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. (2009). The role of positioning in constructing an identity in a third grade mathematics classroom. In K. Kumpulainen, C. E. Hmelo-Silver & M. Cesar (Eds.), Investigating classroom interaction: Methodologies in action (pp. 179-202). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Wegerif, R., Boero, P., Andriessen, J., & Forman, E. (2009). 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.

Singer-Gabella, M., Cartier, J., Forman, E., Knapp, N., Kannan, P., Shahan, E., Lancaster, L., Barrick, N. “Contextualizing learning progressions in math and science: A tale of two bets.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Res
Paper presented as part of a symposium on learning trajectories in preservice teacher education.
Forman, E., Cheyne, M., & Ford, M. “The appropriation of scientific argumentation: Building hybrid genres in a biology classroom.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO, March 2009.
Paper presented as part of a symposium on discourse in professional and classroom communities.

"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