News

NSF News 03/18/2010
Science Inquiry Tools Deliver Significant Improvement in Middle-school Students' Skills
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116652&org=NSF&from=news

LSU Highlight 03/18/2010
Researchers’ Science Inquiry Tools Deliver Significant Improvement in Middle School Students’ Skills
http://www.lsu.edu/highlights/2010/03/studentskills.shtml

PTI project indexed in Research Crossroad
http://www.researchcrossroads.org/index.php?view=article&id=50%3Agrant-details&option=com_content&Itemid=37&grant_id=3475615

LSUWire 01/09/2007
LSU Professors Receive Grant to Improve Middle School Science Skills
http://www.lsu.com/UNV002.NSF/(NoteID)/FBB01F3E08A0A8B48625725E006E55E7?OpenDocument

Pulications and Conference Presentations

Lou, Y., Blanchard, P. & Carnaggio, J. (2009). Design, Development and Evaluation of Pathways to Inquiry - Earth Science: An Inquiry Skill Analyzer and Activities Portal. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2009 (pp. 3301-3309). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Availabe at http://www.editlib.org/p/31953.

Blanchard, P. & Lou, Y. (2009). Pathways to Inquiry – Earth Science: Online tools to strengthen classroom understanding and integration of science inquiry skills. National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual International Conference (NARST) Proceedings, April 17-21, 2009, Garden Grove, CA.

Blanchard, P. & Lou, Y. (2009, March). Pathways to Inquiry: Assessing and Teaching Inquiry Skills in Earth Science. Paper presented at the National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, March 19-22, 2009, New Orleans, LA.

Blanchard, P., Glusman, G, Nixon, B., McDonald, J., and Tucker, L. (2009, March). Convincing the Policy Makers: The Research Behind Effective Inquiry-based Science Learning in K-16 Classrooms. Workshop presented at the National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, March 19-22, 2009, New Orleans, LA.

Lou, Y. & Blanchard, P. (2008, November). Pathways to Inquiry: Analyzing and Building Science Inquiry Skills through Evidence-Based Technology Integration. Poster presented at the Annual National Science Foundation DRK-12 PI Conference, November 12-14, 2008.

Lou, Y. & Blanchard, P. (2008, March). Developing Teacher-Friendly Science Inquiry Skills Assessment. Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference of American Educational Research Association (AERA), March 7-11, New York.

Blanchard, P. (June, 2008). LSU’s Pathways to Inquiry: Putting inquiry integrated with content into practice for middle school Earth science teachers. Project Wet Coordinators Conference, June 18, New Orleans, LA.

Lou, Y. & Blanchard, P. (2007). Pathways to Inquiry: Science Inquiry Skills Analyzer and Activity Portal. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007 (pp. 3653-3658), Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Available at http://www.editlib.org/toc/index.cfm?fuseaction=Reader.ViewAbstract&paper_id=25901

Blanchard, P. & Lou, Y. (2007, November). Pathways to Inquiry: Assessing and teaching inquiry skills in earth science. Workshop presented at the 2007 Louisiana Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting (LSTA), Lafayette, LA.

Blanchard, P. & Lou, Y. (2007, October). Pathways to Inquiry: Online tools for earth science professional developers and teachers to assess and integrate science as inquiry into earth science teaching, paper presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Lou, Y. & Blanchard, P. (2007, September). Pathways to Inquiry: Analyzing and Building Science Inquiry Skills through Evidence-Based Technology Integration. Poster presented at the Annual National Science Foundation DRK-12 PI Conference, September 9-11, Washington, D.C.

Lou, Y., Blanchard, P. B., Carnaggio, J. & Singampalli, S. (2007, August).  Design and development of Pathways to Inquiry, an Earth Science Inquiry Skill Analyzer and Activity Portal. Paper presented at the Annual International Meeting of Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), August 7-10, New Orleans, LA. http://conference.merlot.org/2007/Wednesday/MERLOT07_Lou.ppt

Blanchard, P. & Lou, Y. (2006, October). Pathways to Inquiry: Earth Science Inquiry Skill Analyzer Tool & Activity Portal. Paper presented at the 2006 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.