Joshua M. Rosenberg, Ph.D.

Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of STEM Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

If you’re looking for my contact information or other information (including links to ongoing grants, publications and presentations), please visit the page for my vita.

My University of Tennessee homepage is here.

The Making Data Science Count Research Group website is here.

Blog Posts

2022/05/23 The OA fees are too damn high
2022/05/16 Exciting times for STEM education at UTK
2022/05/06 Little Kids, Big Adventures to be published by UT Press
2022/05/02 More reflections on traveling to Germany
2022/04/28 Reflections on traveling to Germany
2022/04/26 New chapter of Little Kids, Big Adventures
2022/04/26 Presentation at the LEAD Graduate School and Research Network Retreat
2022/04/18 A social media reset
2022/04/15 Taking a Social Media Break
2022/04/08 Launching a Microcredential in Educational Data Analytics
2022/03/24 What is the role of data science in K-12 teaching and learning?
2021/12/30 Who’s reading Data Science in Education Using R?
2021/11/02 Presentation at Knox County Schools DLD - Analyzing and Interpreting Scientific Data
2021/10/29 Programs in educational data science and learning analytics
2021/10/28 Review of Powers’ Bewilderment
2021/10/13 Against U.S. News and World Report’s Educational Rankings
2021/10/07 What I’ve been reading: Crazy for the Storm and Called Again
2021/09/28 Article in Phi Delta Kappan on what schools should know about social media and student privacy
2021/09/27 Understanding the Cumberland Plateau
2021/09/26 New comment in JRST: Open for whom?
2021/09/23 Updated pre-print: Toward a Bayesian perspective for science learners
2021/09/21 Toward winter!
2021/09/14 Use RStudio Cloud for Teaching With Caution
2021/09/12 Reflecting on possibly, maybe contracting COVID (while vaccinated)
2021/08/21 Why it can be hard to understand the Smokies (and a bit on my understanding of them)
2021/08/20 Presentation at ICER 2021
2021/08/20 Working on a new project on analyzing data from … low-earth satellites
2021/08/16 Interview for Tennessee News Service on Students’ Privacy and Facebook
2021/08/13 BJET Special Section CFP - Data Science Education Across the Disciplines
2021/08/13 Roan Mountain Magic
2021/08/09 About Practice Episode 7 - Move Close to Your Router (Dr. Ji Son, Part 1)
2021/08/06 Workshop on a LASER Focus on Understanding and Improving STEM Education on August 11—No Fee, Register Now
2021/08/05 Summer stress
2021/08/04 The privilege of the tenure track for some
2021/08/03 Presentation on Students’ Work With Data at the Knox County Schools District Learning Day
2021/08/01 What I have learned about how I use social media
2021/07/22 Loving Knoxville
2021/07/19 An Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Science Education
2021/07/12 What’s the point of Krishnamurthi and Fisler (2020)?
2021/07/11 Alt peer review (via blogs and newsletters)
2021/06/26 Taking a work (and social media) break
2021/06/17 What do people think about the NGSS and what can public sentiment tell us about how the NGSS are being implemented?
2021/05/12 A grab-bag of thoughts for a first-time NSF panelist
2021/05/07 Structure and parenting
2021/05/05 Workshop on Machine Learning in Science Education Research
2021/04/28 Prep a CSV from an Otter.AI transcript exported as a plain text file
2021/04/18 A difference between backpacking with and without little ones
2021/04/16 Brief presentation on data science in and for education
2021/04/15 A very good example of Bayes in science education - Kubsch et al. (2021)
2021/04/13 Posts on Facebook by Schools and Districts and the Potential Risks to Students’ Privacy
2021/04/12 Workshop and presentations at NARST, AERA, and LAK
2021/04/09 The ups and downs of parenting - summarizing an “up”!
2021/04/04 Dayenu
2021/03/18 New article - #Mathathome during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Exploring and Reimagining Resources and Social Supports for Parents
2021/03/13 What administrators and educators should consider considering when posting from institutional Facebook accounts
2021/02/25 New paper - Balancing open science and privacy in the context of learning analytics
2021/02/17 Post-COVID reflections
2021/02/15 My efforts at keeping up with educational research, development, and news
2021/02/03 Making sense of COVID - it got us! But it won’t get us
2020/12/24 Elkmont Campground to Clingman’s Dome
2020/12/02 New chapter - Making data science count in and for education
2020/11/20 Kituwa, NC
2020/11/16 A fall outdoors
2020/11/06 Moving to Knoxville, somewhere new
2020/10/28 Book published! Data Science in Education Using R
2020/10/19 Using a Shiny app to securely collect data for research
2020/10/15 Impodster Syndrome podcast archive
2020/10/15 JRST Special Issue on Digital Ecologies to Appear, Reader Comments and Criticism Are Invited
2020/10/08 New course on data science methods in education
2020/10/05 Brief presentation for the UTK STEM Education Research Community of Scholars
2020/09/28 New article in JRST: Idle chatter or compelling conversation? The potential of the social media‐based #NGSSchat network
2020/09/22 (Almost) 30 months in the Smokies
2020/09/20 A shana tova wake-up call
2020/09/15 New article on combining machine learning and qualitative methods to study students’ involvement in science practices
2020/09/08 Using the State-by-State Spending on Kids Dataset (and tidykids)
2020/09/05 Educational researchers responded pretty well to COVID-19, but maybe we could respond even better
2020/08/31 My experience with getting started with high-performance computing
2020/08/17 Participating in a new NSF-funded project - LASER (Learning Analytics in STEM Education Research) Institute ⚡
2020/08/09 Participating in a new NIH-funded project on enhancing STEM education in rural Appalachia
2020/08/07 Annual meeting presentation for our PICSUL project
2020/07/29 What do we know about thinking, learning, and Bayesian methods? A short review of the literature
2020/07/23 Balancing student privacy with benefits to society? An informal pre-print for and request for feedback a response to a study by Ifenthaler and Schumaker
2020/07/22 Proposal for an educational data science course - request for feedback
2020/07/08 Some K-5 computing education resources (draft)
2020/07/05 Reflections on the last six months
2020/06/18 Participating (and presenting) in the 2020 ICLS Early Career Workshop
2020/06/08 Basic {sf} functionality for analyzing and plotting geospatial data
2020/06/02 Healing from a broken heart
2020/05/29 Practice, injustice
2020/05/22 Materials for an NSF BCSER proposal
2020/05/14 Post-secondary courses related to data science in education - a crowdsourced list of sorts
2020/05/10 An Informal, Open Introduction to Using R Markdown in Education
2020/05/09 New article on understanding engagement in out-of-school STEM programs using an experience sampling method to study youths’ experiences
2020/05/07 New article on exploring the validity of assessment items for the NGSS using machine learning
2020/05/06 Videos in the 2020 STEM For All Video Showcase
2020/04/25 An update to how U.S. school districts are responding to COVID-19
2020/04/08 Data Science in Education Using R by (and a little beyond) the numbers
2020/03/29 How are U.S. school districts responding to COVID? A first look at 12,500 districts’ websites
2020/03/24 Is your state still planning to carry out end-of-course testing in light of COVID-19? Crowdsourcing information
2020/03/19 Virtual KnoxData presentation (via Zoom) on reproducible, scalable research with drake in R