Joel J. Mintzes - Curriculum Vitae (Abbreviated)

          Vitae (Click for Updated CV)

Personal:
 

Born: 13 December 1947 (Los Angeles, California)

Married: Susan S. Mintzes, Ed.D. UNC-CH  (Director Language Arts; Pender County Schools)

Child: Aaron L. Mintzes, A.B.,Vassar College; J.D., UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill

Education:

B.S. (1970) Biological Sciences
M.S. (1971) Biological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
Ph.D. (1974) Science Education (Biology)
Northwestern University

Professional Affiliations:

Professor of Biology and
Director of Biology Teacher Education , UNCW (1979-present)

Fulbright-Technion Fellow (2004)  Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

Visiting Scholar (2004)
Department of Ecology
Providence University, Taichung
Taiwan, Republic of China


Visiting Professor (2003)
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
National Centre for Nuclear Physics and Mathematics
Mumbai (Bombay), India


Lead Research Fellow (1998-present)
National Institute for Science Education (NISE)
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Adjunct Professor of Science Education (1994-present); NCSU

Director of Research, The Private Universe Project (1993-1996)
Science Education Department
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Cambridge, MA  

Professional Focus:

Cognition and learning in biology; constructivist epistemologies; biology education

Recent Work:

Handbook of College Science Teaching (in preparation) Co-editor, National Science Teachers Association (with W.H. Leonard)
Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG), NISE (www.wcer.wisc.edu/nise/cl1)
Assessing Science Understanding (2000) Co-editor, Academic Press (with JH Wandersee & JD Novak)
Teaching Science for Understanding (1998) Co-editor, Academic Press (with JH Wandersee & JD Novak)
The Private Universe Project (1996) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Knowledge restructuring in the life sciences
Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior in Marine, Environmental and Conservation Biology




Editorial Boards:

Journal of Research in Science Teaching (1990 - 1994)
Science Education (1993 - 2002)
Journal of College Science Teaching (2003- )


Sample Publications:

Barney, E., Mintzes, J and Yen, C-F. (2005).  Assessing knowledge, attitudes and behavior toward charismatic megafauna:  The case of dolphins.  Journal of Environmental Education, 36 (2):  41-57.

• Quinn, H., Mintzes, J. & Laws, R. (2003).  Successive concept mapping. Journal of College    Science Teaching, 33 (3):12-17.

•           Mintzes, J.J., Wandersee, J.H. & Novak, J.D. (Eds.) Assessing Science Understanding.  San Diego:  Academic Press, Inc (2000).

• Mintzes, J.J., Wandersee, J.H. & Novak, J.D. (Eds.) Teaching Science for Understanding Human Constructivist View. San Diego: Academic Press, Inc. (1998).
• Mintzes, J.J., Wandersee, J.H. & Novak, J.D. (1996). Meaningful learning in science: The human constructivist perspective. In G.D. Phye, Ed., Handbook of Academic Learning.  San Diego: Academic Press, Inc.
• Minds of Our Own. A three-part broadcast television (PBS/BBC) mini-series focusing on cognition and learning in the natural sciences. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Annenberg CPB Math and Science Project, the Smithsonian Institution and Harvard University. A project of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (M.H. Schneps, Project Director; P. Sadler, Chair, Department of Science Education).
• Mintzes, J.J., Wandersee, J.H. and J.D. Novak (2001).  Assessing understanding in biology.  Journal of Biological Education, 35 (3):  118-124.
• Thompson, T.L. and Mintzes, J.J. (2002).  Cognitive structure and the affective domain:  On knowing and feeling in biology.  International Journal of Science Education, 24 (6): 645-660.
• Martin, B.L., Mintzes, J.J. & Clavijo, I. (2000).  Restructuring knowledge in biology:  Cognitive processes and metacognitive reflections. International Journal of Science Education, 22, 3, 303-323.
• Pearsall, N.R., Skipper, J.J. & Mintzes, J.J. (1997). Knowledge restructuring in the life sciences: A longitudinal study of conceptual change in biology. Science Education, 81 (2): 193-215.
• Markham, K., Mintzes, J.J. & Jones, M.G. (1994). The concept map as a research and evaluation tool: Further evidence of validity. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 31 (1).
• Songer, C.J. & Mintzes, J.J. (1994). Understanding cellular respiration: An analysis of conceptual change in college biology. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 31 (6): 621-637.

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