Publications

Urban-Lurain M, Moscarella RA, Haudek KC, Giese E, Merrill JE, Sibley DF. Insight into student thinking in STEM: Lessons learned from lexical analysis of student writing. NARST Annual International Conference. 2010;83.

Lyons C, Merrill JE, Urban-Lurain M. Beyond Multiple Choice: Heterogeneous Thinking About Photosynthesis is Revealed by Automated Analysis of Student Writing [Poster]. In: Stem Education Day. Michigan State University; 2010.

Urban-Lurain M, Moscarella RA, Haudek KC, Giese E, Sibley DF, Merrill JE. Beyond multiple choice exams: Using computerized lexical analysis to understand students conceptual reasoning in STEM disciplines. Frontiers in Education. 2009;39. http://fie-conference.org/fie2009/papers/1195.pdf.

Haudek KC, Moscarella RA, Urban-Lurain M, Merrill JE, Sweeder R, Richmond G. Using lexical analysis software to understand student knowledge transfer between chemistry and biology. National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference. 2009.

Giese E, Sibley DF. Students' analogies as instructional and assessment tools in earth systems science. In: The Geological Society Of America Annual Meeting. Portland, OR; 2009.

Haudek KC, Moscarella RA, Urban-Lurain M, Merrill JE. Computer Scoring of Essay Questions [Poster]. In: Biology Leadership Conference. Michigan State University; 2009.

Phillis R, Barlow JZ, Fitzgerald J. Creating Reasoning Problems for In-Class Learning. The American Biology Teacher. 2009;71. doi:10.1662/005.071.0405.

Moscarella RA, Urban-Lurain M, Merritt B, et al. Understanding undergraduate students conceptions in science: Using lexical analysis software to analyze students constructed responses in biology. NARST 2008 Annual International Conference. 2008.

Smith MK, Wood WB, Knight JK. The genetics concept assessment: A new concept inventory for gauging student understanding of genetics. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2008;7:422-430. doi:10.1187/cbe.08-08-0045.