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Arthur Eisenkraft

Arthur Eisenkraft

PhD, New York University

Telephone: 617-287-7652

Email: Arthur.Eisenkraft@umb.edu

Dr. Eisenkraft’s research interests include development and evaluation of curriculum, assessing technological literacy, new models of distance learning, transfer of learning, problem based learning models, pedagogical content knowledge, integrating science and sports, and how to bring quality science instruction to all students including those from traditionally under-represented minorities.  He is Director of the Center of Science and Mathematics in Context (COSMIC).  (www.cosmic.umb.edu)

 

Published Scholarship

Books

 

Active Chemistry.  It’s About Time Publishing. 2007

 

Quantoons (with T. Bunk and L.D. Kirkpatrick). 2006

 

Active Physics Core Select.  It’s About Time Publishing; 2005

 

Light Up My Life.  It’s About Time Publishing; 2003.

 

Active Chemistry.  It’s About Time Publishing; 2002.

 

Active Physics (6 volumes).  It’s About Time Publishing; 1999

 

XXIV International Physics Olympiad Proceedings; AAPT; 1994

 

Modern Physics Teachers Guide; Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 1989

 

Living History of Physics. American Institute of Physics.  1984 (Author, with Warnow and Weart, of programs and Teacher's Guides.)

 

Physical Optics Using a Helium Neon Laser; Metrologic Instruments; 1980, 1988, 1996.

 

Selected Publications

 

Hearing before the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education: Committee on Science and Techno logy of the House of Representatives.  One hundred tenth Congress. First Session. March 8, 2007. 17-22.

 

Artist as Chemist.  The Science Teacher.  November, 2006

 

Expanding the 5E model.  The Science Teacher.  September, 2003.

 

Rating Science And Math.(with Cindy Workoski) Commentary in Education Week. February 14, 2001.

 

Development of New Curriculum (with B. Ellen Friedman). In National Standards & the Science Curriculum.  BSCS; 1996.

 

Equity and Excellence. In Redesigning the Science Curriculum. BSCS; 1995.

 

The 1993 International Physics Olympiad. (with B. G. Levi); Physics Today; September, 1993.

 

International Physics Olympiad (with L.D. Kirkpatrick); American Journal of Physics. 1992. 114-117.