Leema Berland

Terminal Degree

PhD from Northwestern University in the Learning Sciences

Representative Publications

Berland, L. & Reiser, B. J. (in press).  Making sense of argumentation and explanation. Journal of Science Education. Science Education 

Kuhn L.  (April, 2008). Students’ use of evidence in argumentative discourse. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Balitmore, MD.

Kuhn L., & Reiser, B.J.  (April, 2007). Bridging classroom practices: Traditional and argumentative discourse. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, New Orleans, LA.

Kuhn, L., Kenyon, L., O., & Reiser, B. J. (July, 2006). Fostering scientific argumentation by creating a need for students to attend to each other’s claims and evidence.In S. Barab, K. Hay & D. Hickey (Eds.), ­Proceedings of the seventh international conference of the learning sciences (pp 370-375). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Kenyon, L. 0., Kuhn, L, & Reiser, B. J. (July, 2006). Using students’ epistemologies of science to guide the practice of argumentation. In S. Barab, K. Hay & D. Hickey (Eds.), ­Proceedings of the seventh international conference of the learning sciences (pp 321-327). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Recent Awards

• Doctoral Fellow, Center for Curriculum Materials in Sciences 2003-2007
• Best Paper Award, National Association for Reserach in Science Teaching, April 2005