2019 - 2024
K-12 Bioinformatics: Professional Development Supports for Teaching Bioinformatics through Mobile Learning
This project investigates the professional development supports needed for teaching bioinformatics at the high school level. The overarching goal of the project is to help create an engaged population of informatics-informed students who are capable of critically analyzing information and able to solve local problems related to their health and well-being.
NSF DRK12 #1812638
PI: Dr. Susan Yoon
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Related Research
Kyza, E. A., Varda, C., Yoon, S. A. Shim, J., Zhang, W., Leung, V., Nguyen, Z., Törmänen, T., Järvenoja, H., Teo, C., Chan, C., Ong, A., Tran, T. C., Polman, J. L., Tabak, I, Reznick, N., Radinsky, J., & Hammer, D. (2025). Exploring the intersection of emotions and epistemic engagement. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences – ICLS 2025. (pp. XX-XX). Helsinki, Finland: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Aldemir, T., Shim, J., & Yoon, S. A. (2024). Empowering voices: Promoting equitable participation in student-inclusive co-design research-practice partnerships. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences – ICLS 2024. (pp. 466-473). Buffalo, USA: International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://doi.org/10.22318/icls2024.589952
Shim, J, & Yoon, S. A. (2024). Improving STEM education through resource activation: A study of culturally relevant teaching for critical data literacy in a high school science classroom. Journal of Research in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education. 7(SI,2024), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.31756/jrsmte.311SI
Aggül, Y. G., Horn, I., Shapiro, B. R., Öner, D., Metts, E., Chen, G. A., Shim, J., Esboldt, J., Harmon, M., Aldemir, T., & Yoon, S. A. (2024). Designing participatory teacher learning environments: Inquiries, methods, and perspectives from learning sciences. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences – ICLS 2024. (pp. 1910-1917). Buffalo, USA: International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://doi.org/10.22318/icls2024.752026
Miller, K., Polman, J. L., Tran, T., Yoon, S. A., Shim, J., Leung, V. Y., Nguyen, Y., Rubin, A., Higgins, T., Podworny, S., Fleischer, Y., Biehler, R., Vacca, R., Desportes, K., Matuk, C., Silander, M., Amato, A., Woods, P., Dikker, S., Romero, E., Ochoa, X., Fernandez, C., Eloy, A., Blikstein, P., Lopes, R., Walker, J. T., Acquah, A., Scarola, A., Reza, S., Barany, A., Radinsky, J., Tabak, I., Karch, J. M., Hammerman, J. K. L., Lee, V. R., Demszky, D., Levine, S., & Louie, J. (2024). Data and social worlds: How data science education supports civic participation and social discourse. In R. Lindgren, T. Asino, E. A. Kyza, & C. Looi. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences – ICLS 2024. (pp. 1863-1870). Buffalo, USA: International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://doi.org/10.22318/icls2024.702524
Shim, J. & Yoon, S. A. (2023). Activating resources for incorporating culturally relevant teaching in STEM curricula. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023. Montreal, Canada: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Aldemir, T., Yoon, S. A. Miller, K., & Shim, J. (2023). Teachers as co-designers: Forming Equitable participation through the lens of relational trust. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023. Montreal, Canada: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Miller, K., Yoon, S. A., & Shim, J. (2022). Surfacing collective pedagogical content knowledge for data literacy: An exploratory study with high school science teachers. In C. Chinn, E. Tan, B. Chan, & Y. Kali (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022. (pp. 1037-1040). Hiroshima, Japan: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Noushad, N. F., Shim, J., & Yoon, S. (2022). Navigating the conceptual and critical demands of data literacy in high school space using first-hand data. In C. Chinn, E. Tan, B. Chan, & Y. Kali (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022. (pp. 195-202). Hiroshima, Japan: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Shim, J., Noushad, N. F., & Yoon, S. (2022). Exploring pedagogical strategies for promoting student epistemic agency through the transfer of cognitive authority in an online science class. In A. Weinberger, W. Chen, D. Hernandez-Leo, & B. Chen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022. (pp. 51-58). Hiroshima, Japan: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Miller, K., Yoon, S., Shim, J., & Cottone, A. (2021). Integrating data literacy into secondary school Science: An exploratory study of a pilot professional development. In E. de Vries, Y. Hod, & J. Ahn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2021. (pp. 781-784). Bochum, Germany: International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/7582
