Working Papers

Streitwieser, B., & Light, G. (2010). Study aborad and the easy promise of global citizenship: Student conceptions of a contested notion. (Under review).

Ben David Kolikant, Y., Drane, D., & Calkins, S. (2009). Clickers as catalysts for transformation of both students and teachers.

Calkins, S., & Micari, M. (2009). Less-Than-Perfect judges: Forty years of discourse on the value of students rating teachers in higher education.

Micari, M., Pazos, P., Streitwieser, B., & Light, G. (2009). Small-group learning in undergraduate STEM disciplines: Effect of group type on student achievement.

Pazos, P., Light, G., Streitwieser, B., Hirsch, P., & Drane, D. (2009, April). Enhancing the early undergraduate science experience: Situated learning in the scientific community. (PDF)

Calkins, S., Light G., & Bartlam, L. (2008). Connecting senior faculty conceptions of mentoring and teaching. Presentation for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference, New York, NY. (PDF)

Light, G., Swarat, S., Park, EJ., Drane, D. (2008, July). Student understanding of "surface area to volume ratio" and its relationship to property change in the nano-science engineering context. Research on Engineering Education Symposium (REES), Davos, Switzerland. (PDF)

Light, G., & Park, E.J. (2008, June). Identifying threshold concepts in learning nano-science by using concept maps and students' responses to an open-ended survey. Threshold Concepts Conference Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. (PDF)

Light, G., & Calkins, S. (2007, April). Academic learning: Integrating faculty conceptions of research and teaching. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Annual Conference, Chicago. (PDF)

Calkins, S., & Light, G. (2007). Conceptions of mentoring among senior faculty at a research-intensive university. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Annual Conference, Chicago. (PDF)

Light, G., & Calkins, S. (2006, December). Faculty conceptions of academic practice. Paper presented at the EARLI Biennial Workshop: Phenomenography and Variation Theory: The Ways Forward, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. (PDF)