Presentations

Invited Presentations at National Conferences

  1. Jennifer Blue (April 2023) Race and Physics. Presented at the American Physical Society’s April Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
  2. Jennifer Blue (2023) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion activities of the Group on Physics Education Research. Panel at the American Physical Society’s Annual Leadership Meeting, Washington, DC.
  3. Ramón Barthelemy and Jennifer Blue (2022) Panel to discuss the film Picture a Scientist, moderated by Geraldine Cochran, at the April Meeting of the American Physical Society, New York City.
  4. Jennifer Blue and Adrienne Traxler (2020) Talking about Genders in the Classroom. Presented at the virtual American Association of Physics Teachers conference.
  5. Jennifer Blue (2019) A thematic sequence in astronomy for non-majors.” Presented at the national meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Provo, UT.
  6. Jennifer Blue (2019) Assessing astronomy students’ views about the nature of scientific inquiry. Presented at the national meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA.
  7. Ellen J. Yezierski, Tammy Ann Schwartz, Jennifer Blue, Jeffrey J. Wanko, and Nazan Uludag Bautista (2018) Miami University Noyce Program: Community-Based and Culturally Responsive Approach to STEM Teacher Preparation, Induction, and Retention. 2018 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. South Bend, IN.
  8. Jennifer Blue, Anne Cox, Cindy Blaha, Barbara Whitten, Idalia Ramos, and Beth Cunningham (2018) Mutual Mentoring with eAlliances, Presented at the National Society of Black Physicists, Columbus, OH.
  9. Adrienne Traxler and Jennifer Blue (2018) Disability in Physics: Lessons from the binary view of gender, Presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Atlanta.
  10. Jennifer Blue (2018) Assessing astronomy students’ views about the nature of scientific inquiry, Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, San Diego.
  11. Amy Summerville, Jennifer Blue, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2017, October) Putting Impact in Students’ Hands:  Improving Course Outcomes through Social Cognitive Processes, Presented at the NSF EEC Grantees Conference, Arlington, VA.
  12. Jennifer Blue, Ximena Cid, Adrienne Traxler, and Ramon Barthelemy (2015). Gender in PER: What’s Been Done, How Should We Move Forward? Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, MD.
  13. Jennifer Blue, Kathleen Harper and David Abbott (2008) TA Training. Four-hour workshop presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Baltimore, MD.
  14. Jennifer Blue (2006) The Gender Gap in Physics: Some Research Results. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Anchorage.
  15. Jennifer Blue and Laura McCullough. (1997) Gender-Fair Instruction:  What Is It And How Are We Doing? Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Phoenix.

Invited Presentation at an International Conference

Adrienne Traxler and Jennifer Blue (2017) Disability in Physics: Lessons from the binary view of gender. Presented at the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

