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Education

2007 Doctor of Philosophy (Physics), University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Plasticity: Resource Justification and Development Advisor: Dr. Michael C Wittmann Dissertation

2005 Master of Science in Teaching (Physics), University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Resource Selection in Nearly-Novel Situations Advisor: Dr. Michael C Wittmann Thesis

2002 Bachelor of Arts (Physics), Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.

Professional Experience

• 2009-present: Visiting Assistant Professor and Lilly Teaching Fellow, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
• 2007-2009: Postdoctoral Researcher, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Advisor: Dr. Andrew Heckler
• 2002-2007: Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Advisor: Dr. Michael C. Wittmann
• 2004-2007: Physics Tutor, Husson College, Bangor, Maine
• 2004-2006: Physics Instructor, The Princeton Review, Maine

Research

Interests

• Improving and extending the theoretical bases for physics education research.
• Investigating the interplay between physics and mathematics understanding.
• Learning and forgetting in introductory physics classes.
• Developmental trends for pre-service physicists.
• Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods education research.

Grants

pending: Collaborative Research: Learning to think like physicists (NSF TUES, $200k) Investigates upper-division physics majors' developing ideas about mathematics and physics. Co-PI: Dr. Michael Wittmann, University of Maine

pending: Developing a Pan-PER web resource on Grantsmanship (PER Topical Group of the AAPT, $2500) Supports the development of a community resource on grantsmanship. Co-PI: Dr. Warren Christensen, North Dakota State University

pending: Scholar-in-Residence (PER Topical Group of the AAPT, $1200) Supports travel to University of North Carolina -- Greensboro to research interviewers' intuitions about interviewing. Co-PI: Dr. Ian Beatty, University of North Carolina -- Greensboro

2010-2012: Collaborative Research: Developing a tool for teachers to assess real-time learning and forgetting in large classes (NSF CCLI #0941889, $200k) Investigates learning and forgetting in large-enrollment introductory physics classes using RAWR, a web-based system for data collecting, analysis, and real-time reporting. Co-PI: Dr. Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology

2010: Conference Grant (PER Topical Group of the AAPT, $2250) Supports reduced registration to UDPER conference for graduate students and others with limited means.

2010: Faculty Development Grant (Wabash College Center for Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, $1000) Supports travel to Seattle Pacific University to work with Dr. Rachel Scherr

2010: Travel Grant (Undergraduate Research Committee, $1200) Partially supports research group (two students, one faculty) travel to visit collaborators at Rochester Institute of Technology

2009: Travel Grant (PER Topical Group of the AAPT, $500) Supports travel to American Association of Physics Teachers, Ann Arbor

Consulting

pending: Collaborative Research: Developing a suite of Modern Physics Laboratories (NSF TUES type 1, $200k) The project develops and tests conceptually-related cycles of labs for use in a sophomore-level modern physics course; I perform pedagogical support and project evaluation. PIs: Dr. Martin Madsen, Wabash College, Dr. Linda Barton, Rochester Institute of Technology

pending: RCN-UBE Incubator: Collaborative Development of a Biology Concept Inventory-Driven Video Library to Enhance Assessment of Biology Education Research (NSF RCN-UBE, $50k) The project develops an extensive video library for biology concepts as an aid to researchers generating concept inventories in biology; I advise on video data collection and analysis. PIs: Drs. Dina Newman, L. Kate Wright, and Gary Skuse, Rochester Institute of Technology; Dr. Michael Klymkowsky, University of Colorado at Boulder

2009-2011: Lilly Teaching Fellowship (Lilly Foundation, $169k) Partially supports the Upper Division PER conference and the Physics Program evaluation. PI: Physics Department, Wabash College

Curriculum Development & Evaluation

2009-2010: Physics Program, Wabash College: Extensively reviewed the coursework, student understanding, and post-graduation outcomes for the physics major and minor at Wabash College; recommended and implemented changes to improve students' coherence and understanding of physics.

2010: Learning Assistant Program, Wabash College: Developed and taught a seminar on learning to teach physics effectively; directed a program for undergraduate learning assistants in introductory physics laboratories

2006: Intermediate Mechanics Tutorials, University of Maine: PIs: Michael C Wittmann and Bradley Ambrose: Co-developed and edited hourlong tutorials on classical mechanics and related mathematics at the intermediate level.

2004-2005: Laboratory Manual for Introductory Algebra-based Physics, University of Maine: Revised lab manual for two-semester course for life science majors; labs use a modified version of the Arizona Modeling Method

2003-2006: Intuitive Quantum Physics, University of Maine: PI: Michael C Wittmann: Co-wrote a one-semester lab-based quantum physics course for non-science majors at the pre-algebra level; consulted for edits to improve clarity and learning.

