Schneider, Jamie

Jamie Schneider

Professor

Chemistry and Biotechnology
Office: 257 Centennial Science Hall
Phone: 715-425-4590

Email: jamie.schneider@uwrf.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Bioinorganic and Organic Chemistry, 1999 Graduate Advisor: William B. Tolman

Certificate of Completion, University of Minnesota, Preparing Future Faculty, 1998

B.S. Winona State University, Chemistry, 1994

Courses Taught:

Courses that I teach on a regular basis at UWRF:

Chemistry 121: General Chemistry I

Courses that I have taught:

Liberal Arts Chemistry; Preparatory Chemistry; General, Organic, Biochemistry; General Chemistry II; Organic Chemistry Survey; Organic Chemistry I & II; Guided Study in Teaching Chemistry; Investigative Science I & III for Elementary Education Majors; Chemical Information; and Introduction to Higher Education.

Research Interests:

My scholarship is in the area of chemistry education. I currently have several chemistry education research projects.

One project focuses on chemistry curricular reform and its affect on students as learners of chemistry. Aspects of this project include collecting survey data using the ASCIv2 to assess student attitudes toward chemistry as they progress through a traditional course sequence of general and organic chemistry and an organic first 3-semester sequence. This assessment project was initiated with support of a 2008 Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) NSF grant (DUE 0736504, PI Kahlow). Continued assessment of this project and other reform projects related to improving STEM graduation rates at UWRF are supported by a 2013-2018 NSF Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) grant (DUE 1317149, PI Kahlow). 

Another project aims to generate evidence about the role of testing feedback to promote and support learning in general chemistry through four related sets of studies. Practice and classroom testing feedback studies will examine the impact of different corrective feedback types and timings on future test performance and confidence-accuracy calibration. Interview testing feedback studies will employ semi-structured interviews to reveal how students use feedback in a testing environment and how this feedback may affect their learning, testing strategy or confidence. Lastly, a national survey will be developed and administered to examine instructors' testing feedback practices and perceptions in first-term general chemistry to better connect theory developed through this project with current practices. The results of this work will generate research-based criteria for selecting and using testing feedback with a goal of using multiple-choice testing as a learning tool as well as an evaluation tool. These projects are support by two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants: 2012-15 Collaborative Type I Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES) NSF Grant (DUE 1140914, Lead-PI Schneider) and 2016-2019 Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Engaged Student Learning Development and Implementation NSF grant (DUE 1625233, PI Schneider).

Along with these chemical education research projects, I am also very involved with Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects related to development and assessment of Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning activities and laboratories that help student make connections between particulate, symbolic/mathematical, and macroscopic representations.

Professional Activities:

I am actively involved with facilitating workshops on using inquiry based teaching approaches in the sciences for in-service K-12 teachers and college faculty.

I also serve as a UWRF representative to the UW Women & Science Program Board and the Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP) Program.

Publications:

Chemistry Education Related Publications:

• Schneider, J. L.; Hein, S. M.; Murphy, K. L. Feedback in Testing, the Missing Link. In Innovative Uses of Assessments for Teaching and Research; Kendhammer, L. K. and Murphy, K. L., Eds; ACS Symposium Series 1182; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2014; pp 93-112. 
• Warfa, A.; Roehrig, G.; Schneider, J.; Nyachwaya, J. “Collaborative discourse and the modeling of solution chemistry with magnetic 3D physical models – impact and characterization” Chemistry Education: Research and Practice, 2014, 15, 835-848.
• Warfa, A., Roehrig, G., Schneider, J.L., Nyachwaya, J., “The Role of Teacher-Initiated Discourses in Students’ Development of Representational Fluency in Chemistry” Journal of Chemical Education, 2014, 91, 784-792.
• Nyachwaya, J. M.; Mahamed, A. R.; Roehrig, G. H.; Schneider, J. L. “'College chemistry students’ use of memorized algorithms in chemical reactions” Chemistry Education: Research and Practice, 2014,15, 81-93.
• Nyachwaya, J. M.; Mahamed, A. R.; Roehrig, G. H.; Wood, N. B.; Kern, A. L.; Schneider, J. L. “The Development of an Open-ended Drawing Tool: An Alternative Diagnostic Tool for Assessing Students’ Understanding of the Particulate Nature of Matter” Chemistry Education: Research and Practice, 2011, 12, 121-132.
• Nyachwaya, J. M.; Mahamed, A. R.; Roehrig, G. H.; Wood, N. B.; Kern, A. L.; Schneider, J. L. “College Students’ Conceptual Understanding of the Particulate Nature of Mater” conference paper presented at the Association for Science Teacher Education 2011 International Conference.
• Nyachwaya, J. M.; Mahamed, A. R.; Roehrig, G. H.; Wood, N. B.; Kern, A. L.; Schneider, J. L. “College Students' Understanding of the Particulate Nature of Matter Across Reaction Types” conference paper to presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching 2011 International Conference.
• Schneider, J. L. Experiment 10: The Gas Laws. In Experiments in First Semester General Chemistry, 15th Ed., Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, Cengage Learning: Mason, OH, 2008; pp 69-76
• Ferstl, A. D.; Schneider, J. L., “Film Canister Science” Science Teacher, 2007, 74, 46-50.

Chemistry Related Publications:

• Schneider, J. L.; Young, V. G.; Tolman, W. B. "Copper(I) Chemistry of Bis(pyrazolyl)diphenylborate Ligands: Formation of a Heterocycle by Cu-Mediated Acetonitrile Addition," Inorganic Chemistry, 2001, 40, 165-168.
• Schneider, J. L.; Carrier, S. M.; Ruggiero, C. E. Young, V. G.; Tolman, W. B. "Influences of Ligand Environment on the Spectrscopic Properties and Disproportionation Reactivity of Copper-Nitrosyl Complexes," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1998, 120, 11408-11418.
• Schneider, J. L.; Halfen, J. A.; Young, V. G.; Tolman, W. B. "Mono- vs. Bidentate Coordination of the NONOate [Et2N(N2O2)]- to Copper(II) Complexes of Tetradentate Ligands," New Journal of Chemistry, 1998, 22, 459-466.
• Schneider, J. L.; Young, V. G.; Tolman, W. B. "Synthesis and Characterization of a Copper Complex of [Et2N(N2O2)]-Stabilized with Respect to NO Release in Aqueous Solution," Inorganic Chemistry, 1996, 35, 5410-5411.