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Dr. David Kanter

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

1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Ritter Hall 440, College of Education
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091

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

Recent Scholarship

Kanter, D.E. (in press). I, Bio. In: Project-based Inquiry Science. Armonk, NY: It's About Time, Herff Jones Education Division.

Kanter, D.E., K.I. Tester, S. Konstantopoulos, & J. Gallagher (in review). A Project-based Science Curriculum Impacts Minority Students' Achievement and Attitudes via Teacher Knowledge and Practice. Science Education.

Kanter, D.E., V. Lee, and B. Sherin (in review). Modal Analysis: Using Changes in Conceptual Ecologies to Capture Task-structured Science Learning. Journal of the Learning Sciences.

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

Linsenmeier, R.A., Kanter, D.E., H.D. Smith, K.A. Linsenmeier, and A.F. McKenna (2008).  Evaluation of a Challenge-based Human Metabolism Laboratory for Undergraduates.  Journal of Engineering Education. 97(2). 213-222.

Kanter, D.E. (2008, March). Structured Poster Session: Implementing What We Know About Learning in a Middle School Curriculum for Widespread Dissemination: The Project-Based Inquiry Science (PBIS) Story. Proceedings of the 2008 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Kanter, D.E. (2007, April). Gaining a Meaningful Understanding of Human Biology Content Using a Personal Health Project-based Curriculum in Middle School Life Science Classrooms. Proceedings of the 2007 National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

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 Teachingand Learning, 108, 77-91.

Website: BioQ Collaborative