Nielsen, Wendy S.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2017	Pharmacology students’ perceptions of creating multimodal digital explanations Published in Chemistry Education Research and Practice
2017	Australia’s supervising teachers: Motivators and Challenges to Inform Professional Learning Published in Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
2018	Preparing to cross the research proposal threshold: A case study of two international doctoral students Published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International
2016	Blended media: Student-generated mash-ups to promote engagement with science content Published in International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning
2015	Designing a digital teaching resource to explain phases of the moon: a case study of preservice elementary teachers making a slowmation Published in Journal of Research in Science Teaching
2015	Science teachers’ response to the Digital Education Revolution Published in Journal of Science Education and Technology
2014	Cooperating teacher participation in teacher education: a review of the literature Published in Review of Educational Research
2014	Creating a narrated stop-motion animation to explain science: The affordances of "Slowmation" for generating discussion Published in Teaching and Teacher Education
2014	Students’ conceptions of the nature of science: Perspectives from Canadian and Korean middle school students Published in Science and Education
2013	Explaining and communicating science using student-created blended media Published in Teaching Science
2013	Learning science through creating a “Slowmation”: A case study of preservice primary teachers Published in International Journal of Science Education
2013	Social media use among pre-service primary teachers Published in International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
2012	Preparing action competent environmental educators: How hard could it be? Published in Australian Journal of Environmental Education
2012	The Mentoring Profile Inventory: An online professional development resource for cooperating teachers Published in Teaching Education
2012	Using “Slowmation” to enable preservice primary teachers to create multimodal representations of science concepts Published in Research in Science Education
2011	Slowmation: preservice elementary teachers representing science knowledge through creating multimodal digital animations Published in Journal of Research in Science Teaching
2010	The 5 Rs: A new teaching approach to encourage slowmations (studentgenerated animations) of science concepts Published in Teaching Science
2010	The teacher education conversation: A network of cooperating teachers Published in Canadian Journal of Education
2009	Metacognitive engagement during field-trip experiences: A case study of students in an amusement park physics program Published in Journal of Research in Science Teaching
2008	Culturally-responsive mathematics pedagogy through complexivist thinking Published in Complicity: an international journal of complexity in education
2008	Whatever happened to STS? Pre-service physics teachers and the history of quantum mechanics Published in Science and Education
2007	Accessing science courses in rural BC: a cultural border-crossing metaphor Published in Alberta Journal of Educational Research
2007	Building scientific literacy in HIV/AIDS education: a case study of Uganda Published in International Journal of Science Education
2007	Factors impacting students' decisions around Physics 12 Published in Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education

Research Areas

Research Overview

Associate Professor Wendy Nielsen is a science educator with research interests in science teaching and learning, in particular, how educational technology can be used to support student learning and teachers teaching about science. Grounded in sociocultural theories of learning and multimodalities as means to produce and represent understanding, Dr Nielsen leads an ARC Discovery Project called “The Quality of Learning as Students Create Digital Explanations of Science”. The study is examining tertiary science learners’ production of these media products as artefacts of learning but also the pedagogy behind how instructors use this in assessing science learning. Further examinations will consider how creating a digital explanation helps these students develop communications knowledge and skill.

Other research interests include supervising teacher knowledge, preservice and in-service teacher education, doctoral pedagogy and mathematics education. Dr Nielsen has supervised HDR and Honours students in a range of areas including science teaching and learning, mathematics pedagogy in preservice teacher education, conceptual knowledge development, educational leadership, professional learning for teachers and environmental education.

Dr Nielsen has authored or co-authored over 50 journal publications and book chapters, including one edited book. As of April, 2018, her Google Scholar profile listed more than 825 citations and an h-index of 14, her SCOPUS h-index is 9, and her Web of Science h-index is 8. She completed masters and doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia and was a high school science and mathematics teacher in British Columbia and California prior to graduate studies. She has been a Faculty member at the University of Wollongong since 2009.

