Gunckel, K., Moreno, D., Tan, S., MacPherson, A., Dozier, S., & Morell, L. Examining the crosscutting concept of patterns: An initial construct map in the context of ecosystems A poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, April 2022.
Hammerness, K., MacPherson, A. et al. Informal Science Institutions and Equity: Taking this Moment to Act with Justice. A poster session to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 2022.
Wilson, M., Suksiri, W., Morell, L., Osborne, J., MacPherson, A., & Dozier, S. Investigating measurement invariance of a complex academic practice across different subject areas. A paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, April 2022.
Wilson, M., Suksiri, W., Morell, L., Osborne, J., MacPherson, A., & Dozier, S. Relationship between measures of “21st century skills” and the content underlying them. A paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, April 2022.
MacPherson, A, Howes, E, Hammerness, K, Abowd, N, Gupta, P, & Kinzler, R. Working on the Practice of Eliciting and Working with Students' Ideas in a Museum Setting. A poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Virtual), April 12, 2021.
Dozier, S, MacPherson, A, Morell, L, Suksiri, W, Wilson, M, & Osborne, J. Uncovering Students’ Developing Understanding of Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems. A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (Virtual), April, 2021.
Chaffee, R, Gupta, P, Hammerness, K, Podkul, T, MacPherson, A, Chavez-Reilly, M, Anderson, K., Princiotta, D, Saucedo, D. Supports and Challenges during Educational Crisis: Examining the Impact of the Pandemic on Youth Pathways. A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (Virtual), April 2021.
Lyu, X and MacPherson, A. Students’ use of Science Concepts in Generating Scientific Explanations. Accepted to the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (April, 2020, cancelled).
Lyu, X and MacPherson, A. Incorporate Science Concepts in the Process of Generating Scientific Explanations. Accepted to the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (March, 2020, cancelled)
MacPherson, A, & Hammerness, K. Exploring Ambitious Science Teaching in a Museum. Poster presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Baltimore, MD.
MacPherson, A, Chavez-Reilly, M, & Hammerness, K. Explaining the Advantage in Ur- ban Advantage. Poster presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Toronto, Canada.
Hammerness, K, MacPherson, A, Chavez-Reilly, M, Roditi, H, Weinstein, M, & Curtis- Bey, L. Supporting and sustaining productive Research-Practice Partnerships in STEM: The development of a 13-year RPP involving school district, cultural institutions, and university participants. Presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York, NY.
MacPherson, A, Chavez-Reilly, M, Hammerness, K. Professional learning in Urban Advantage and the development of core science teaching practices. Presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Atlanta, GA.
MacPherson, A. Disruptions in Ecosystems: NGSS-designed curriculum unit and assessments for middle school students. Presentation at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), Portland, OR.
Menge, DNL, MacPherson, A, Bytnerowicz, TA, Quebbeman, AW, Schwartz, NB, Taylor, BN, & Wolf, AA. Logarithms are useful but misleading for data presentation. Presentation at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), Portland, OR.
MacPherson, A. Developing assessments for an NGSS-designed middle school ecosystems unit. Paper presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), San Antonio, TX.
MacPherson, A. Measuring students’ understanding of science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts through an embedded assessment system. Paper presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Baltimore, MD.
MacPherson, A. Measuring High School Students’ Ability to Construct and Critique Arguments in Ecology. Paper presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Chicago, IL.
MacPherson, A. Developing an assessment of argumentation in ecology. Presentation given at the 2015 REASON Spring School, Munich, Germany, March 4-7.
Henderson, JB, Osborne, J, MacPherson, A &, Szu, E, Friend, M, Wild, A. IRT Analysis of Items Probing a Unidimensional Learning Progression for Argumentation of Increasingly Complex Structure. Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Pittsburgh, PA.
Osborne, JF, Henderson, JB, MacPherson, A & Szu, E. Building a Learning Progression for Argumentation in Science. Fall 2013 Conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. Washington DC, Sept 27-28.
Osborne, J, Henderson, JB, MacPherson, A & Szu, E. Building a learning progression for argumentation in science education. Paper accepted to AERA, San Francisco, April 2013.
Osborne, J, Henderson, JB, MacPherson, A & Szu, E. Developing assessment for a learning progression in argumentation: lessons learned. Paper accepted to NARST, Puerto Rico, April 2013.
Osborne, J, Henderson, JB, MacPherson, A & Szu, E. Assessing Scientific Argumentation by Middle School Pupils and Testing a Learning Progression for Argumentation. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, B.C., April 2012.
