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Dr. David Kanter

David E. Kanter, Assistant Professor
Curriculum, Instruction, and Technology in Education Dept.
(Science Education Group)
Biology Department

1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
Ritter Hall 440, College of Education
Philadelphia, PA 19122

phone (215) 204-6206
fax: (215) 204-1414
dkanter@temple.edu

Education

1998 Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

1991 B.S.Eng. Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

1991 B.S.Econ. Technology Management, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Professional Interest

  • Design principles for Project-based Inquiry Science curricula
  • Design research on Project-based Inquiry Biology middle and high school curricula including measuring student learning and attitudes
  • Designing and studying the impact of practice-based teacher training, including inquiry research laboratories and graduate study designed to bolster biology content knowledge and biology-specific pedagogical knowledge
  • Studying correlations between urban teachers' improved ability to use biology-specific pedagogical knowledge and content knowledge and the impact on their minority students' attitudes and achievement

Recent Scholarship

Kanter, D.E. and B.J. Reiser (in preparation).  Designing Project-based Science Curricula for Meaningful Understanding of Science Content.

Linsenmeier, R.A., D.E. Kanter, H.D. Smith, K.A. Linsenmeier, and A.F. McKenna (in press).  Evaluation of a Challenge-based Human Metabolism Laboratory for Undergraduates.  Journal of Engineering Education.

Kanter, D.E., B. Sherin, and V. Lee (2006, June).  Changing Conceptual Ecologies with Task-structured Science Curricula.  Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), Bloomington, IN.

Kanter, D.E. and M.A. Schreck (2006).  Learning Content Using Complex Data in Project-based Science: An Example from High School Biology in Urban Classrooms.  New Directions in Teaching and Learning, 108, 77-91.

Kanter, D.E., H.D. Smith, A. McKenna, C. Rieger, and R.A. Linsenmeier (2003, June).  Inquiry-based Laboratory Instruction Throws Out the “Cookbook” and Improves Learning.  Proceedings of the 2003 American Sociey for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.  (12 pp.).

Kanter, D.E., B. Sherin, S. MacKenzie, B.J. Reiser (2003, April).  Learning in a Project-based Human Biology Curriculum: I, Bio.  Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.  (17 pp.).

Kanter, D.E., K. Schwille, S. MacKenzie, and B.J. Reiser (2003, March).  Curriculum Design Strategies Support Content Learning in Task-structured Science Curricula. Proceedings of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Annual Conference.  (15 pp.).


Website: http://BioQ.temple.edu