Geographic Focus

Australia Continent
Canada Country

Member Of

CHERII: Higher Education Research, Innovation and Impact, Faculty of Social Sciences Research Group Member 2017 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2018	Digital Explanation as Assessment in University Science Published In Research in Science Education Volume Online First Pages 1 - 28 Altmetric
2018	Joining the research conversation: threshold concepts embedded in the literature review Published In Higher Education Research and Development Volume Online First Pages 1 - 14 ISSN 0729-4360 Altmetric
2018	Preparing to cross the research proposal threshold: A case study of two international doctoral students Published In Innovations in Education and Teaching International Volume 55 Pages 417 - 424 ISSN 1355-8005 Altmetric
2017	Australia’s supervising teachers: Motivators and Challenges to Inform Professional Learning Published In Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Volume 45 Pages 346 - 368 ISSN 0311-2136 Altmetric
2017	Development and validation of a social media and science learning survey Published In International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement Volume 7 Pages 14 - 30 ISSN 2154-8455 Altmetric
2017	Pharmacology students’ perceptions of creating multimodal digital explanations Published In Chemistry Education Research and Practice Volume 18 Pages 329 - 339 ISSN 1756-1108 Altmetric
2016	Blended media: Student-generated mash-ups to promote engagement with science content Published In International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Volume 8 Pages 35 - 48 ISSN 1941-8647 Altmetric
2015	Designing a digital teaching resource to explain phases of the moon: a case study of preservice elementary teachers making a slowmation Published In Journal of Research in Science Teaching Volume 52 Pages 1207 - 1233 ISSN 0022-4308 Altmetric
2015	Physics students’ social media learning behaviors and connectedness Published In International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence Volume 6 Pages 16 - 35 Altmetric
2015	Science teachers’ response to the Digital Education Revolution Published In Journal of Science Education and Technology Volume 24 Pages 417 - 431 ISSN 1059-0145 Altmetric
2014	Combining realism with rigour: evaluation of a national kitchen garden program in Australian primary schools Published In Evaluation Journal of Australasia Volume 14 Pages 17 - 24 ISSN 1035-719X
2014	Cooperating teacher participation in teacher education: a review of the literature Published In Review of Educational Research Volume 84 Pages 163 - 202 ISSN 0034-6543 Altmetric
2014	Creating a narrated stop-motion animation to explain science: The affordances of "Slowmation" for generating discussion Published In Teaching and Teacher Education Volume 42 Pages 68 - 78 ISSN 0742-051X Altmetric
2014	Learning wisdom through collectivity: The Women Writing Women Collective Published In NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education Volume 7 Pages 1 - 18 ISSN 1940-7882 Altmetric
2014	Students’ conceptions of the nature of science: Perspectives from Canadian and Korean middle school students Published In Science and Education Volume 23 Pages 1169 - 1196 ISSN 0926-7220 Altmetric
2013	Explaining and communicating science using student-created blended media Published In Teaching Science Volume 59 Pages 32 - 35 ISSN 1442-5556
2013	Learning science through creating a “Slowmation”: A case study of preservice primary teachers Published In International Journal of Science Education Volume 35 Pages 119 - 146 ISSN 0950-0693 Altmetric
