CLTW Roles and Responsibilities:
Kathy Cochran is the Co-PI of The Center for Learning
and Teaching in
the West at University of Northern Colorado. She teaches the Cognition
and Instruction I and II courses and conducts research on cultural
aspects of learning and cognition and in patterns of interaction
in online instructional settings.
Primary Research Interests:
Individual differences in learning and cognition,
philosophical aspects of
learning and teaching, and systems theory perspectives.
Recent publications:
Cochran, K. (in press). The Homeschooled Child
and Science. In K. Tobin
(Ed.). Teaching and Learning in Science: A Handbook. Praeger.
Cochran, K. Swanson, E. & Miller-Jones, D. (2005, April).
Creating an
doctoral online learning environment and fostering reflection
and
conceptual change. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of
the
American Educational Research Association. Montreal.
Cochran, K. & Miller-Jones, D. (2004, April). Conceptual change
in online
course environments. Paper presented at the annual conference
of the
National Association for Research in Science Teaching. Vancouver,
BC.
Swanson, E., Cochran, K., Miller-Jones, D., & Simonson, L.,
(2003, March).
A research agenda in science teacher education via distance delivery.
Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association
for Research in Science Teaching.
Other Relevant Professional Information:
Kathy Cochran holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology
from Purdue
University. She is the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in
the School of
Psychological Sciences at UNC. She was a Co-PI of the Rocky Mountain
Teacher
Education Collaborative, funded by NSF, from 1994 – 2002.
