Please contact me at mforsythe@txstate.edu if you would like further information about any of the the listed projects, publications, or presentations.
Current Research
- Using Reflective Video Cases to Impact Preservice Teachers’ Science Instruction (PI)
- Collaboration with the NBPTS ScienceATLAS project
Past Research and Design Projects
- As Principle Investigator
- Investigations of the Wild: The development of middle school students’ scientific and statistical practices (PI)
- Using Video-clubs to Support Secondary Science Teacher Learning (Co-PI)
- As a Research Assistant
- Building a Pipeline of Teaching Excellence: Using video cases to support teacher professional development (with the NBPTS)
- Modeling Designs for Learning Science (MoDeLS)
Publications (Includes work published under former name of Cotterman)
- Johnson, H. (co-author), & Cotterman, M. (co-author). (2015). Developing preservice teachers’ knowledge of science teaching through video clubs. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 26(4), 393-417.
- Johnson, H., & Cotterman, M. (2013). Collaborative efforts to put the ‘E’ back in STEM. NSTA Reports, 25(4), 3.
Selected Professional Presentations (Includes work presented under former name of Cotterman)
- Cotterman, M., Lehrer, R., & Schauble, L. (2015). Sampling in the wild: How attention to variation supports middle school students’ sampling practice. National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 11-15.
- Johnson, H., & Cotterman, M. (2015). Video club as a context for shifting discourse about scientific practice. National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 11-15.
- Cotterman, M., Lehrer, R., & Schauble, L. (2014). Sampling in the wild: How attention to variation supports middle school students’ sampling practice. International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Flagstaff, AZ, July 13-18.
- Johnson, H, & Cotterman, M. (2014). “Is That a Model, Right?”: Preservice and inservice teachers’ interpretations of scientific practices during a combined video club. (Poster). National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Pittsburg, PA, March 30-April 2.
- Cotterman, M., & Johnson, H. (2013). Take ME (Mechanical Engineering) to school: Building successful partnerships between local schools and universities. National Science Teachers Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 11–14.
- Cotterman, M., & Johnson, H. (2013). Video clubs as productive sites for preservice science teachers to interrogate instructional representations. National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, April 6-9.
- Johnson, H., & Cotterman, M. (2013). Developing preservice teachers’ knowledge of teaching through video clubs. National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, April 6-9.
- Cotterman, M., Lehrer, R., & Schauble, L. (2013). Seeing difference across time and space: Implications of ecological spatiotemporal variation for students’ field practice. (Poster). National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, April 6-9.
- Cotterman, M., Lehrer, R., & Schauble, L. (2012). Seeing and modeling ecosystem functionality across aquatic ecologies. American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, April 13-17.
- Cotterman, M., Lehrer, R., & Schauble, L. (2012). The interplay between student and material agency in ecological investigations. (Poster). National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, March 25-28.
- Cotterman, M. (co-author), Manz, E. (co-author), Lehrer, R., Schauble, L., Lucas, D., & Shinohara, M. (2012). Engaging students in modeling to develop understanding of ecosystems. (Poster). National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, March 25-28.
- Cotterman, M., & Kenyon, L. (2009). Investigating how preservice elementary teachers’ understanding of scientific modeling aligns with their modeling lesson designs. (Poster). National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Garden Grove, CA, April 17-21.
- Hug B., Kenyon L., Teo T.W., Nelson M., Cotterman M., & Davis E. (2008). Promoting preservice teachers’ understanding and use of scientific modeling in teaching and learning. National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 29-April 1.
Selected Invited Talks, Presentations, and Lectures (Includes work presented under former name of Cotterman)
National
- Cotterman, M. (2015). SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction): Engaging the public in AZA’s new conservation initiative. AZADV 2015 Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, August 26-30.
Local
- Cotterman, M. (2013). Ecology education from an epistemic perspective. Epistemic Foundations of Mathematics and Science class, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, January 19.
- Cotterman, M. (2012). What’s going on in there? Students’ mental models of ecosystems. Inquiry into Education class, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, October 10.
- Cotterman M., & Smith, Z. (2012). Take ME to school: An award-winning collaboration with Peabody. Mechanical Engineering External Advisory Committee Annual Meeting. Nashville, TN, April 25.