2013	Social media use among pre-service primary teachers Published In International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning Volume 10 Pages 3 - 13 ISSN 1550-6908
2012	Preparing action competent environmental educators: How hard could it be? Published In Australian Journal of Environmental Education Volume 28 Pages 92 - 107 ISSN 0814-0626 Altmetric
2012	The Mentoring Profile Inventory: An online professional development resource for cooperating teachers Published In Teaching Education Volume 23 Pages 167 - 194 ISSN 1047-6210 Altmetric
2012	Using “Slowmation” to enable preservice primary teachers to create multimodal representations of science concepts Published In Research in Science Education Volume 42 Pages 1101 - 1119 ISSN 0157-244X Altmetric
2011	Connecting student self-regulation, metacognition and learning to analogical thinking in a physics problem-solving discourse Published In Education Research Journal Volume 1 Pages 68 - 83
2011	Slowmation: preservice elementary teachers representing science knowledge through creating multimodal digital animations Published In Journal of Research in Science Teaching Volume 48 Pages 985 - 1009 ISSN 0022-4308 Altmetric
2011	Using Slowmation for animated storytelling to represent non-Aboriginal preservice teachers' awareness of "relatedness to country" Published In Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Volume 27 Pages 41 - 54 ISSN 1449-5554
2010	Collaborative learning in an online course: A comparison of communication patterns in small and whole group activities Published In Journal of Distance Education Volume 24 Pages 39 - 58 ISSN 0830-0445
2010	Perceptual influence of Ugandan biology students' understanding of HIV/AIDS Published In Research in Science Education Volume 40 Pages 573 - 588 ISSN 0157-244X Altmetric
2010	The 5 Rs: A new teaching approach to encourage slowmations (studentgenerated animations) of science concepts Published In Teaching Science Volume 56 Pages 33 - 38 ISSN 1442-5556
2010	The teacher education conversation: A network of cooperating teachers Published In Canadian Journal of Education Volume 33 Pages 837 - 868 ISSN 0380-2361
2009	An instructional challenge through problem solving for physics teacher candidates Published In Asia - Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching Volume 10 Pages 1 - 21 ISSN 1609-4913
2009	Metacognitive engagement during field-trip experiences: A case study of students in an amusement park physics program Published In Journal of Research in Science Teaching Volume 46 Pages 265 - 288 ISSN 0022-4308 Altmetric
2008	Culturally-responsive mathematics pedagogy through complexivist thinking Published In Complicity: an international journal of complexity in education Volume 5 Pages 33 - 47 ISSN 1710-5668
2008	Whatever happened to STS? Pre-service physics teachers and the history of quantum mechanics Published In Science and Education Volume 17 Pages 387 - 401 ISSN 0926-7220 Altmetric
2007	Accessing science courses in rural BC: a cultural border-crossing metaphor Published In Alberta Journal of Educational Research Volume 53 Pages 172 - 186 ISSN 0002-4805
2007	Building scientific literacy in HIV/AIDS education: a case study of Uganda Published In International Journal of Science Education Volume 29 Pages 1363 - 1385 ISSN 0950-0693 Altmetric
2007	Factors impacting students' decisions around Physics 12 Published In Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Volume 7 Pages 93 - 106 ISSN 1492-6156
2007	Reader's response: Complicity: An international journal of complexity and education Published In Educational Insights: on-line journal of the Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry in Education Volume 11 Pages 1 - 3 ISSN 1488-3333

