In 1999, she was named President and CEO of the nation's largest African American museum, the Charles H. Over the course of a ten year career, she had increasing levels of responsibility, finally serving as Director of Historic Programs. Coleman began her career as a living history interpreter at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. It is the nation's first museum to explore the story of the Civil War from three perspectives – Union, Confederate and African American. Similar to studies in the field of physics education, this research in biology education holds the promise of revealing insights into preconceptions and misconceptions in biology that can guide strategies for curriculum improvement and teaching reform.Ĭhristy Coleman is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, VA. SEPAL researchers are studying a variety of issues in biology education and science education generally, with a special emphasis on developing novel assessment tools to better understand how people from children to practicing scientists conceptualize the biological and physical world. Just like other science research groups, SEPAL asks questions, designs ways to collect evidence to address those questions and analyzes and shares the data that it collects with other researchers. Professor Tanner's research group, SEPAL: The Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory, is interested in how people learn science, especially biology, and how teachers and scientists can collaborate to make science teaching and learning in classrooms – Kindergarten through college – more like how scientists work.
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