Presentations & Publications

Papers

• Sayre, E.C. and Franklin, S.V. (in preparation) ``Learning and Forgetting in Traditional and Reformed Classes''
• Sayre, E.C. (in preparation) ``Coordinate system resources in expert students: The can-should-must developmental trend''
• Sayre, E.C., Scherr, R.E., and Close, H. (in preparation) ``Two kinds of generosity in clinical interviews''
• Sayre, E.C. and Franklin, S.V. (submitted) ``Learning, Retention, and Forgetting in University Physics'', American Educational Research Association 2011 Conference
• Heckler, A.F., Kaminsky, J., Sayre, E.C., and Sloutsky, V. (submitted) ``The Liability of Salience: Attentional Learning and Misconception-like Answering on Science Questions'', Journal of Experimental Psychology -- Learning, Memory and Cognition
• Clark, J., Sayre, E.C., and Franklin, S.V. (2010) ``Fluctuations in Student Understanding of Newton's Third Law'', Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2010, AIP Conference Proceedings
• Wang, T. and Sayre, E.C. (2010) ``Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) of students' understanding of vector subtraction'', Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2010, AIP Conference Proceedings
• Hawkins, J.M., Thompson, J.R., Wittmann, M.C., Sayre, E.C., and Frank, B.W. (2010) ``Students' responses to different representations of a vector addition question'', Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2010, AIP Conference Proceedings
• Sayre, E.C. and Heckler, A.F. (2010) ``Typical learning curves and possible instructional causes in physics instruction'', American Journal of Physics
• Rosenblatt, R., Sayre, E.C., and Heckler, A.F. (2009) ``Modeling students' conceptual understanding of force, velocity, and acceleration'', Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2009, AIP Conference Proceedings.
• Sayre, E.C. and Heckler, A.F. (2009) ``Peaks and decays of student knowledge in an introductory E&M course,'' Physical Review Special Topics -- Physics Education Research.
• Sayre, E.C. and Wittmann, M.C. (2008) ``The plasticity of intermediate mechanics students' coordinate system choice'', Physical Review Special Topics -- Physics Education Research.
• Sayre, E.C. and Heckler, A.F. (2008) ``Evolution of Student Knowledge in a Traditional Introductory Classroom'', Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2008, AIP Conference Proceedings.
• Rosenblatt, R, Sayre, E.C., and Heckler, A.F. (2008) ``Toward a comprehensive picture of student understanding of force, velocity, and acceleration'', Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2008, AIP Conference Proceedings.
• Sayre, E.C. and Wittmann, M.C. (2007) ``Intermediate mechanics students' coordinate system choice'', Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education.
• Sayre, E.C., Wittmann, M.C., and Donovan, J.E. (2007) ``Resource Plasticity: Detailing a Common Chain of Reasoning with Damped Harmonic Motion,'' Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2006, AIP Conference Proceedings.
• Sayre, E.C., Wittmann, M.C., and Thompson, J.R. (2004) ``Resource Selection in Nearly-Novel Situations,'' in S. Franklin, K. Cummings, J. Marx (Eds.) Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2003, AIP Conference Proceedings.

Invited Talks

• ``Using extant data to predict future data'' E.C. Sayre, American Association of Physics Teachers, Jacksonville FL, 2011 January (submitted)
• ``Changes and Differences in Student Understanding'' E.C. Sayre, seminar at Rochester Institute of Technology, 2009 October
• ``What happens to student performance between the pre and post test?'' A.F. Heckler and E.C. Sayre, American Association of Physics Teachers, Ann Arbor, 2009 July
• ``Understanding student understanding in physics,'' E.C. Sayre, Physics Department Colloquium at Grinnell College, 2009 January
• ``Learning, decay, and interference: Moving beyond the pre/post test,'' E.C. Sayre and A.F. Heckler, seminar to the Physics Education Research and Development Group, North Carolina State University, 2008 September
• ``Detecting changes to student responses over time,'' E.C. Sayre and A.F. Heckler, seminar to the Physics Education Research Group, University of Maryland, 2008 June
• ``Building a response curve to physics instruction,'' E.C. Sayre and A.F. Heckler, seminar to the Cognitive Science Lab, The Ohio State University, 2008 May
• ``Resource development and justification: Examples from damped harmonic motion,'' E.C. Sayre, seminar to the Physics Education Research Group, University of Maryland, 2006 October.
• ``Resources in Physics Education Research,'' E.C. Sayre, seminar to Tedlab in the Brain and Cognitive Science Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006 September.