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Teaching and learning science with digital technologies Published In The art of teaching science : a comprehensive guide to the teaching of secondary school science Publisher Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin Pages 209 - 225 ISBN 9781760528362 Edition 3
2016	Promoting engagement in science education Published In Student-Generated Digital Media in Science Education: Learning, Explaining and Communicating Content Publisher London: Routledge Pages 3 - 12 ISBN 9781138833821
2012	Developing a model for a self-study professional learning community Published In Self-Studies of Science Teacher Education Practices Publisher Dordrecht: Springer Pages 175 - 192 ISBN 9789400739031 Altmetric

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2016	"Fit for the profession": supervising teachers' judgments during practicum Published In AERA 2016 Annual Meeting
2016	Changing Use of Social Media Tools by Preservice Primary Teachers to Learn Science Published In 15th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2016 Pages 198 - 203
2014	Transcending teacher professional development: From determinism to complexity Published In The Asian Conference on Education 2014 Official Conference Proceedings Pages 15 - 30
2013	Combining realism with rigour: evaluation of a national kitchen garden program in Australian primary schools Published In Abstract Book: AES 2013 International Conference Pages 50 - 51
2013	Health promoting schools – lessons from a national evaluation of a kitchen garden program Published In PHAA 42nd Annual conference: Abstract & Program Book Pages 54 - 54
2013	Kitchen garden programs in schools – developing basic health-related literacies and more Published In PHAA 42nd Annual conference: Abstract & Program Book Pages 92 - 92
2013	Learning, explaining and communicating science with student-created blended media Published In Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education Pages 148 - 153
2012	The digital education revolution: New South Wales science teachers’ response to laptop ubiquity Published In AERA Annual Meeting 2012
2011	Engaging pre-service teachers in multimodal learning as animation creators: developing science knowledge through “Slowmation” Published In 2011 NARST Annual International conference
2010	Animated storytelling about "my special place" to represent non-Aboriginal preservice teachers' awareness of "relatedness to country" Published In Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Pages 609 - 619
2010	Articulating constructionism: Learning science through designing and making "Slowmations" (student-generated animations) Published In Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Pages 433 - 443
2010	Teaching for sustainability: perspectives on a collaborative, experiential environmental education subject for preservice teachers Published In 16th Biennial Australian Association for Environmental Education Conference
2009	Validating the Slowmation learning design: comparing a learning design with students’ experiences of learning Published In Proceedings of The Future of Learning Designs Conference Pages 61 - 68

Report

Year	Title
2013	Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program Evaluation: Final Report Publisher Centre for Health Service Development, Australian Health Services Research Institute
2012	Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program Evaluation: Interim Report Publisher Centre for Health Service Development, Australian Health Services Research Institute
2012	Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program evaluation: supporting information Publisher Centre for Health Service Development, Australian Health Services Research Institute
2011	Evaluation of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program: Project Plan Publisher Centre for Health Service Development
2011	Stephanie Alexander kitchen garden national program evaluation: national workshop and webinars report Publisher Centre for Health Service Development

Editor Of

Book
- Student-generated Digital Media in Science Education: Learning, explaining and communicating content. Abingdon, United Kingdom. 2016

Investigator On

Year	Title
2016	The Quality of Learning as Students Create Digital Explanations of Science Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2015	Teacher Mentoring knowledge and supervisory strategies: the use of the Mentoring Profile Inventory (MPI) as an online resource in the practicum setting Awarded by: International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) Funding Scheme: Grant
2012 - 2014	ICT, pedagogy and curriculum in teacher education: building an international network Awarded by: Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Funding Scheme: Insight Development Grant
2011	Learning and teaching in the 21st century: realities and possibilities of social media Awarded by: Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Funding Scheme: Insight Development Grant
2010	Promoting new ways of teaching and learning in science education with student-created digital animations Awarded by: Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) Funding Scheme: Competitive Grants Program

Potential Supervision Topics

science education
nature of science
complexity in education
environmental education
supervising teachers
preservice teacher education
inservice teacher education
professional learning
doctoral education
curriculum and pedagogy
curriculum theory

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	An exploratory study of teachers enactment of food and nutrition education in Australian primary schools	Gorman, Emma
Doctor of Philosophy	Exploring semiosis in Australian tertiary students representation of science within a systemic functional linguistics framework	Turney, Annette
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Investigating the Impact of Mandatory Accreditation on New South Wales Teachers' Lives and Work	Hsu, Ching-Wen
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Integrating social communication in higher education: A case study on the use of Twitter in a Saudi Arabian university	Alaraj, Saleh
Master of Philosophy -SOC	Practical Implementation of Motivational Strategies	Wilson, Thalia
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	How Secondary Mathematics Teachers Plan for and Assess the Working Mathematically Syllabus Outcomes	Ratkovic, Daniela
Doctor of Philosophy	Fractions speak louder than words:Investigating preservice primary teachers knowledge and understanding for teaching fractions with representations	Thurtell, Elise
Doctor of Philosophy	Proposal for a social cognitive investigation into teamwork and teacher self-efficacy for teaching religious education	Elliott, Gregory

Full Name

Wendy S Nielsen

Mailing Address

School of Education

University of Wollongong

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-6200 (confirmed)

