Keith Sheppard, Ed.D.

Recent Publications

Nehm, R., Kim S. Y., & Sheppard, K. (2009). Evolutionary Subject Matter Knowledge and Advocacy for Teaching Evolution: Biology versus Non-Biology Teachers. Science Education. 93 (6) 1122- 1146.

Kelly, A. M. & Sheppard, K.  (2009). Secondary School Physics Availability in an Urban Setting: Issues Related to Academic Achievement and Course Offerings. American Journal of Physics. 77 (10) 902-906.

Sheppard, K. & Robbins, D. M. (2009). The First Physics First Movement, 1880-1920. The Physics Teacher. 47 (1) 46-50.

Kelly, A. M.  & Sheppard, K.  (2008). Newton in the Big Apple: Access to High School Physics in New York City. The Physics Teacher. 46 (5) 280-284.

Wefer, S. & Sheppard, K. (2008). Bioinformatics in High School Curricula: A Study of State Science Standards. CBE-Life Sciences Education. 7 (1) 155-162.

Sheppard, K. & Robbins D. M. (2007). High School Biology Today: What the Committee of Ten Actually Said. CBE-Life Sciences Education. 6 (3) 198-202.

Stroud, N., Groome, M., Connolly, R. & Sheppard, K. (2007). Toward a Methodology for Informal Astronomy Education Research. Astronomy Education Review 5 (2) 1-13. [Reprinted in The Planetarian 37 (3) 20-25 (September 2007)].

Sheppard, K. (2006). High School Students’ Understanding of Titrations and Related Acid-Base Phenomena. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 7 (1) 32-45.

Sheppard, K. & Robbins D. M. (2006). Chemistry: The Terminal Science? The Impact of the High School Science Order on the Development of U.S. Chemistry Education. Journal of Chemical
Education. 83 (11) 1617-1620.

Sheppard, K. & Horowitz, G. (2006). From Justus von Liebig to Charles W. Eliot: The Establishment of Laboratory Work In U.S High Schools and Colleges. Journal of Chemical Education. 83 (4) 566-570.

Sheppard, K. & Robbins, D. M. (2006). Biology First: A History of the Grade Placement of High
School Biology. American Biology Teacher. 68 (7) 86-90.

Connolly, R., Groome, M., Sheppard, K. & Stroud, N. (2006). Tips From the Field: Advice from Museum Experts on Making the Most of Field Trips. The Science Teacher. 73 (1) 42-45.

Waldron, A. M., Sheppard, K., Spencer, D. & Batt, C. (2005). Too Small to See: Educating the Next Generation in Nanoscale Science and Engineering. In C. Kumar, J. Hormes, & C. Leuschner (Eds.), Nanofabrication Towards Biomedical Applications: Materials and Methods. pp.275-289. Wiley: London.

Sheppard, K. & Robbins D. M. (2005). Chemistry: the Central Science? The History of the High School Science Sequence. Journal of Chemical Education. 82 (4) 561-567. Reprinted in B. S. Stern and M. L. Kysilka (Eds.) Contemporary Readings in Curriculum. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks CA.

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