Peer-Reviewed Presentations at National Conferences

  1. Brielle Johnson, Woo J. Kim, Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2021). Gender difference in the functionality of regret on academic performance. Presented at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)’s Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD) 2021, Virtual Conference.
  2. Woo J. Kim, Brielle Johnson, Jennifer Blue, Brian Kirkmeyer, and Amy Summerville, (2020).  Functional Counterfactual Thought in STEM Efficacy and Performance. Presented at the virtual ASEE Annual Conference.
  3. Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, and Brian Kirkmeyer (January 2020). What a psychologist, an engineering and a physicist learned about engineering students. Presented at the national meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Orlando, FL.
  4. Woo J. Kim, Brielle Johnson, Amy Summerville, Jennifer Blue, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2019) Student self-Efficacy as a buffer against maladaptive regret in first-year courses. Presented at the Lilly Conference, Oxford, OH.
  5. Amy Summerville, Jennifer Blue, Brian Kirkmeyer, and Brielle Johnson (2019) Coulda, woulda, will I?: An experimental investigation of counterfactual thoughts and intention generation in engineering student success, Poster presented at the ASEE Annual Conference, Tampa, FL.
  6. Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2019) Social belonging among engineering students in early required courses. Presented at the American Association for Engineering Education’s Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference, Crystal City, VA.
  7. Woo J. Kim, Brielle Johnson, Jennifer Blue, Brian Kirkmeyer, and Amy Summerville, (2019).  Functional Counterfactual Thought in STEM Efficacy and Performance. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.
  8. Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, Brielle Johnson, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2018) Succeeding but doubting: Effects of gender on performance and self-perception in early engineering courses. Presented at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
  9. Amy Summerville, Brian Kirkmeyer, and Jennifer Blue (2018) How “what might have been” can shape what’s yet to come: Preliminary evidence for counterfactual thoughts as an intervention in early engineering courses. Presented at the (ASEE) Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
  10. Jennifer Blue, Brielle Johnson, Amy Summerville, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2018) Beliefs and behaviors of first-generation and low-income students in early engineering courses. American Association for Engineering Education’s Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference, Crystal City, VA.
  11. Jennifer Blue (2017) Assessing Astronomy Students’ Views about the Nature of Science. Presented at the SoTL Commons in Savannah, GA.
  12. Gregg Wentzell, Jennifer Blue, and Matthew J. Evins (2016) Responding Effectively to Students’ Feedback from Small-Group Instructional Diagnoses. Presented at the Lilly International Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, OH.
  13. Jennifer Blue, Gregg W. Wentzell, and Mathew J. Evins (2015) Listening to Our Students: What We Have Learned From Doing Small-Group Instructional Diagnoses. Presented at the Lilly International Conference on College and University Teaching, Newport Beach, CA. Presented by Gregg Wentzell.
  14. Jennifer Blue, Gregg W. Wentzell, and Mathew J. Evins (2014) Listening to Our Students: What We Have Learned From Doing Small-Group Instructional Diagnoses. Presented at the Lilly International Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, OH.
  15. Jennifer Blue, Julia Guichard, and Cecilia Shore (2013) Assessment of the Certificate in College Teaching at Miami University. Presented at the Lilly International Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, OH.
  16. Jennifer Blue and Julie Semlak (2013) Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Perceptions of Student Incivility. Presented at the SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, Savannah, GA.
  17. Jennifer Blue and Marianne Cotugno (2012) The Good, the Bad, and the –: Talking Assessment with Colleagues. Presented at the Lilly International Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, OH.
  18. Jennifer Blue and Marianne Cotugno (2012) Making Every Moment Count: Student Learning Outcomes and Course Alignment”. Workshop presented at the University of New England and again as a Center for Teaching and Learning seminar at Miami University – Middletown.
  19. Jennifer Blue, Bonita Porter, Jerry Sarquis, and Joyce Fernandes (2009) Recruiting Students into STEM Disciplines by Developing an Outreach Program for High Schools. Presented at the Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, OH.
  20. Jennifer Blue (2007) Assessment of Critical Thinking in Formal Laboratory Reports. Presented at the North Carolina State University Assessment Institute, Cary, North Carolina.
  21. Jennifer Blue and Debra Gann (2006) Girls’ Interest in Science and Mathematics. Presented at the Lilly Conference, Oxford, OH.
  22. Jennifer Blue, Beverley A.P. Taylor, and Jan Yarrison-Rice (2006) Full-Cycle Assessment of Critical Thinking in a General Education Seminar. Presented at the North Carolina State University Assessment Institute, Cary, North Carolina.
  23. Jennifer Blue and Donald B. Young (2006) Teaching Practices and Attitudes: Using Multiple Sources of Data to Understand Teachers’ Instructional Strategies. Presented at the national meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), San Francisco.