Web Of Science Researcher Id

F-2827-2013

Scopus Id

18434426400

Top Publications

Year	Title
2017	Pharmacology students’ perceptions of creating multimodal digital explanations Published in Chemistry Education Research and Practice
2017	Australia’s supervising teachers: Motivators and Challenges to Inform Professional Learning Published in Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
2018	Preparing to cross the research proposal threshold: A case study of two international doctoral students Published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International
2016	Blended media: Student-generated mash-ups to promote engagement with science content Published in International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning
2015	Designing a digital teaching resource to explain phases of the moon: a case study of preservice elementary teachers making a slowmation Published in Journal of Research in Science Teaching
2015	Science teachers’ response to the Digital Education Revolution Published in Journal of Science Education and Technology
2014	Cooperating teacher participation in teacher education: a review of the literature Published in Review of Educational Research
2014	Creating a narrated stop-motion animation to explain science: The affordances of "Slowmation" for generating discussion Published in Teaching and Teacher Education
2014	Students’ conceptions of the nature of science: Perspectives from Canadian and Korean middle school students Published in Science and Education
2013	Explaining and communicating science using student-created blended media Published in Teaching Science
2013	Learning science through creating a “Slowmation”: A case study of preservice primary teachers Published in International Journal of Science Education
2013	Social media use among pre-service primary teachers Published in International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
2012	Preparing action competent environmental educators: How hard could it be? Published in Australian Journal of Environmental Education
2012	The Mentoring Profile Inventory: An online professional development resource for cooperating teachers Published in Teaching Education
2012	Using “Slowmation” to enable preservice primary teachers to create multimodal representations of science concepts Published in Research in Science Education
2011	Slowmation: preservice elementary teachers representing science knowledge through creating multimodal digital animations Published in Journal of Research in Science Teaching
2010	The 5 Rs: A new teaching approach to encourage slowmations (studentgenerated animations) of science concepts Published in Teaching Science
2010	The teacher education conversation: A network of cooperating teachers Published in Canadian Journal of Education
2009	Metacognitive engagement during field-trip experiences: A case study of students in an amusement park physics program Published in Journal of Research in Science Teaching
2008	Culturally-responsive mathematics pedagogy through complexivist thinking Published in Complicity: an international journal of complexity in education
2008	Whatever happened to STS? Pre-service physics teachers and the history of quantum mechanics Published in Science and Education
2007	Accessing science courses in rural BC: a cultural border-crossing metaphor Published in Alberta Journal of Educational Research
2007	Building scientific literacy in HIV/AIDS education: a case study of Uganda Published in International Journal of Science Education
2007	Factors impacting students' decisions around Physics 12 Published in Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education

Research Areas

Research Overview

Associate Professor Wendy Nielsen is a science educator with research interests in science teaching and learning, in particular, how educational technology can be used to support student learning and teachers teaching about science. Grounded in sociocultural theories of learning and multimodalities as means to produce and represent understanding, Dr Nielsen leads an ARC Discovery Project called “The Quality of Learning as Students Create Digital Explanations of Science”. The study is examining tertiary science learners’ production of these media products as artefacts of learning but also the pedagogy behind how instructors use this in assessing science learning. Further examinations will consider how creating a digital explanation helps these students develop communications knowledge and skill.

Other research interests include supervising teacher knowledge, preservice and in-service teacher education, doctoral pedagogy and mathematics education. Dr Nielsen has supervised HDR and Honours students in a range of areas including science teaching and learning, mathematics pedagogy in preservice teacher education, conceptual knowledge development, educational leadership, professional learning for teachers and environmental education.

Dr Nielsen has authored or co-authored over 50 journal publications and book chapters, including one edited book. As of April, 2018, her Google Scholar profile listed more than 825 citations and an h-index of 14, her SCOPUS h-index is 9, and her Web of Science h-index is 8. She completed masters and doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia and was a high school science and mathematics teacher in British Columbia and California prior to graduate studies. She has been a Faculty member at the University of Wollongong since 2009.