MacPherson, A & Osborne, JF. There’s more to science than recall: an analysis. Presentation at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Indianapolis, March 2012.
Hammerness, K., MacPherson, A. et al. Informal Science Institutions and Equity: Taking this Moment to Act with Justice. A poster session to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 2022.
Wilson, M., Suksiri, W., Morell, L., Osborne, J., MacPherson, A., & Dozier, S. Investigating measurement invariance of a complex academic practice across different subject areas. A paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, April 2022.
Wilson, M., Suksiri, W., Morell, L., Osborne, J., MacPherson, A., & Dozier, S. Relationship between measures of “21st century skills” and the content underlying them. A paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, April 2022.
MacPherson, A, Howes, E, Hammerness, K, Abowd, N, Gupta, P, & Kinzler, R. Working on the Practice of Eliciting and Working with Students' Ideas in a Museum Setting. A poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Virtual), April 12, 2021.
Dozier, S, MacPherson, A, Morell, L, Suksiri, W, Wilson, M, & Osborne, J. Uncovering Students’ Developing Understanding of Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems. A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (Virtual), April, 2021.
Chaffee, R, Gupta, P, Hammerness, K, Podkul, T, MacPherson, A, Chavez-Reilly, M, Anderson, K., Princiotta, D, Saucedo, D. Supports and Challenges during Educational Crisis: Examining the Impact of the Pandemic on Youth Pathways. A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (Virtual), April 2021.
Lyu, X and MacPherson, A. Students’ use of Science Concepts in Generating Scientific Explanations. Accepted to the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (April, 2020, cancelled).
Lyu, X and MacPherson, A. Incorporate Science Concepts in the Process of Generating Scientific Explanations. Accepted to the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (March, 2020, cancelled)
MacPherson, A, & Hammerness, K. Exploring Ambitious Science Teaching in a Museum. Poster presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Baltimore, MD.
MacPherson, A, Chavez-Reilly, M, & Hammerness, K. Explaining the Advantage in Ur- ban Advantage. Poster presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Toronto, Canada.
Hammerness, K, MacPherson, A, Chavez-Reilly, M, Roditi, H, Weinstein, M, & Curtis- Bey, L. Supporting and sustaining productive Research-Practice Partnerships in STEM: The development of a 13-year RPP involving school district, cultural institutions, and university participants. Presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York, NY.
MacPherson, A, Chavez-Reilly, M, Hammerness, K. Professional learning in Urban Advantage and the development of core science teaching practices. Presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Atlanta, GA.
MacPherson, A. Disruptions in Ecosystems: NGSS-designed curriculum unit and assessments for middle school students. Presentation at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), Portland, OR.
Menge, DNL, MacPherson, A, Bytnerowicz, TA, Quebbeman, AW, Schwartz, NB, Taylor, BN, & Wolf, AA. Logarithms are useful but misleading for data presentation. Presentation at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), Portland, OR.
MacPherson, A. Developing assessments for an NGSS-designed middle school ecosystems unit. Paper presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), San Antonio, TX.
MacPherson, A. Measuring students’ understanding of science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts through an embedded assessment system. Paper presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Baltimore, MD.
MacPherson, A. Measuring High School Students’ Ability to Construct and Critique Arguments in Ecology. Paper presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Chicago, IL.
MacPherson, A. Developing an assessment of argumentation in ecology. Presentation given at the 2015 REASON Spring School, Munich, Germany, March 4-7.
Henderson, JB, Osborne, J, MacPherson, A &, Szu, E, Friend, M, Wild, A. IRT Analysis of Items Probing a Unidimensional Learning Progression for Argumentation of Increasingly Complex Structure. Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Pittsburgh, PA.
Osborne, JF, Henderson, JB, MacPherson, A & Szu, E. Building a Learning Progression for Argumentation in Science. Fall 2013 Conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. Washington DC, Sept 27-28.
Osborne, J, Henderson, JB, MacPherson, A & Szu, E. Building a learning progression for argumentation in science education. Paper accepted to AERA, San Francisco, April 2013.
Osborne, J, Henderson, JB, MacPherson, A & Szu, E. Developing assessment for a learning progression in argumentation: lessons learned. Paper accepted to NARST, Puerto Rico, April 2013.
Osborne, J, Henderson, JB, MacPherson, A & Szu, E. Assessing Scientific Argumentation by Middle School Pupils and Testing a Learning Progression for Argumentation. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, B.C., April 2012.
MacPherson, A & Osborne, JF. There’s more to science than recall: an analysis. Presentation at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Indianapolis, March 2012.