Contributed Presentations at National Conferences

  1. Recruiting and Supporting Underrepresented Students, Jennifer Blue (2023) Presented at the national meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Portland, OR.
  2. Jennifer Blue (2022) Transitioning to SCALE-UP, presented at the April Meeting of the American Physical Society, New York City.
  3. Alison Page and Jennifer Blue, Perceived Effectiveness of Peer Interaction in Physics Courses, presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers Winter meeting, January 2022. Virtual Conference.
  4. Harshini Sunil and Jennifer Blue, Trends Seen in an Introductory Astronomy Course Graded on Participation, presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers Winter meeting, January 2022. Virtual Conference.
  5. Jennifer Blue and Donna Messina (July 2021). Teaching Physics by Inquiry Remotely. Presented at the national summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Virtual Conference.
  6. Amy Summerville, Jennifer Blue, Brian Kirkmeyer, and Brielle Johnson (2019, October) Coulda, woulda, will I?: An experimental investigation of counterfactual thoughts and intention generation in engineering student success. Presented at the National Science Foundation Grantees Conference, Washington, DC.
  7. Nazan U. Bautista, Tammy Schwartz, Jeffrey J. Wanko, Ellen Yezierki, and Jennifer Blue (2019, July). Challenges and adaptations in implementing a Robert Noyce Program. Presented at the 2019 NOYCE Summit. Washington, DC.
  8. Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2018) Beliefs and Performance: Male and Female Engineers in Introductory Physics, Presented at the National Meeting if the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), Washington, DC.
  9. Abigail Hurley and Jennifer Blue (2018) Comparison of Calculus-based and Algebra-based SCALE-UP Physics, Presented at the National Meeting of the AAPT, Washington, DC.
  10. Jennifer Blue, Tammy Schwartz, Ellen Yezierski, Nazan Bautista, and Jeffrey Wanko (2018, July) MU-Noyce: A Community-Based Teacher Preparation Approach, Presented at the Noyce Summit, Washington, DC.
  11. Patrick Carroll and Jennifer Blue (2017, July) Social Collaboration and the Usage of Textbooks in an Introductory Physics Class, Presented at the Physics Education Research Conference in Cincinnati.
  12. Patrick Carroll, Sara Zanfardino, and Jennifer Blue (2017, July) Implementing a Student Driven First-Year Mentoring Program. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Cincinnati.
  13. Jennifer Blue and Adrienne Traxler (2017, June) This is not binary: Comparing the study of gender to the study of disabilities. Presented at the Foundations and Frontiers of Physics Education Research conference, Bar Harbor.
  14. Nikita Moore and Jennifer Blue (2017, January) Qualitative analysis of the conversion to SCALE-UP: Listening to students, Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Atlanta.
  15. Jennifer Blue (2016) Formative Evaluation of the Conversion to SCALE-UP at Miami University. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, New Orleans.
  16. Jennifer Blue, Nadia Cox, and Dilupama Divartne (2015, February) Formative Evaluation of the Conversion to SCALE-UP. Presented at the Building a Thriving Undergraduate Physics Program Workshop, Seattle.
  17. Jennifer Blue (2015, July) Relating the Car and Passenger Problem to the FVA Test. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, MD.
  18. Jennifer Blue, Gregg W. Wentzell, and Matthew J. Evins (2014, July) What Do Students Want? Small Group Instructional Diagnoses of STEM Faculty. Presented at the Physics Education Research Conference, Minneapolis.
  19. Jennifer Blue (2014, January) STEM Institutes for High School Teachers. Presented at the national American Association of Physics Teachers meeting in Orlando.
  20. Jennifer Blue (2013, July) Newton’s Second Law or Real Forces? Presented at the Physics Education Research Conference in Portland, Oregon.
  21. Jennifer Blue (2013, January) Examining Students’ Reservations about Forces. Presented at the national American Association of Physics Teachers meeting in New Orleans.
  22. Adam Hicks and Jennifer Blue (2009, July) Resilience of Astronomy Misconceptions, Presented at the Physics Education Research Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.
  23. Jennifer Blue and Mark Fisher (2009, February) Adapting a Photoelectric Effect Lab for the First-Year Laboratory. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Chicago, IL.
  24. Jennifer Blue (2007, June) Adapting a Rubric for Formal Laboratory Reports. Presented at the Foundations and Frontiers of Physics Education Research Conference, Bar Harbor, ME.
  25. Jennifer Blue (2006, July) One Laboratory Course Serving Two Populations: Student Perceptions of Their Understanding Of Physics. Presented at the Physics Education Research Conference, Syracuse, NY.
  26. Joshua Jacob and Jennifer Blue (2006, January) Reform of Introductory Laboratories: Baseline Data. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Anchorage, AK.
  27. Jennifer Blue (2005, July) What is working in our introductory labs? Presented at the Physics Education Research Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
  28. Jennifer Blue (2005, January) High School Activities and Achievement on the Force Concept Inventory. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Albuquerque.
  29. Jennifer Blue (2003) Relationships Between Sports Experience, Sex, and FCI Score. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Austin.
  30. Jennifer Blue (2002). Evaluating Information on the Web with Introductory Physics Students. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Philadelphia.
  31. Jennifer Blue (2001). Teaching a One-Semester High School Course in Modern Physics. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, San Diego.
  32. Jennifer Blue (1998) Achievement of a Matched Sample of Men and Women in an Introductory Physics Course. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, New Orleans, LA.
  33. Jennifer Blue and Patricia Heller (1996) Investigating Gender-Fair Instruction in Introductory Calculus-Based Physics Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, MD.
  34. Jennifer Blue and Patricia Heller (1994) The Physics Teaching Assistant Experience, Part III:  Teaching Skills Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Orlando, FL.
  35. Jennifer Blue and Patricia Heller (1994) Gender, Physics Background, and Conceptual Questions. Presented at the National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, San Diego, CA.

