Jim Stewart Professor 226B Teacher Education Bldg. 225 N. Mills St. E-Mail:jhstewar@facstaff.wisc.edu Phone:(608) 263-4638

Jim Stewart received his Ph.D. in Science Education from Cornell University in 1978. Prior to that he had obtained both B.S. and M.S. degrees from the State University of New York at Geneseo and had been a high school biology teacher in the finger lakes region of New York State for several years.

His current research areas focus on understanding student learning, problem solving and reasoning, especially in genetics, evolutionary biology and astronomy. His research efforts have been

Selected Publications

Stewart, Jim, Jennifer L. Cartier, and Cynthia Passmore. (in press). Project MUSE: Secondary science classrooms that promote learning with understanding. In How People Learn. National Research Council.

Wynne, Cynthia., Stewart, Jim and Cynthia Passmore. (in press). “High school students' use of meiosis when solving genetics problems.” International Journal of Science Education.

Passmore, Cynthia and Jim Stewart. (in press). A modeling approach to the teaching

Courses

Projects

Modeling for Understanding in Science Education