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

2020/03/18 In support of JOSS for not accepting new article submissions
2020/03/16 Help request - bookdown figure numbers out of order
2020/03/11 Requesting your feedback: Data Science in Education Using R is almost ready!
2020/03/04 Sickness and gratitude
2020/02/27 More confidently uncertain? Teaching learners to apply Bayesian methods to make sense of scientific phenomena
2020/02/26 New version of konfound (v 0.2.1) for sensitivity analysis available
2020/02/21 Presentation on studying education-focused Twitter hashtags in light of state-based and national policies and practices
2020/02/09 New version of tidyLPA (v 1.0.5) for carrying out Latent Profile Analysis using either open-source or commercial software
2020/02/07 Writing a recursive function in R - or, tweets on tweets
2020/02/06 Short activities focused around trying something new - some coding and data science-related examples
2020/01/29 Open-source study - Resources related to our study of how students become interested in CS
2020/01/25 New article - Identifying multiple learning spaces in a single educational hashtag
2020/01/25 New article - The effects of choice and interest in science
2020/01/24 Multiple uses for multi-level models: Examples from recent research
2020/01/14 KnoxData presentation: An introduction to using R for data science, zero prerequisites required!
2020/01/11 First version of a research group handbook
2020/01/05 Presentations at the TN STEM Education Research Conference
2019/12/31 Things I learned in the last year
2019/12/24 Hey AERA, what’s up with that?
2019/12/22 Getting a grip on using BibTeX with R Markdown documents
2019/12/14 The first, rough (rough!) draft of the (web-based) version of Data Science in Education Using R is available
2019/12/13 A tiny (Shiny) app: How Many (MCMC) Cores?
2019/12/10 Using R/R Studio from a (Pixel Slate) Chromebook
2019/11/30 Research group website - Making data science count
2019/11/29 Taking a break from social media
2019/11/17 It was a job posting on a mailing list, not a blog post on the NARST blog: A response to Mintzes
2019/11/13 Using R with 7th-grade science students
2019/09/05 Presentation at Middle Tennessee State University: Making Data Science Count
2019/08/28 Pre-print probs - Some thoughts after posting a pre-print of an article
2019/08/28 Resources and ideas for engineers working on the design challenge of teaching elementary students about engineering
2019/08/22 Base group check-in questions
2019/08/22 Science education resources
2019/08/21 Responding to the President’s comments
2019/08/12 New project on understanding the development of interest in computer science
2019/08/03 Thoughts from submitting a grant proposal for the first time
2019/07/22 Introducing Data Science in Education Using R (forthcoming 2020)
2019/06/21 Presentation on the use of mixed effects models to the KnoxData group
2019/06/15 Recent publications on an online experiment platform, creatively focused technology fluency, and a computational science simulation
2019/05/19 Presentation on ‘Won’t you be my neighboR? An introduction to R for data science in education’
2019/04/18 Little Bitty Steps Toward a More Open Education Research
2019/04/04 Presentations at AERA 2019 - Understanding changes in interest in STEM, student engagement profiles in science, and transparent and reproducible research
2019/04/02 Presentation at NARST 2019 - An exploration of NGSSchat through social network analysis
2019/02/07 Presentation on ‘Making Sense of Recent Advances in the TPACK Framework’ at the English International Congress (at UTN in Ibarra, Ecuador)
2019/02/01 Presentation on engaging students in science at the ‘Crossing Boundaries for STEM Education’ regional meeting and mini-conference
2019/01/04 Presentation on The Role of the Twitter Hashtag #NGSSchat in the Context of Science Education Reform Efforts at ASTE 2019
2018/10/25 Writing a CV in markdown so it can be rendered as HTML, a PDF, and a Word document
2018/10/16 Presentation on Data Science Education Dilemmas (and Opportunities)
2018/10/01 Using R Markdown and papaja with a LaTeX class to submit a conference proposal: A few notes
2018/08/29 ‘Modeling’ science teaching and learning - a few notes on the first day of class
2018/08/02 A quick introduction and tutorial on a cool social network analysis model for influence
2018/06/29 In what months are educational psychology jobs posted? An update!
2018/06/25 The evolution of a data visualization (made with ggplot2)
2018/06/21 My dissertation defense (and some links to resources)
2018/06/04 Learning R (for data analysis and data science): Where to start
2018/05/09 Some books, NAP reports, and other newer resources related to science education
2018/05/03 Some ideas about getting started bike commuting
2018/04/15 AERA 2018 presentation: Patterns of engagement in a flipped undergraduate class (slides, paper, & code)
2018/04/14 AERA 2018 presentation: How engagement during out-of-school STEM programs promotes the development of interest (slides, paper, & code)
2018/04/12 An R package for sensitivity analysis (konfound)
2018/03/26 Explorations in Markov Chain Monte Carlo - comparing results from MCMCglmm and lme4
2018/02/22 Finding the top rail-trails in each state using mixed effects models
2018/02/14 Introducing tidyLPA (an R package for carrying out Latent Profile Analysis)
2018/01/25 Upcoming presentations at AERA, SITE, and NARST
2018/01/17 A Shiny interactive web application to quantify how robust inferences are to potential sources of bias (sensitivity analysis)
2017/12/30 Outcomes from a self-generated utility value intervention in science (in IJER)
2017/12/17 Modifying an R function to iterate (using purrr) and use non-standard evaluation (using rlang)
2017/11/21 New post on engaging students in “data practices” in online science classes (in the MVLRI Research, Policy, Innovation & Networks blog)
2017/11/07 Review of ‘What’s Worth Teaching: Rethinking Curriculum in the Age of Technology’ in Teachers College Record
2017/10/25 Two data packages: Rail-trails and an assessment of student achievement
2017/10/18 MVLRI webinar on engaging students in authentic ‘data practices’ in online science classes
2017/10/01 Getting started with ‘open science’ through blogging
2017/09/29 A person-in-context approach to student engagement in science (article in JRST)
2017/09/05 A few podcasts I always listen to
2017/09/01 Using MPlus from R with MPlusAutomation
2017/08/22 A first pass at Latent Profile Analysis using MCLUST (in R)
2017/08/15 Comparing estimates and their standard errors from mixed effects and linear models
2017/08/15 In what months are educational psychology jobs posted?
2017/08/02 Using characteristics of rail-trails to predict how they are rated
2017/07/24 What are the best rail-trails in Michigan?
2017/07/02 How many groups of Star Wars characters are there? R-squared and cross-validation approaches
2017/06/20 24 months on two wheels
2017/05/17 prcr update
2017/04/14 Presentation on an Introduction to R for Data Analysis
2017/03/16 Common Core and NGSS are not on the news
2017/03/13 What the world is data science education? Looking back on #dsetonline
2017/03/11 The Internet Archive’s Television News Archive and Newsflash
2017/02/28 Is the flu really worse this year? Comparing the (ongoing) 2016-17 and 2015-16 flu seasons
2017/02/17 prcr: An R Package for Person-Centered Analysis
2017/01/17 How much do we spend weekly on Groceries? Figuring out using R and Mint (Updated)
2017/01/07 Announcing clustRcompaR v.0.1.0
2017/01/07 Wordpress Archive
2016/04/15 An examination of students
2016/03/23 Presentation on an Introduction to R for Programming and Statistical Analysis in Education
2016/03/22 Presentation on State Educational Twitter Hashtags at
2015/11/06 Slides for What Teachers and Researchers Discuss at Science Education Conferences at
2015/11/06 Slides for An Examination of State Educational Twitter Hashtags at
2015/08/04 New article in the Journal of Research on Technology in Education
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