Geographic Focus

Australia Continent
Canada Country

Member Of

CHERII: Higher Education Research, Innovation and Impact, Faculty of Social Sciences Research Group Member 2017 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2018	Digital Explanation as Assessment in University Science Published In Research in Science Education Volume Online First Pages 1 - 28 Altmetric
2018	Joining the research conversation: threshold concepts embedded in the literature review Published In Higher Education Research and Development Volume Online First Pages 1 - 14 ISSN 0729-4360 Altmetric
2018	Preparing to cross the research proposal threshold: A case study of two international doctoral students Published In Innovations in Education and Teaching International Volume 55 Pages 417 - 424 ISSN 1355-8005 Altmetric
2017	Australia’s supervising teachers: Motivators and Challenges to Inform Professional Learning Published In Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Volume 45 Pages 346 - 368 ISSN 0311-2136 Altmetric
2017	Development and validation of a social media and science learning survey Published In International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement Volume 7 Pages 14 - 30 ISSN 2154-8455 Altmetric
2017	Pharmacology students’ perceptions of creating multimodal digital explanations Published In Chemistry Education Research and Practice Volume 18 Pages 329 - 339 ISSN 1756-1108 Altmetric
2016	Blended media: Student-generated mash-ups to promote engagement with science content Published In International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Volume 8 Pages 35 - 48 ISSN 1941-8647 Altmetric
2015	Designing a digital teaching resource to explain phases of the moon: a case study of preservice elementary teachers making a slowmation Published In Journal of Research in Science Teaching Volume 52 Pages 1207 - 1233 ISSN 0022-4308 Altmetric
2015	Physics students’ social media learning behaviors and connectedness Published In International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence Volume 6 Pages 16 - 35 Altmetric
2015	Science teachers’ response to the Digital Education Revolution Published In Journal of Science Education and Technology Volume 24 Pages 417 - 431 ISSN 1059-0145 Altmetric
2014	Combining realism with rigour: evaluation of a national kitchen garden program in Australian primary schools Published In Evaluation Journal of Australasia Volume 14 Pages 17 - 24 ISSN 1035-719X
2014	Cooperating teacher participation in teacher education: a review of the literature Published In Review of Educational Research Volume 84 Pages 163 - 202 ISSN 0034-6543 Altmetric
2014	Creating a narrated stop-motion animation to explain science: The affordances of "Slowmation" for generating discussion Published In Teaching and Teacher Education Volume 42 Pages 68 - 78 ISSN 0742-051X Altmetric
2014	Learning wisdom through collectivity: The Women Writing Women Collective Published In NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education Volume 7 Pages 1 - 18 ISSN 1940-7882 Altmetric
2014	Students’ conceptions of the nature of science: Perspectives from Canadian and Korean middle school students Published In Science and Education Volume 23 Pages 1169 - 1196 ISSN 0926-7220 Altmetric
2013	Explaining and communicating science using student-created blended media Published In Teaching Science Volume 59 Pages 32 - 35 ISSN 1442-5556
2013	Learning science through creating a “Slowmation”: A case study of preservice primary teachers Published In International Journal of Science Education Volume 35 Pages 119 - 146 ISSN 0950-0693 Altmetric
