By Appointment
    Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~dash5/

Education History 
Ph.D., Mathematics, Science, and Technology
University of California, Berkeley

Courses Taught 
EDUC 60 Introduction to Education
EDUC 185C Introduction to Teaching Science
EDUC 230 Science Education: Research and Practice
EDUC 282 Informal Learning in Sciences and Mathematics
EDUC 284 Gender in Mathematics and Science Education

Research Focus 
Science learning in and out of classrooms, discourse and learning in informal (museum, aquarium, zoo) science environments, formative assessment as professional development, sociocultural theories of learning and teaching.

Selected Publications 

Dialogic Inquiry in Life Science Conversations of Family Groups in a Museum. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, in press.

Negotiation of Biological Thematic Conversations in Informal Learning Settings. I. G. Leinhardt, K. Crowley, and K. Knutson (Eds.), Learning Conversations in Museums. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, in press.

The Process Skills of Inquiry. Foundations, Vol. 2, Inquiry: Thoughts, Views, and Strategies for the K-5 Classroom. Washington, D. C.: National Science Foundation, 2000, 51-62.

Setting the Stage for Inquiry. Foundations. Vol. 2, Inquiry: Thoughts, Views, and Strategies for the K-5 Classroom. Washington, D. C.: National Science Foundation, 2000, 63-70.

Inquiry in the Informal Learning Environment. With C. Klein. In J. Minstrell and E. Van Zee (Eds.), Teaching and Learning in an Inquiry-based Classroom. Washington, D. C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999.

Learning to Listen to Robert. In J. Shulman, R. Lotan, and J. A. Whitcomb (Eds.), Groupwork in Diverse Classrooms: A Casebook for Educators. New York: Teachers College Press, 1998.

The Development of Science Learning Abilities in Children. With A. L. Brown, J. C. Campione, and K. Metz. In A. Burgen and K. Harnquist (Eds.), Growing up with Science: Developing Early Understanding of Science. London: Jessica Kingsley Publisher and Academia Europaea, 1997.