Presentations at Regional Conferences

  1. Jennifer Blue (2023, October). Race in Physics. Presented at the fall meeting of the Southern Ohio Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Cincinnati, OH.
  2. Gabrielle Dawson, Katy Mevis, and Jennifer Blue (2023, April). MARIE-C (Merging All-Girls Results in Education and Careers). Presented at the spring meeting of the Southern Ohio Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Pickerington, OH,
  3. Lydia Gabric and Jennifer Blue (2023, April). Test anxiety in Miami University students enrolled in STEM courses. Presented at the spring meeting of the Southern Ohio Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Pickerington, OH.
  4. Ellison Brennan, Alexa Draper, and Jennifer Blue (2023, March). Is the classroom a safe space? Perceptions from faculty and students. Presented at the Across the Divide Conference, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
  5. Jennifer Blue (2019, November) Studying gender in physics education research: Beyond the binary. Presented at a joint meeting of the Illinois and Chicago sections of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Joliet, IL.  Note: This was an invited talk.
  6. Jennifer Blue, Brian Kirkmeyer, and Amy Summerville, (2017, October) Student Strategies for Improving Course Grades: What Do They Do? Presented at a meeting of the Southern Ohio Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers Fall Meeting, Oxford, OH
  7. Kathleen A. Harper and Jennifer Blue (2016) Jeopardy! Problems to Develop Expert Problem-Solving Skills. Invited workshop presented at the Butler County STEM Professional Development Day, Hamilton, OH.
  8. Kathleen A. Harper and Jennifer Blue (2016) Engineering Design Processes. Invited workshop presented at the Butler County STEM Professional Development Day, Hamilton, OH.
  9. Jennifer Blue and Kathleen A. Harper (2016) Physics by Inquiry. Invited workshop presented at the Butler County STEM Professional Development Day, Hamilton, OH.
  10. Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, and Brian Kirkmeyer (2016) Counterfactual Thoughts in Introductory Physics Classes. Presented at the Southern Ohio Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers fall meeting, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH.
  11. Kathleen A. Harper and Jennifer Blue (2015) Jeopardy! Problems to Develop Expert Problem-Solving Skills. Invited workshop presented at the Butler County STEM Professional Development Day, Hamilton, OH.
  12. Kathleen A. Harper and Jennifer Blue (2015) Engineering Design Processes. Invited workshop presented at the Butler County STEM Professional Development Day, Hamilton, OH.
  13. Jennifer Blue and Kathleen A. Harper (2015) Physics by Inquiry. Invited workshop presented at the Butler County STEM Professional Development Day, Hamilton, OH.
  14. Jennifer Blue (2015) Instituting SCALE-UP at Miami University. Presented at OH-PKAL: Ohio Project Kaleidoscope, Increasing STEM Success in Higher Education. Otterbein University, Westerville, OH.
  15. Wm. Patrick Boyle and Jennifer Blue (2015) Investigation of Attitudes in Introductory Physics. Presented at the 21st Annual Undergraduate Research Forum, Miami University, Oxford, OH. Presented by Wm. Patrick Boyle.
  16. James Flurer and Jennifer Blue (2015) Exploring Memory in the Area of Physics Education. Presented at the 21st Annual Undergraduate Research Forum, Miami University, Oxford, OH. Presented by James Flurer.
  17. Jennifer Blue and Adrienne Traxler (2015) Enriching Gender in Physics Education Research: A Binary Past and a Complex Future. Presented at the Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Symposium, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
  18. Kathleen Harper and Jennifer M. Blue (2014) A Taste of Modeling Instruction. Invited workshop presented at the Butler County STEM Professional Development Day, Hamilton, OH.
  19. Jennifer Blue and Kathleen A. Harper (2014) Physics by Inquiry. Invited workshop presented at the Butler County STEM Professional Development Day, Hamilton, OH.
  20. Jennifer Blue and Kathleen A. Harper (2014) The Nuts and Bolts of Effective Cooperative Learning. Invited workshop presented at the Butler County STEM Professional Development Day, Hamilton, OH.
  21. Adam Hicks and Jennifer Blue (2008) Defining and Understanding Misconceptions of Fifth Grade Academic Content Standards. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society / Southern Ohio Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
  22. sarah-marie belcastro and Jennifer Blue (2004) Feminists Critiquing Science:  From Representation Issues to Philosophy. Presented at A Regional Symposium on Women, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH.