Contributed Talks

• ``Adding and subtracting vectors: arrows can induce student difficulties,'' A.F. Heckler, T.M. Scaife, and E.C. Sayre, American Association of Physics Teachers, Jacksonville FL, 2011 January (submitted)
• ``Processes of Student Understanding: Traditional vs. Workshop Classes,'' E.C. Sayre and S.V. Franklin, American Association of Physics Teachers, Portland OR, 2010 July
• ``Processes of Student Understanding: Standard vs. Remedial Sections,'' S.V. Franklin, E.C. Sayre, and J.W. Clark, American Association of Physics Teachers, Portland OR, 2010 July
• ``Students' Responses to Different Representations of a Vector Addition Question,'' J.M. Hawkins, J.R. Thompson, M.C. Wittmann, E.C. Sayre, and J.W. Clark, American Association of Physics Teachers, Portland OR, 2010 July
• ``Mapping changes in student understanding during instruction,'' E.C. Sayre and A.F. Heckler, American Association of Physics Teachers, Ann Arbor MI, 2009 July
• ``Evolving Student Knowledge in a Physics Classroom,'' E.C. Sayre and A.F. Heckler, National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) 2009 Meeting
• ``What goes up sometimes comes down: students' changing understanding,'' E.C. Sayre and A.F. Heckler. 2009 AAPT and AAAS Joint Meeting, Chicago IL, 2009 February
• ``Student Understanding of Slope on Physics Graphs,'' A.F. Heckler, E.C. Sayre, and T. M. Scaife. 2009 AAPT and AAAS Joint Meeting, Chicago IL, 2009 February
• ``A Hierarchy in Student Understanding of Force, Velocity and Acceleration? ,'' R. J. Rosenblatt, E.C. Sayre, and A.F. Heckler. 2009 AAPT and AAAS Joint Meeting, Chicago IL, 2009 February
• ``When does learning happen? Building a response curve,'' E.C. Sayre and A.F. Heckler. 2008 American Association of Physics Teachers, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2008 July
• ``Intermediate mechanics students' coordinate system choices for simple pendula,'' E.C. Sayre and M.C. Wittmann. New England Sectional Joint Meeting of the AAPT and the APS, Orono ME, 2007 April
• ``Intermediate mechanics students' coordinate system choice,'' E.C. Sayre, M.C. Wittmann, and J.E. Donovan II, Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education 2007, San Diego CA, 2007 February.
• ``Situating a Common Chain of Reasoning in Damped Harmonic Motion,'' E.C. Sayre and M.C. Wittmann, 133rd American Association of Physics Teachers, Syracuse NY, 2006 August, The Announcer 36(2) 149.
• ``Students' Integration Methods for First-Order Differential Equations,'' K.E. Black, E.C. Sayre, and M.C. Wittmann, 133rd American Association of Physics Teachers, Syracuse NY, 2006 August, The Announcer 36(2) 149.
• ``Local Consistency Without a Global Picture: Plasticity and Differentials,'' E.C. Sayre and M.C. Wittmann, 131st American Association of Physics Teachers, Salt Lake City UT, 2005 August. The Announcer 35(2) 134.
• ``Advanced Mechanics Students' Conflicts Between Physics and Mathematics Intuitions,'' E.C. Sayre, M.C. Wittmann, 129th American Association of Physics Teachers, Sacramento CA, 2004 August. The Announcer 34(2) 184.
• ``Student Selection of Reasoning Resources in Nearly-Novel Situations,'' E.C. Sayre, M.C. Wittmann, 128th American Association of Physics Teachers, Miami Beach FL, 2004 January. The Announcer 33(4) 133.
• ``Q-Sphere: An Iterative Method for Calculating the Lowest Energy Configuration for an Arbitrary Number of Charges on a Sphere,'' E.C. Raulerson (now Sayre), K. Brownstein, Regional meeting of the APS and AAPT, Bates College, 2003 October.