Noushad, N. F., Shim, J., Yoon, S. A., & Cottone, A. M. (2021). Are community relevant PBL supports enough to promote epistemic agency? Exploring variation in epistemic pedagogical practices in science classrooms. In E. de Vries, Y. Hod, & J. Ahn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2021. (pp. 211-218). Bochum, Germany: International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/7468
Shim, J., Yoon, S. A., Cottone, A., & Miller, K. (2021). Two exploratory case studies of teachers’ adaptive expertise in teaching bioinformatics in high school science classrooms. In E. de Vries, Y. Hod, & J. Ahn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2021. (pp. 1021-1022). Bochum, Germany: International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/7376
Bressler, D., Yoon, S., Miller, K., Shim, J., Wendel, D., Schoenfeld, I., Anderson, E., & Reider, D. (2019). Perceptions of online professional development: Do newer and experienced teachers differ?. In K. Lund, G. P. Niccolai, E. Lavoué, C. Hmelo-Silver, G. Gweon, & M. Baker (Eds.), A Wide Lens: Combining embodied, enactive, extended, and embedded learning in collaborative settings, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning - CSCL 2019, Volume 2 (pp. 821-822). Lyon, France: International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/4515
Conference Presentations
Shim, J., & Yoon, S. A. (2024, April 11-14). Activating social resources for ambitious instruction that engages culturally relevant teaching in a science class [Structured Poster Presentation]. 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Aldemir, T., Shim, J., & Yoon, S. A. (2024, April 11-14). Tokenistic or Genuine - Engaging students as codesigners of a curriculum unit [Roundtable Session]. 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Shim, J., & Yoon, S. A. (2024, January 3-6). Challenges and opportunities in resource activation: A case study of a teacher’s incorporating culturally relevant teaching in STEM curricula [Paper Presentation]. The 22nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, Waikoloa, HI, United States.
Yoon, S. Cottone, A., Shim, J., Miller, K., Evans, C., Noushad, N., & Himes, B. (2023, August 20-21). Teachers’ adaptive expertise and impacts on student experiences during STEM-integrated learning [Paper presentation]. The Biennial meeting of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Shim, J., Noushad, F. N., & Yoon, S. A. (2023, May 4-5). Placemaking for data literacy: Exploring student learning via first-hand data collection activity [Paper presentation]. 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, United States.
Noushad, F. N., Shim, J., & Yoon, S. A. (2023, April 13-16). Teacher fidelity and ambitious instructional practices: Measuring teacher adaptations of ambitious science instruction through a multiplicity of enactment approach [Paper presentation]. 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, United States.
Yoon, S., A, Shim, J., Miller, K. M, Cottone, A., Noushad. F., N, Himes, B (2023, April 13-16). Professional Development for STEM integration: Analyzing bioinformatics teaching by examining teachers’ qualities of adaptive expertise [Structured poster presentation]. 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, United States.
Shim, J., Yoon, S. A., Miller, K, Cottone, A, Noushad, N. F., Richman, T., Marei, A., Gonzalez, M., Urbanowicz, R. J., & Himes, B. E. (2022, April 21-26). Learning bioinformatics through a justice-centered design: Developing student relationships with data in urban communities [Structured poster presentation]. 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, United States.
Yoon, S., Bressler, D., Shim, J., Miller, K., Himes, B., Urbanowicz, R., Gonzalez, M., & Houting, B. (2020, March 15-18). Assessment of professional development supports for teaching bioinformatics in high school biology: Benefits and challenges. 2020 National Association of Research in Science Teaching 90th Annual International Conference, Portland, OR, United States. https://narst.org/conferences/2020-annual-conference (Conference canceled).
Shim, J., Yoon, S. A., Cottone, A., Miller, K., Gonzalez, M., Urbanowicz, R., & Himes, B. (2021, April 9-12). An exploratory case study of bioinformatics classroom implementation in high school science to support learning of data literacy [Roundtable presentation]. 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (virtual).
Yoo, J., Shim, J., Noora, N., & Yoon, S. A., Gonzalez, M., Urbanowicz, R., & Himes, B. (2021, April 9-12). Fostering data literacy in high school science classrooms: Learning and instructional challenges [Roundtable presentation]. 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (virtual).