2013	Social media use among pre-service primary teachers Published In International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning Volume 10 Pages 3 - 13 ISSN 1550-6908
2012	Preparing action competent environmental educators: How hard could it be? Published In Australian Journal of Environmental Education Volume 28 Pages 92 - 107 ISSN 0814-0626 Altmetric
2012	The Mentoring Profile Inventory: An online professional development resource for cooperating teachers Published In Teaching Education Volume 23 Pages 167 - 194 ISSN 1047-6210 Altmetric
2012	Using “Slowmation” to enable preservice primary teachers to create multimodal representations of science concepts Published In Research in Science Education Volume 42 Pages 1101 - 1119 ISSN 0157-244X Altmetric
2011	Connecting student self-regulation, metacognition and learning to analogical thinking in a physics problem-solving discourse Published In Education Research Journal Volume 1 Pages 68 - 83
2011	Slowmation: preservice elementary teachers representing science knowledge through creating multimodal digital animations Published In Journal of Research in Science Teaching Volume 48 Pages 985 - 1009 ISSN 0022-4308 Altmetric
2011	Using Slowmation for animated storytelling to represent non-Aboriginal preservice teachers' awareness of "relatedness to country" Published In Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Volume 27 Pages 41 - 54 ISSN 1449-5554
2010	Collaborative learning in an online course: A comparison of communication patterns in small and whole group activities Published In Journal of Distance Education Volume 24 Pages 39 - 58 ISSN 0830-0445
2010	Perceptual influence of Ugandan biology students' understanding of HIV/AIDS Published In Research in Science Education Volume 40 Pages 573 - 588 ISSN 0157-244X Altmetric
2010	The 5 Rs: A new teaching approach to encourage slowmations (studentgenerated animations) of science concepts Published In Teaching Science Volume 56 Pages 33 - 38 ISSN 1442-5556
2010	The teacher education conversation: A network of cooperating teachers Published In Canadian Journal of Education Volume 33 Pages 837 - 868 ISSN 0380-2361
2009	An instructional challenge through problem solving for physics teacher candidates Published In Asia - Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching Volume 10 Pages 1 - 21 ISSN 1609-4913
2009	Metacognitive engagement during field-trip experiences: A case study of students in an amusement park physics program Published In Journal of Research in Science Teaching Volume 46 Pages 265 - 288 ISSN 0022-4308 Altmetric
2008	Culturally-responsive mathematics pedagogy through complexivist thinking Published In Complicity: an international journal of complexity in education Volume 5 Pages 33 - 47 ISSN 1710-5668
2008	Whatever happened to STS? Pre-service physics teachers and the history of quantum mechanics Published In Science and Education Volume 17 Pages 387 - 401 ISSN 0926-7220 Altmetric
2007	Accessing science courses in rural BC: a cultural border-crossing metaphor Published In Alberta Journal of Educational Research Volume 53 Pages 172 - 186 ISSN 0002-4805
2007	Building scientific literacy in HIV/AIDS education: a case study of Uganda Published In International Journal of Science Education Volume 29 Pages 1363 - 1385 ISSN 0950-0693 Altmetric
2007	Factors impacting students' decisions around Physics 12 Published In Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Volume 7 Pages 93 - 106 ISSN 1492-6156
2007	Reader's response: Complicity: An international journal of complexity and education Published In Educational Insights: on-line journal of the Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry in Education Volume 11 Pages 1 - 3 ISSN 1488-3333