Invited Presentations at Colleges and Universities

  1. Jennifer Blue (March 9, 2022) Race and Physics, Seminar at the Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
  2. Jennifer Blue (January 14, 2022) Transition to SCALE-UP, Talk at the University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
  3. Jennifer Blue (January 14, 2022) Sex and Gender and Teaching and Research, Talk at the University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
  4. Jennifer Blue, Sex and Gender and Teaching and Research (May 6, 2021) Presented to the Center of Educational Excellence at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) virtually.
  5. Jennifer Blue (2020) What a psychologist, an engineer, and a physicist learned about engineering students. Presented to the physics department at Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
  6. Jennifer Blue (2019) What a psychologist, an engineer, and a physicist learned about engineering students. Presented to the physics department at Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY; the physics and engineering education departments at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and the engineering education department at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
  7. Jennifer Blue (2019) Studying gender in physics education research: Beyond the binary. Presented to the physics department at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
  8. Jennifer Blue (2018) Studying Gender in Physics Education Research: Beyond the Binary. Seminar presented to the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
  9. Jennifer Blue (2015) Transitioning to SCALE-UP. Seminar presented at the Department of Physics, Wright State University.
  10. Jennifer Blue (2013) Student Difficulties with the Car and Passenger Problem. Seminar presented at the Department of Physics, Illinois State University.
  11. Jennifer Blue and Marianne Cotugno (2012) Making Every Moment Count: Student Learning Outcomes and Course Alignment”. Workshop presented at the University of New England and again as a Center for Teaching and Learning seminar at Miami University – Middletown.
  12. Jennifer Blue (2012) Physics Education Research. Seminar presented to the Natural Sciences faculty at Colgate University.
  13. Mary Elizabeth Mills and Jennifer Blue (2012) Examining the Effects of Single-Sex Education on College Physics Students. Seminar presented at the Department of Physics, Purdue University.
  14. Jennifer Blue (2008) Southwest Ohio Science Institutes. Presented to the Department of Physics at Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
  15. Jennifer Blue, sarah-marie belcastro, and Liese Van Zee (2006) Women in Science. Panel at the Haverford College Reunion, Haverford, PA.
  16. Jennifer Blue (2004) Relationships between Force Concept Inventory and High School Activities Presented to the Northern Kentucky University Department of Physics and Geology.
  17. Jennifer Blue (2004) Student Conceptions about Forces and Newton’s Second Law. Presented to The Ohio State University Physics Education Research Group.