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- Improving the learning experience in an undergraduate course on microbial metabolism by using an illustrated story Jake McKinlay & Katie Kearns (2024, Biochem Mol Biol Educ. https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21869).
- “In retrospect, I recognize it as a significant turning point”: A graduate student-centered assessment of a Preparing Future Faculty program. Charmian Lam, Leslie Drane, Katie Kearns, Julie Eyink, Helen Hathorn, Matthew Standard, Aybike Tezel, Melissa O’Neill, Jay Howard, Julie Saam & David Daleke (2024, To Improve the Academy 43(2): 11. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/tia.3808).
- Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate. Karen Cardozo, Katherine Kearns, & Shannan Palma, editors (2024, Purdue University Press).
- Meanings of community: Educational developers experience care, satisfying contributions, and belonging in a collaboration across institutions. Tom Colclough, Will Howitz, Danny Mann, Katie Kearns, & Darren Hoffmann (2023, To Improve the Academy 42(2). https://doi.org/10.3998/tia.2637).
- Teaching as if Learning Matters: Pedagogies of Becoming by Next-Generation Faculty. Jennifer Meta Robinson, Valerie Dean O’Loughlin, Katherine Kearns, & Laura Plummer, editors (2022, Indiana University Press).
- Appreciating and Caring for Our Communities of Practice in Educational Development. Christopher V.H-H. Chen, Katherine Kearns, Lynn Eaton, Darren S. Hoffmann, Denise Leonard, & Martin Samuels (2022, To Improve the Academy, 41(1): 121-150. https://doi.org/10.3998/tia.460).
- Teaching Graduate Students to Use Discipline-Specific, Evidence-Based Practices: Terms, Practices, and Opportunities. Katherine Kearns (2021, in Joanna Gilmore & Molly Hatcher (eds.), Preparing for College and University Teaching: Competencies for Graduate and Professional Students, pp. 158-175. Stylus.).
- Benefits of a multi-institutional, hybrid approach to teaching course design for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and leaders. Darren Hoffmann, Katherine Kearns, Karen Bovenmyer, W.F. Preston Cumming, Leslie Drane, Madeleine Gonin, Lisa Kelly, Lisa Rohde, Shabnum Tabassum, & Ryan Blay (2021,Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 9(1): 218-224).
- Intersectional approaches to teaching about privileges. Shadia Siliman & Katherine Kearns (2020, Radical Teacher, 116 (Winter 2020): 47-54) .
- Transgressive Learning Communities: Transformative Spaces for Underprivileged, Underserved, and Historically Underrepresented Graduate Students at Their Institutions. Leslie Drane, Jordan Lynton, Yari Cruz-Rios, Elizabeth Malouchos, & Katherine Kearns (2019. Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 7(2)).
- The Graduate Course in College Pedagogy: Survey of Instructors of College Pedagogy in the United States and Canada. Jennifer Meta Robinson, Valerie Dean O’Loughlin, Katherine D. Kearns, & Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin. (2019, College Teaching 67(2): 109-119).
- Using scaffolding and deliberate practice to improve abstract writing in an introductory biology laboratory course. Natalie Christian and Katherine Kearns. (2018, J. Microbiol. Biol. Educ. 19(2))
- “Once a Scientist…”: Disciplinary Approaches and Intellectual Dexterity in Educational Development. Katherine Kearns, Molly Hatcher, Mara Bollard, Michele DiPietro, Devon Donohue-Bergeler, Leslie E Drane, Elizabeth Luoma, Andrew E Phuong, Laura Thain, & Mary Wright. (2018, To Improve the Academy 37(1): 128-141).
Publications before 2018
- O’Loughlin, VD, K Kearns, C Sherwood-Laughlin, & JM Robinson. 2017. How do we train our future faculty to teach? A multidisciplinary comparison of graduate-level pedagogy courses offered at a large midwestern university. College Teaching 65(4): 172-181.
- Erbe, RG & KD Kearns. 2016. Using story structure for lesson design in teaching about sexual assault. The Health Educator 48(2): 23-27.
- Reynolds, HL and KD Kearns. 2016. A planning tool for incorporating backward design, active learning, and authentic assessment in the college classroom. College Teaching 65(1): 17-27.
- Lederer, AM, C Sherwood-Laughlin, KD Kearns, & VD O’Loughlin. 2016. The development and evaluation of a doctoral-level public health pedagogy course for graduate student instructors. College Teaching 64(1): 19-27.
- Robinson, JM, K Kearns, M Gresalfi, A Sievert, & T Christensen. 2015. Teaching on Purpose: A Collegium community model for supporting intentional teaching. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 26(1): 81-110.
- Hobbs, FC, DJ Johnson, & KD Kearns. 2013. A Deliberate Practice Approach to Teaching Phylogenetic Analysis. CBE Life Science Education 12:676-686.
- Robinson, JM, M. Gresalfi, AK Sievert, KD Kearns, TB Christensen, & ME Zolan. 2013. Talking across the disciplines: Building communicative competence in a multidisciplinary graduate-student seminar on inquiry in teaching and learning. In K McKinney (ed.) The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in and across the Disciplines, pp. 186-199. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
- Kearns, KD & C Subiño Sullivan. 2011. Resources and practices to help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows write statements of teaching philosophy. Advances in Physiology Education 35(2): 136-145.
- Griffith, LM, VD O’Loughlin, KD Kearns, M Braun, & I Heacock. 2010. A Pedagogy Course’s Influence on Graduate Students’ Self-Awareness as Teacher-Scholars. In L Border (ed.) Studies in Graduate and Professional Student Development, No. 13, pp. 59-82, Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.
- Kearns, KD, C Subiño Sullivan, M Braun, & VD O’Loughlin. 2010. A scoring rubric for teaching statements: A tool for inquiry into graduate student writing about teaching and learning. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 21(1): 73-96.
- Braun, MW & KD Kearns. 2008. Improved learning efficiency and increased student collaboration through use of virtual microscopy in the teaching of human pathology. Anatomical Sciences Education 1(6): 240-246.
- Kearns, KD & T Thrasher Hybl. 2005. A collaboration between faculty and librarians to develop and assess a science literacy laboratory module. Science and Technology Libraries 25(4): 39-56.
- Kearns, KD & MD Hunter. 2002. Algal extracellular products suppress Anabaena flos-aquae heterocyst spacing. Microbial Ecology 43: 174-180.
- Kearns, KD & MD Hunter. 2001. Toxin-producing Anabaena flos-aquae induces settling of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a competing motile alga. Microbial Ecology 42: 80-86.
- Kearns, KD & MD Hunter. 2000. Green algal extracellular products regulate anti-algal toxin production in a cyanobacterium. Environmental Microbiology 2: 291-297.
- Dowell, KM. 1997. Evidence for diapause in Skistodiaptomus pallidus. American Midland Naturalist 137(2): 362-368.
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