Jennifer Parrish

• Ph.D. Middle Tennessee State University (Biology Education)
• M.A. University of Northern Colorado (Science Education)
• B.S.  Winthrop University (Biology)

• Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado (2018 – Present)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Northern Colorado (2017 – 2018)
• Biology and Science Education Graduate Teaching Assistant, Middle Tennessee State University (2013 – 2017)
• Science Teacher, Greeley-Evans District 6 (2003 – 2009)
• Science Teacher, Union Colony Schools (2009 – 2012)

My research focuses on developing and examining best practices in K-12 education teaching and learning. Topics I focus on are teachers’ epistemological understandings, including the nature of science (NOS), nature of scientific inquiry (SI), nature of engineering (NOE), and computational thinking. I aim to better understand what instructional strategies are most effective to help teachers develop expertise for epistemological understandings and pedagogical content knowledge for NOS, SI, NOE, and computational thinking.