2017 Professional Development Conference

December 29, 2017 | by jrpNABT1938

When: November 9 - 12, 2017
Where: St. Louis Union Station Hotel
St. Louis, MO

Conference Program

The full conference program is available for download.

Program Days Pages: You may also download sections from the program that was available in St. Louis.

• Thursday, November 9th
• Friday, November 10th
• Saturday, November 11th
• Sunday, November 12th
• Speaker & Speaker Index
• Exhibitor Index
• 2017 Research Symposium Proceedings

Resources

Derek Arndt
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC

Pulse of the Planet: Measuring Change in the Global Climate

Climate change and its impacts are both obvious and pervasive, through measurement and experience. Climate change itself is controversial in some circles, and its connections to certain extreme weather hazards are controversial even within science. The globe has warmed by nearly two degrees Fahrenheit in the last century. How much of that has been driven by human, versus natural, activity? Through September, 15 separate weather and climate disasters have caused at least one billion dollars in direct damages in the United States. How are these events related to climate change? This presentation will examine climate change, from the lens of the institution tasked to calculate both the rate of warming and the number of billion-dollar disasters, and will explore the relationships between climate and extreme weather, and share insights on what can be learned from history.

Slides from this Presentation

Mary Pat Wenderoth, PhD
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

End of Lecture: The Future of Evidence-based Teaching

Meta-analysis of 225 papers that compared student performance under active learning versus lecturing in undergraduate courses across the STEM disciplines will be presented. The results indicate that on average students are 1.5 times more likely to fail when being lectured to as compared to when the same course has an active learning component, and active learning increases exam scores by almost half a standard deviation. Research results that increase student achievement will be summarized, including discussion of how even small changes can close the gap between teaching and student learning; this has tremendous implications for all students, especially those from underserved groups. PORTAAL, a new classroom observation tool that identifies key elements of an active learning classroom associated with enhanced student learning, will be presented.

Slides from this Presentation

Photos from St. Louis

• Photos from the 2017 NABT Conference are available on Dropbox at 2017 Conference Photos.
• Photos from the honors luncheon are also available at 2017 Honors Luncheon.