Ellice Forman

Department: Instruction and Learning
Program: Applied Developmental Psychology
Program: Science Education

Ellice Forman
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5527 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7022
EMAIL: ellice@pitt.edu

Full Time Faculty - Professor

Yamakawa,Y., Forman, E.A., Ansell, E. (in press). The role of positioning in constructing an identity in a 3rd grade classroom. To appear in K. Kumpulainen, C.Hmelo-Silver, & M.Cesar (Eds.) Investigating classroom interaction: Methodologies in action. Sense Publishers.
Wegerif,R., Boero,P., Andriessen,J., & Forman, E.A. (in press). A dialogue on dialogue and its place in education. To appear in B. Schwarz, T.Dreyfus, & R.Hershkowitz (Eds.). The guided construction of knowledge in classrooms. Elsevier Publishers.

Using discourse to leverage student learning: Some insights from positioning theory.
Invited plenary panel presentation at a NSF sponsored conference on Investigating Equitable Discourse Practices in Mathematics Classrooms, Rochester, NY.
Fostering argumentation in a science classroom: The role of hybrid discourse
Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association
The vision and reality of fostering teachers' pedagogical content knowledge
Poster-symposium presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
Redefining disciplinary learning in classrooms
Invited colloquium presentation at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Reviewer for the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation, Young Scholars Fellowship.

"Linking teacher preparation to student learning in mathematics and science." NSF, 5 years $982,411 J. Cartier (PI); E Forman (Co-PI)
"Creating an authentic scientific community in a high school biology classroom: An ethnographic study." Grant awarded from the School of Education to Ellice Forman and Brian Wargo, $2850