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Teaching and learning science with digital technologies Published In The art of teaching science : a comprehensive guide to the teaching of secondary school science Publisher Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin Pages 209 - 225 ISBN 9781760528362 Edition 3
2016	Promoting engagement in science education Published In Student-Generated Digital Media in Science Education: Learning, Explaining and Communicating Content Publisher London: Routledge Pages 3 - 12 ISBN 9781138833821
2012	Developing a model for a self-study professional learning community Published In Self-Studies of Science Teacher Education Practices Publisher Dordrecht: Springer Pages 175 - 192 ISBN 9789400739031 Altmetric

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2016	"Fit for the profession": supervising teachers' judgments during practicum Published In AERA 2016 Annual Meeting
2016	Changing Use of Social Media Tools by Preservice Primary Teachers to Learn Science Published In 15th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2016 Pages 198 - 203
2014	Transcending teacher professional development: From determinism to complexity Published In The Asian Conference on Education 2014 Official Conference Proceedings Pages 15 - 30
2013	Combining realism with rigour: evaluation of a national kitchen garden program in Australian primary schools Published In Abstract Book: AES 2013 International Conference Pages 50 - 51
2013	Health promoting schools – lessons from a national evaluation of a kitchen garden program Published In PHAA 42nd Annual conference: Abstract & Program Book Pages 54 - 54
2013	Kitchen garden programs in schools – developing basic health-related literacies and more Published In PHAA 42nd Annual conference: Abstract & Program Book Pages 92 - 92
2013	Learning, explaining and communicating science with student-created blended media Published In Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education Pages 148 - 153
2012	The digital education revolution: New South Wales science teachers’ response to laptop ubiquity Published In AERA Annual Meeting 2012
2011	Engaging pre-service teachers in multimodal learning as animation creators: developing science knowledge through “Slowmation” Published In 2011 NARST Annual International conference
2010	Animated storytelling about "my special place" to represent non-Aboriginal preservice teachers' awareness of "relatedness to country" Published In Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Pages 609 - 619
2010	Articulating constructionism: Learning science through designing and making "Slowmations" (student-generated animations) Published In Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Pages 433 - 443
2010	Teaching for sustainability: perspectives on a collaborative, experiential environmental education subject for preservice teachers Published In 16th Biennial Australian Association for Environmental Education Conference
2009	Validating the Slowmation learning design: comparing a learning design with students’ experiences of learning Published In Proceedings of The Future of Learning Designs Conference Pages 61 - 68

Report

Year	Title
2013	Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program Evaluation: Final Report Publisher Centre for Health Service Development, Australian Health Services Research Institute
2012	Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program Evaluation: Interim Report Publisher Centre for Health Service Development, Australian Health Services Research Institute
2012	Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program evaluation: supporting information Publisher Centre for Health Service Development, Australian Health Services Research Institute
2011	Evaluation of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program: Project Plan Publisher Centre for Health Service Development
2011	Stephanie Alexander kitchen garden national program evaluation: national workshop and webinars report Publisher Centre for Health Service Development

Editor Of

Book
- Student-generated Digital Media in Science Education: Learning, explaining and communicating content. Abingdon, United Kingdom. 2016

Investigator On

Year	Title
2016	The Quality of Learning as Students Create Digital Explanations of Science Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2015	Teacher Mentoring knowledge and supervisory strategies: the use of the Mentoring Profile Inventory (MPI) as an online resource in the practicum setting Awarded by: International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) Funding Scheme: Grant
2012 - 2014	ICT, pedagogy and curriculum in teacher education: building an international network Awarded by: Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Funding Scheme: Insight Development Grant
2011	Learning and teaching in the 21st century: realities and possibilities of social media Awarded by: Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Funding Scheme: Insight Development Grant
2010	Promoting new ways of teaching and learning in science education with student-created digital animations Awarded by: Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) Funding Scheme: Competitive Grants Program

Potential Supervision Topics

science education
nature of science
complexity in education
environmental education
supervising teachers
preservice teacher education
inservice teacher education
professional learning
doctoral education
curriculum and pedagogy
curriculum theory

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	An exploratory study of teachers enactment of food and nutrition education in Australian primary schools	Gorman, Emma
Doctor of Philosophy	Exploring semiosis in Australian tertiary students representation of science within a systemic functional linguistics framework	Turney, Annette
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Investigating the Impact of Mandatory Accreditation on New South Wales Teachers' Lives and Work	Hsu, Ching-Wen
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Integrating social communication in higher education: A case study on the use of Twitter in a Saudi Arabian university	Alaraj, Saleh
Master of Philosophy -SOC	Practical Implementation of Motivational Strategies	Wilson, Thalia
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	How Secondary Mathematics Teachers Plan for and Assess the Working Mathematically Syllabus Outcomes	Ratkovic, Daniela
Doctor of Philosophy	Fractions speak louder than words:Investigating preservice primary teachers knowledge and understanding for teaching fractions with representations	Thurtell, Elise
Doctor of Philosophy	Proposal for a social cognitive investigation into teamwork and teacher self-efficacy for teaching religious education	Elliott, Gregory

Full Name

Wendy S Nielsen

Mailing Address

School of Education

University of Wollongong

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-6200 (confirmed)

Web Of Science Researcher Id

F-2827-2013

Scopus Id

18434426400

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Report

Editor Of

Book

Funding

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