My research interests center around biology education. I am interested in factors which are important in retaining students in the biology major, especially during their first year at the university. I am interested in the development of graduate students and post-doc as instructors. I also study how to teach biology students scientific skills such as: the ability to develop a research question, design an experiment, develop and critique a scientific argument, and draw conclusions. Finally, I am interested in how discipline-based educational researchers (DBER) and science faculty view the relationship between DBER and science instruction.
