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J. Steve Oliver
Department of Mathematics and Science Education |
Dr. J. Steve Oliver is a Professor in the Department of Science Education at The University of Georgia. He joined the University of Georgia in 1990 after being at Kansas State University. His instructional responsibilities for the University include undergraduate and graduate science teaching courses. Dr. Oliver's research on factors that influence the formation of science attitudes among adolescents has been recognized and utilized at the national and international levels. He received an award from the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science for the best article published in the Journal Science Education in 1990. Dr. Oliver has served as the editor for the Early Times department of the journal, School Science and Mathematics. He was elected as Director-at-Large by the membership of the organization in 1993. His research focus has expanded to include the history and philosophy of science. His work in this area has resulted in a paper presentations at meetings of the National Association for Research and Science Teaching on the intellectual tradition of science as a way of knowing and in a grant from the National Science Foundation that will assist teachers in thinking about how they and their students come to know science.
Research and Teaching Interests
* Affect and Learning
* Continued Student Participation in Science
* Teacher Preparation in Secondary Science
Publications Related to Teaching
Oliver, J. S. (1985). Gravity and the speed of sound. The Science Teacher, 52(9), 48. (translated and reprinted in 1988 in an Italian Physies Edueation journal, La Fisica Nella Scuola, 21, 1, 46.)
Oliver, J.S., Anderson, W.W., & Simpson, R.D. (1989). Darwin, science education, and the method of science. Proteus, 6(2), 5-9.
Enochs, L. G., Oliver, J. S., & Wright, E. L. (1990). An evaluation ofthe pereeived needs of seeondary seienee teaehers in Kansas. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1(4), 74-79.
Lumpe, A. and Oliver, J. S. (1991). Dimensions of hands-on seienee. The American Biology Teacher, 53(6), 345-348. (Abstraeted in Education Monitor, 4(17), 10.)
Oliver, J. S. (1993). Using organized distractions in microteaching with pre-service science teaehers. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 4(6), 77-78.
McGinnis, J. R. and Oliver, J. S. (1995). Teaching about the science topic sound: An inductive analysis of the shifting recommendations made to guide teaching practice during the past century. Proceedings of the Third International History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching Conference: Minneapolis, MN. (A extended version of this manuseript has been aeeepted for publieation by the journal Science and Education.)
Butts, D. P., Jackson, D. F., Oliver, J. S., Butts, D. P., Bellamy, M. L., & Frame, K. (1997). An evaluation study of the teaching of hands-on investigative biology in high schools "On a Shoestring", Education, 118(1), 133-144.
Oliver, J. S. and Nichols, B. K. (1997). What distinguishes scienee studies from other studies? School Science and Mathematics, 97(8), 435-438.
Presentations related to Teaching
Oliver, J. S., Nichols, B. K., French, M. J., & Federico, M. (1994, April). Should we teach how we know? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Science Teaehers Assoeiation, Anaheim, CA.
Doster, E. C., Jaekson, D. F., & Oliver, J. S. (1994, April). Approaches to teaching evolution to fundamentalists students: Insights from interviews with fundamentalist scientists and science teachers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, Anaheim, CA.
Oliver, J. S. (1995, October). A Hands-on Demonstration of Teacher Developed Instructional Materials. A presentation by the partieipants in an NSF funded teaeher enhaneement workshop. Session organizer, at the annual meeting of the National Association of Biology Teachers, Phoenix, AZ.
Oliver, J. S., Doster, E. C., & Crockett, D. K. (1996, January). Pre-service teachers' development of the image of science as "how we know" during sequential teaching methods courses. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science, Seattle, WA.
Grants related to Teaching
October, 1993. Amount: $759,931. Anderson, Wyatt W., Butts, D. P. and Oliver, J. S. (Co-Principal Investigators). Leadership Resource Teams to Implement Interdisciplinary Middle School Science. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
Awards related to Teaching
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, May 1983, Biological Sciences Teaching Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. College of Education, Excellence in Teaching Award, May 1998.
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