Dennis E Showers Professional Publications and Grants

Showers, D.E. (in press). The History of Intelligent Design. In A. White and D. Berlin (Eds.), Improving Science and Mathematics Education:  Insights for a Global Community Volume II. Columbus , Ohio : Ohio State University Press.

Showers, D. E. “Just a theory on teaching theory.” (2005). The Science TeachersBulletin. 68 (2) 1-5

Showers, D.E. (2005). “The Probability of Evolution and the Historical Probability Fallacy.” AMTNYS Journal.55 (1) 5-8

Showers, D.E. (2002). Improving Science Teaching by a Better Grounding in Understanding the Role of Theory. In A. White and D. Berlin (Eds.), Improving Science and Mathematics Education:  Insights for a Global Community. Columbus , Ohio : Ohio State University Press.

Showers, D.E. (2000). First Semester Seminars: Using the study of UFO’s to illustrate the principles of science. In M.M. Grace and M.K. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (ICRSME VIII) , Southampton , England : University of Southampton Press.

Showers, D.E. (1996). Using scientists’ names to learn Russian. Science Scope. 20 (2) 32-33

Showers, D.E. & R.L. Shrigley. (1995). The effects of persuasion on high school students' nuclear attitudes. The Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 32 (1) 29-44. (30% acceptance rate)

Showers, D.E. (1993). An examination of the science literacy of scientists and science educators. (ERIC Documentation service No. ED 362 393).

Holman, J.R. & D.E. Showers. (1992). The teacher into the laboratory and the laboratory into the teacher: teachers experience science through mentoring in an industrial laboratory setting. Proceedings of the thirteenth annual ethnography in education research forum.

Showers, D.E. (1989). The role of research on teaching: popularizing a science of teaching. Compass14(9), 5

Calhoun, L.C., R.L. Shrigley & D.E. Showers. (1988). Designing the nuclear energy attitude scale, Science Education72 (2), 111-128

Showers, D.E. (1987). The Nuclear energy assessment battery. (ERIC Documentation Service No. ED 297 931).

Showers, D.E. (1987). The effect of persuasion on nuclear attitudes of secondary school students. (ERIC Documentation Service Number ED 297 932).

Showers, D.E. (1985). Knowledge and attitude toward nuclear power plants. Nucleus, The Pennsylvania State University , 1 (2), 1-3

Showers, D.E. & Hodes, C.H. (1985). Scouting out an individualized science program. Science Scope, 9 (2), 12-13

Showers, D.E., (1985). Artificial intelligence: teaching machines to think. Journal of the Pennsylvania Science Teachers Association , 5-12

Showers, D.E. (1983). The disposal of high-level nuclear waste. Exchange, 6 (3), 11-14.

Booklets

The Boy Scouts of America . (2005). Energy. Irving , TX : Boy Scouts of America . (Author)

The Boy Scouts of America (2004). Nuclear Science. Irving , TX : Boy Scouts of America . (Second Author)

The Boy Scouts of America . (1983). Atomic energy. Irving , TX : Boy Scouts of America . (Author)

Curriculum Materials

Showers, D. E. (1988). Radiation activities for youth series (RAYS), 2nd ed., The Pennsylvania State University, University Park , PA

Showers, D.E. (1986). Perspectives on energy issues with Dr. Dennis Showers (videotape), West Penn Power Company, Cabin Hill , PA

Showers, D.E., A.E. Marino, and J. Jackson (1984). Energy search, public domain software, Energy Technology Projects, University Park , PA

Showers, D.E. and D.E. Cochrane. (1984). Energy, our useful friend, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park , PA

Showers, D.E. and J. Jackson (1983). Compute your own radiation dose , public domain software. Energy Technology Projects, University Park , PA

Showers, D.E. (1983). Today's atom, The Pennsylvania State University, Distributed by the American Nuclear Society.

Review 

Showers, D.E. (1986). Review of Morone, J.G. and Woodhouse, E.J. Averting catastrophe: strategies for regulating risky technologies, in The Science Teacher, 53 (9), 63-64.  

Works in Progress

Showers, D.E. and K. Rogoyski. “My Great Lesson on Migration.” Science and Children. Manuscript submitted.

Showers, D.E. “A scale model of the galaxy: the mathematics of UFO’s”

UFO’s Science and Society. Ongoing research and development of a book proposal.  

Grant Activity

Career Total: $405,654

SUNY Geneseo Total: $ 313,654

Internal (SUNY Geneseo) grants or unfunded proposals not included.

FIPSE: SUNY Teacher Education Program Assessment Project ($39,441) Overall project administered by SUNY Oswego to develop assessment mechanisms for the SUNY system. Geneseo's project was to develop an alumni assessment instrument correlated to the Commissioner's Regulations and the Conceptual Framework of the School of Education.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Title IIA Competitive In-service proposal entitled "In-service Development of Elementary Science and Mathematics Educators" ($37,000) to work with 50 elementary educators to develop skills and materials to improve science and mathematics instruction during the 1993-94 school year.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Title IIA Competitive In-service proposal entitled "In-service Development of Elementary Science and Mathematics Educators" ($49,000) to work with 50 elementary educators to develop skills and materials to improve science and mathematics instruction during the 1992-93 school year.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Title IIA Competitive In-service proposal entitled "In-service Development of Elementary Science and Mathematics Educators" ($56,000) to work with 50 elementary educators to develop skills and materials to improve science and mathematics instruction during the 1991-92 school year.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Title IIA Competitive In-service proposal entitled "In-service Development of Elementary Science Educators" ($44,000) to work with 35 elementary science educators to develop skills and materials to improve science instruction during the 1990-91 school year.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Title IIA Competitive In-service proposal entitled "In-service Development of Elementary Science Educators" ($40,000) to work with 35 elementary science educators to develop skills and materials to improve science instruction during the 1989-90 school year.

Wilson Foundation Grant ($9,913) to initiate developmental activities for the Science/ Mathematics/Technology Center at Geneseo.

Education for Economic Security Act (EESA) Title II ($38,000) to work with 20 elementary science teachers to improve science instruction skills during the 1987-88 school year.

Development of the Atomic Energy merit badge pamphlet for the Boy Scouts of America. $7,000 funded by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

Energy Education Projects, The Pennsylvania State University

Total Amount: $ 85,000

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