Opened Practices Users Working at: Bowling Green State University
Dr. Kristine L. Blair is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Bowling Green State University.
Dr. Kristine L. Blair is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Bowling Green State University, where she has taught undergraduate courses in classroom technologies, language arts, and a fully online writing course for adult learners; and doctoral-level courses in computer-mediated writing theory, research methodologies, and a fully online course that prepares English teachers to teach online. Her book projects include the co-edited Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces (Ablex, 1999), the co-authored rhetoric/reader Cultural Attractions/Cultural Attractions: Critical Literacy in Contemporary Contexts (Prentice Hall, 2000); a co-authored monograph, Composition: Discipline Analysis, which considers of the impact of feminisms on composition theory and pedagogy for the National Center for Curriculum Transformation for Women (Towson UP, 1999); and a co-authored textbook, Grammar for Language Arts Teachers (Longman, 2003). The author of over thirty articles, book chapters, proceedings, reviews, and online publications on gender and technology, electronic portfolios, the politics of online communication, and cultural studies pedagogies, her work has appeared in such journals as Computers and Composition: An International Journal, The Journal of Educational Technology, Kairos, Technical Communication Quarterly, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Works and Days, and The Writing Instructor, and edited volumes such as Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives and Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction. She currently serves as editor of Computers and Composition Online and has a forthcoming co-edited collection, Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice with Hampton Press in addition to a textbook project in development and under contract, CrossCurrents: Cultures, Communities, and Technologies. In 2004, she was named the Outstanding Contributor to Graduate Education by the BGSU Graduate Student Senate, and in 2007 she received the Technology Innovator Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Committee on Computers and Composition.
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Dr. Joyce Eastlund Gromko holds degrees from Luther College, San Diego State University and Indiana University; past teaching includes music at the elementary and secondary level in Iowa, California, Hawaii and the District of Columbia; research concerns the development of children’s symbol use in music and aural perception; member of the editorial board for the Journal of Research in Music Education; articles appear in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, Musicae Scientiae, Music Educators Journal, General Music Today, Research Studies in Music Education, Contributions to Music Education and Educational Theory.
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Dr. Banister is conducting research in local K-12 schools, focusing on the impact of computer technology on teaching and learning. The multimedia reports coming out of this research have been funded, in part, through Project PICT, a national PT3 grant. She has also received funding through the Ohio Learning Network for her work in online course development and from the National Council for Community and Educational Partnerships.
Dr. Milt Hakel's major current interest is in the role of formative assessment in learning and performance.
Milt Hakel is the Ohio Board of Regents Eminent Scholar in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1966 from the University of Minnesota, and served on the faculties at Minnesota, Ohio State, and Houston before moving to BGSU in 1991. He has advised 76 students through the completion of their doctoral dissertations.
Dr. Hakel began his career with research on selection interviewing practices with support from the National Science Foundation. Research support has also come from the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Army, as well as the private sector. He edited Personnel Psychology for a decade, and then was its publisher for 20 years. He chaired the Scientific Advisory Group for the U.S. Army’s Project A, the largest study ever undertaken of the longitudinal measurement and meaning of human differences.
Dr. Hakel is a former Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Scholar in Italy (1978), and completed 6 years as a member and 2 years as chair of the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Psychological Science. Currently he is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Applied Psychology. He is a winner of the James McKeen Cattell Award for excellence in research design from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He served as SIOP’s president in 1983-84. He is a fellow of SIOP, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Hakel chaired the Coordinating Committee for the Human Capital Initiative, a national effort to bring psychological science to the attention of governmental and private sector officials as a source of solutions to national problems. He served on the Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council, and now chairs the NRC’s Committee on the Evaluation of Advanced Teacher Certification. He co-chaired a working retreat on Applying the Science of Learning to University Education, and an edited book on this topic was published in March, 2002. Presently he co-chairs a task force for the Association for Psychological Science on Life-Long Learning at Work and at Home. His major current interest is in the role of formative assessment in learning and performance.
At Bowling Green Dr. Hakel chairs the Student Achievement Assessment Committee and the Electronic Portfolio Steering Committee, committees that have identified learning outcomes in majors and for the university as a whole; electronic portfolios now provide the means for over 22,000 students, faculty, and staff members to document their own learning and development. He created Springboard, a first year experience course that involves students and their coaches in meaningful assessment and self development though a series of activities, some of which are recorded on video for later feedback and reflection. He chaired the team that created BGSU’s Academic Plan and served as convenor for the Strategic Positioning Group. For the Ohio Board of Regents he chairs the Planning Committee on Higher Learning Accountability and Productivity.
Stephen J. Langendorfer, an associate professor and chair of kinesiology at Bowling Green State University, has been involved in aquatics both as an instructor and a participant for most of his life. He has more than 25 years' experience as an infant/preschool swimming instructor and water safety instructor and has been a competitive swimmer for more than 30 years. Langendorfer's introduction to infant/preschool aquatics came in 1971 when he studied at the Deutsche Sporthochschule in Germany under Liselot Diem, who was then conducting an innovative baby swim program and longitudinal study. In 1972 Langendorfer followed suit and established his own toddler swim program in Ithaca, NY.
Dr. Mark H. Gromko received a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Swarthmore College. He pursued graduate work at Indiana University where he was awarded a Master of Science in zoology and a Ph.D. in population genetics. Dr. Gromko has been on the faculty at Bowling Green State University since 1978, with an appointment in the Department of Biological Sciences. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1984 and to Professor in 1991. Dr. Gromko served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Arts & Sciences for three years, beginning in 1994. In 1997 he was appointed Vice Provost for Academic Programs, and has had a variety of responsibilities in the Provost’s office since then. He has taught at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, including courses in introductory biology, genetics, evolution, biostatistics, and population genetics. A productive scholar, his biological research was in the area of evolutionary genetics. More recently, he has co-authored papers on learning outcomes, assessment of student learning, and electronic portfolios.
