Dr. Louis Nadelson joined the faculty of Boise State University as an Assistant Professor in the College of Education in 2008. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 2007 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Before coming to Boise he taught at the college level at the University of Florida in Orlando, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, and has experience as a secondary teacher in math, science, and Upward Bound. Dr. Nadelson's research interests include STEM Education, inquiry curriculum and instruction, conceptual change, teacher change and instructional practices, and cultural influences on learning. He is an active presenter at conferences at both the local and national levels.
Articles
Student Attitudes Toward and Recall of Outside Day: An Environmental Science Field Trip (with J. Richard Jordan), Journal of Educational Research (2012)
Field trips are effective because they situate learning and facilitate knowledge transfer, thereby influencing students...
i-STEM Summer Institute: An Integrated Approach to Teacher Professional Development in STEM (with Anne Seifert, Amy J. Moll, and Brad Coats), Journal of STEM Education: Innovation and Outreach (2012)
The importance of STEM education to societal developments provides justification for assuring K–12 teachers are...
Developing a Life Skills Evaluation Tool for Assessing Children Ages 9-12 (with Kristina L. Luckey), Journal of Youth Development (2011)
Efforts that attend to the developmental needs of children, enhance their capacity to learn, and...
A Comparison of Two Engineering Outreach Programs for Adolescents (with Janet M. Callahan), Journal of STEM Education (2011)
There is continued growth and development of outreach programs designed to increase pre-college students’ awareness...
Bridging Research and Practice: Research Summaries for Science Educators (with Julie Luft and Kathryn Scantlebury), NSTA Reports (2010)
The article offers information on the implication of the research summaries intended for the Science...
Contributions to Books
Science and Religion: Ontologically Different Epistemologies? (with Gale M. Sinatra), Epistemology and Science Education: Understanding the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Controversy (2010)
Presentations
STEM Pipeline: Inspiration to Occupation, Beyond the Blue Faculty Podcasts, Boise State University (2012)
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) has entered the public realm as a major topic...
Connecting Science with Engineering: Using Inquiry and Design in a Teacher Professional Development Course (with Patricia Pyke, Janet Callahan, Anne Hay, Joshua Pfiester, and Mark A. Emmet), 118th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (2011)
The engineering design process has evolved over time to be the central and effective framework...
Living in a Materials World: Materials Science and Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Educators (with Amy Moll and Anne Louise Seifert), 118th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (2011)
Advances in materials science are fundamental to technological developments and have broad societal impacts. For...
Teaching Inquiry-Based STEM in the Elementary Grades Using Manipulatives: A SySTEMic Solution Report (with Anne Hay, Pat Pyke, Janet Callahan, and Cheryl Schrader), ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (2010)
Young learners come to school holding myriad conceptions about how the world works, particularly in...