Posters

• ``Time variation in student responses: two related methodologies,'' E.C. Sayre, and S.V. Franklin, The second Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group 18 Educational Effectiveness, Educational Effectiveness: Models, Methods and Applications, Leuven, Belgium, 2010 August
• ``Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) of students' understanding of vector subtraction,'' T. Wang and E.C. Sayre, Physics Education Research Conference, Portland OR, 2010 July
• ``Students' responses to different representations of a vector addition question,'' J.M. Hawkins, J.R. Thompson, M.C. Wittmann, E.C. Sayre, and J. Clark, American Association of Physics Teachers and Physics Education Research Conference, Portland OR, 2010 July
• ``So you're saying\dots': Paraphrase and interpretation in peer physics interviews,'' E.C. Sayre, R.E. Scherr, and H. Close, Physics Education Research Conference, Portland OR, 2010 July
• ``Newton's Third Law in middle school,'' G. Aubrecht and E.C. Sayre, Physics Education Research Conference, Portland OR, 2010 July
• ``Fluctuations in Students' Understanding of Newton's 3rd Law,'' J. Clark, S.V. Franklin, and E.C. Sayre, Physics Education Research Conference, Portland OR, 2010 July
• ``Differences in the Evolution of Student Understanding,'' E.C. Sayre and S.V. Franklin, American Association of Physics Teachers, Washington DC, 2010 February
• ``Resources: a Theoretical Framework for Physics Education,'' E.F. Redish and E.C. Sayre, GIREP-EPEC 2009 International Conference, Leicester UK, August 2009
• ``Tracking epistemological changes throughout a three-course sequence,'' E.C. Sayre, Physics Education Research Conference, Ann Arbor MI, July 2009
• ``Evolution in Student Models of Force, Velocity, and Acceleration Relationships?,'' R. Rosenblatt, E.C. Sayre, and A.F. Heckler. American Association of Physics Teachers, Ann Arbor MI, 2009 July
• ``Changes in Student Understanding of Vector Products,'' E.C. Sayre, A.F. Heckler, and T.M. Scaife. American Association of Physics Teachers, Ann Arbor MI, 2009 July
• ``Using Heuristics to Connect Resources,'' E.C. Sayre, part of Modeling Micro-Processes of Learning and Conceptual Change, a symposium for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2009 Meeting
• ``Evolution of Student Knowledge in a Traditional Introductory Classroom,'' E.C. Sayre and A.F. Heckler. 2008 Physics Education Research Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, CA, 2008 July)
• ``Toward a comprehensive picture of student understanding of force, velocity, and acceleration,'' R. Rosenblatt, E.C. Sayre, and A.F. Heckler. 2008 American Association of Physics Teachers, Edmonton, Alberta, CA, 2008 July
• ``Intermediate mechanics students' coordinate system choices for simple pendula,'' E.C. Sayre and M.C. Wittmann. 135th American Association of Physics Teachers, Greensboro NC, 2007 July
• ``Situating a Common Chain of Reasoning in Damped Harmonic Motion,'' E.C. Sayre and M.C. Wittmann, Physics Education Research Conference, Syracuse NY, 2006 August.
• ``Situating a common chain of reasoning in intermediate mechanics,'' E.C. Sayre and M.C. Wittmann, Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research Conference, 2006 June
• ``Nearly Novel Situations,'' E.C. Sayre and M.C. Wittmann, Physics Education Research Conference, Salt Lake City UT, 2005 August.
• ``The Structure of Intermediate Mechanics Students' Physics and Mathematics Intuitions,'' E.C. Sayre, M.C. Wittmann, Physics Education Research Conference, Sacramento CA, 2004 August.
• ``Resource Selection in Nearly-Novel Situations,'' E.C. Raulerson (now Sayre), M.C. Wittmann, J.R. Thompson, Physics Education Research Conference, Madison WI, 2003 August.

Teaching

Seminar and lecture: Classical Mechanics (PHY310), Electrodynamic Theory (PHY314), Learning Assistant Seminar (EDU330), Intuitive Quantum Mechanics (PHY105)

Laboratory and tutorial: Intuitive Quantum Mechanics; Introductory physics for life science majors, for physics and engineering majors, for engineering technology majors

Service

Physics education research

Resources: Editor, PER Jobs (2007-present); Editor, Web resource on grantsmanship (2010-present); List manager, Graduate Students in PER (2004-2007)

Conference organizer: ``Upper Division Physics Education Research,'' National topical conference for researchers in PER at the upper division. See Grants section for funding details; see Presentations & Publications for papers. 2010 August

Panelist: ``Job searching in Physics Education Research,'' R-M Goertzen (presider), American Association of Physics Teachers, Ann Arbor MI, 2009 July

Working group leader: ``Working Group on Resource Theory,'' E.C. Sayre and E.F. Redish, Foundations and Frontiers of Physics Education Research 2009

Presider: ``Graduate Student Crackerbarrel: How to know who's doing what?'' E.C. Sayre, 129th American Association of Physics Teachers, Sacramento CA, 2004 August

Science education

Workshop leader: ``Integrating Knowledge and Interaction in Analyses of Cognitive Activity'' M. Levin, O. Parnafes, E.C. Sayre, A. Gupta, V.R. Lee, and R. Russ. Half-day workshop at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2010 Meeting

Workshop leader: ``Modeling Conceptual Dynamics,'' M. Levin, O. Parnafes, E.C. Sayre, A. Gupta, and V.R. Lee. Full-day workshop at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2009 Meeting

Judge: Ohio State University Math & Physical Sciences Undergraduate Research Expo (2008), Ohio State Science Fair (2007)

Women in physics: Women in Physics (WiP) and Women in Mathematics and Science (WIMS) at Ohio State University (2007-2009); Saturday Science for Girls at Grinnell College (2001)

Presider: ``Cross-pollination in Science Education Research,'' E.C. Sayre and R. Lindell, Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse NY, 2006 August.

Memberships

American Association of Physics Teachers (PER Topical Group), American Physical Society (Forum on Education), International Society of the Learning Sciences, Cognitive Science Society, American Educational Research Association (Division J) Additional details available upon request.