Gail Jones

Bio

Dr. Jones is Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor of science education. Her teaching focuses on science teacher preparation and her research examines teaching and learning science. Dr. Jones’ research focuses on learning science in a variety of sociocultural contexts. Her research examines how a number of subgroups learn, including: gender, minorities, and students with visual impairments. Recently Dr. Jones has conducted a series of studies that examine nanoscale science education. She directs the Nanoscale Science Education Research Group that is investigating how people learn scale and scaling, the role of haptics (touch) in learning, and effective strategies for learning nanoscale science. Dr. Jones also investigates virtual reality interfaces for learning science.

Selected Scholarly Publications

• Jones, M. G., Chesnutt, K., Ennes, M., Mulvey, K.L., & Cayton, E. (2021). Factors Predicting Future Science Task Value. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 58(7), 937-955.
• Jones, M. G., Ennes, M., Weedfall, D., Chesnutt, K., Cayton, E., (2020). The Development and Validation of a Measure of Science Capital, Habitus and Future Science Interests. Research in Science Education. 1-17. DOI: 10.1007/s11165-020-09916-y
• Jones, M. G., Lee, T., Chesnutt, K., Carrier, S., Ennes, M., Cayton, E., Madden, L., & Huff, P. (2019). Enclothed Cognition: Putting Lab Coats to the Test. International Journal of Science Education, 42(14), 1962-1976.
• Jones, M. G., Childers, G., Corin, E., Chesnutt, K., & Andre, T. (2019).  Free Choice Learning and STEM Career Choice. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 9(1), 29-39.
• Chesnutt, K., Jones, M. G., Hite, R., Cayton, E., Ennes, M., Corin, E. (2018). Next generation Crosscutting Themes: Factors That Contribute to Students’ Understandings of Size and Scale. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 55(6), 876-900.
• Jones, M. G., Childers, G., Andre, T., Corin, E. N., & Hite, R. (2018). Citizen Scientists and Non-Citizen Scientist Hobbyists: Motivation, Benefits, and Influences. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 8(4), 287-306.
• Jones, M. G., Corin, E., Andre, T., Childers, G., & Stevens, V. (2017). Factors Contributing to Lifelong Science Learning: Amateur Astronomers and Birders. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 54(3), 412-433.
• Chesnutt, K., Gail Jones, M., Corin, E. N., Hite, R., Childers, G., Perez, M. P., & Ennes, M. (2019). Crosscutting Concepts and Achievement: Is a Sense of Size and Scale Related to Achievement in Science and Mathematics? Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 56(3), 241-371.
• Jones, M. G., Jones, B., & Hargrove, T. (2003). The Unintended Consequences of High-Stakes Testing. Boulder, CO.:  Rowman and Littlefield.
• Gardner, G., Jones, M. G., Albe, V., Blonder, R., Laherto, A., & Paechter, M. (2017). Factors Influencing Postsecondary STEM Students’ Views of the Public Communication of an Emergent Technology: a Cross-National Study from Five Universities. Research in Science Education, 47, 1011-1029.
• Delgado, C., Jones, G., You, H. S., & Halberda, J. (2017). Scale and evolutionarily-based approximate number system: An exploratory study. International Journal of Science Education, 39(8), 1008-1024.
• Jones, M. G., Corin, E., Andre, T., Childers, G., & Stevens, V. (2016). Factors contributing to lifelong science learning: Amateur astronomers and birders. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 54(3), 412-433.
• Taylor, A., & Jones, M. G. (2011). Students’ and teachers’ application of surface area to volume relationships. Research in Science Education, 41(3), 357-368.
• Jones, M. G., Taylor, A., & Forrester, J. (2011). Developing a scientist: A retrospective look. International Journal of Science Education, 33(12), 1653-1673.
• Jones, M. G., & Taylor, A. (2009). Developing a sense of scale: Looking backward. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 46(4), 460-475.