Chandra Turpen
- Research Assistant Professor
- Faculty and Institutional Change, and Role of culture in learning science
- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
- Publication -- Assessing the interactivity and prescriptiveness of faculty prof…
- Publication -- Perceived affordances and constraints regarding instructors’ use…
- Publication -- How instructors learn about and implement Research-Based Instruc…
- Publication -- A Vision of Interdisciplinary Education: Students' Reasoning abo…
- Publication -- Assessment of teaching effectiveness: Lack of alignment between …
- Publication -- A Framework for Analyzing Interdisciplinary Tasks: Implications …
- Publication -- The construction of different classroom norms during Peer Instru…
- Publication -- Not all interactive engagement is the same: Variation in physics…
Office: 1312 Toll Physics Building
Department of Physics
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742
I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Physics Department with the Physics Education Research Group at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am also Director of the Maryland Learning Assistant Program and an active leader, “LAgent,” within the National Learning Assistant Alliance. My research agenda focuses on modeling 1) change and development, and 2) the ways in which instructional contexts shape (and are shaped by) participants. These central themes guide my work in understanding how to best foster both faculty and student learning. I pursue projects that have high potential for leveraging equitable change in undergraduate STEM programs and I make these struggles for change a direct focus of my research efforts.