BA Hope College 1966; MAT University of Iowa 1968; PhD Northwestern University 1972
Glenbrook South High School 1971-74; Northwestern University Medical School 1968-71
Educational psychology; quantitative research methods; curriculum and instruction in school science and mathematics; social and cultural foundation of American education
Scientific literacy, the history of secondary school science teaching in the U.S., student achievement, gender effects on achievement in science and mathematics
A History of Ideas in Science Education: Implications for practice (New York: Teachers College Press, 1991); Research on goals for the science curriculum: (in Handbook of Research on Science Teaching, 1994); "Historical perspectives on scientific literacy" (in Scientific Literacy, 1997); reviews in The Colgate Scene; articles in Science Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Personnel and Guidance Journal, Journal of College Student Personnel