Kevin Nguyen

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Academic Interests

I am a learning scientist and discipline-based education researcher specializing in science and engineering education. I am specifically interested in how people and communities learn and engage in science and engineering outside of school. My current ethnographic research examines how a community of citizen scientists and whitewater canoers accessed, learned, and engaged with water quality science in Texas and on the border. Previously, I have worked on examining the STEM doctoral student experience and increasing the usage of active learning in undergraduate STEM classrooms

Selected Publications & Presentations

Nguyen, K., Azevedo, F. S.,  & Papendieck, A. (In Press). No longer an imaginary case: Community, plans, and situated actions in canoeing rapids. Journal of the Learning Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2021.1936530

Nguyen, K., Borrego, M., Finelli, C., Tharayil, S., Crockett, C., DeMonbrun, R. M., Shekhar, P., Rosenberg, R., & Waters, C. (2021). Instructor Strategies for Implementing Active Learning: A Systematic Literature Review. International Journal of STEM Education. 8(9). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-021-00270-7

Crockett, C., Finelli, C. J., DeMonbrun, M., Nguyen, K., Tharayil, S., Shekhar, P., & Rosenberg R. (2021). Common Characteristics of High-quality Papers Studying Student Response to Active Learning. International Journal of Engineering Education. 37(2). https://www.ijee.ie/latestissues/Vol37-2/12_ijee4039.pdf

Shekhar, P., Borrego, M., Finelli, C., DeMonbrun, M., Crockett, C., & Nguyen, K. A. (2020). Negative Student Response to Active Learning in STEM Classrooms: A Systematic Review of Underlying Reasons. Journal of College Science Teaching. https://www.nsta.org/journal-college-science-teaching/journal-college-science-teaching-julyaugust-2020/negative-student

Borrego, M., Choe, N., Nguyen, K. A., & Knight, D. B. (2019). STEM Doctoral Student Agency Regarding Funding. Studies in Higher Education. 10.1080/03075079.2019.1650737

Nguyen, K. A. (2019). Border Patrol: Questioning the Citizen in Citizen Scientist. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. 9(1), 27-29. 10.1353/nib.2019.0012

Finelli, C. J., Nguyen, K. A., DeMonbrun, R. M., Borrego, M., Prince, M. J., Husman, J., Henderson, C., Shekhar, P., & Waters, C. K. (2018). Reducing student resistance to active learning: Strategies for instructors. Journal of College Science Teaching, 47(5), 80-91.

Tharayil, S., Borrego, M., Prince, M., Nguyen, K. A., Shekhar, P., Finelli, C., & Waters, C. (2018). Strategies to mitigate student resistance to active learning. International Journal of STEM Education. 5(1), 7. 10.1186/s40594-018-0102-y

Nguyen, K. A., Husman, J., Borrego, M., Shekhar, P., Prince, M., DeMonbrun, R. M., Finelli, C., Henderson, C., & Waters, C. (2017). Students’ Expectations, Types of Instruction, and Instructor Strategies Predicting Student Response to Active Learning. International Journal of Engineering Education, 33(1(A)), 2-18.