Janis Bulgren

Professional Title
Associate Research Professor
Organization/Institution
University of Kansas (KU)
About Me (Bio)
Janis Bulgren, Ph. D., is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning and Courtesy Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education. She has been instrumental in research, development, publication, and professional development associated with Content Enhancement Routines. Content Enhancement Routines have addressed ways that teachers can mediate student learning so that students learn to process and think about critical content information. Recently, she has conducted research in science classes to help students engage in analysis and evaluation of scientific and socio-scientific arguments based on the work of Toulmin. This research has recently been extended to the development of an educational game to support student learning and engagement in argumentation. Both efforts were supported by the National Science Foundation. Address: Janis Bulgren, University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, 517 J. R. Pearson Hall, 1122 W. Campus Road, Lawrence, KS, 66045; e-mail: jbulgren@ku.edu.
Keywords
Gaming/Virtual Environments

Accelerating Higher Order Thinking and STEM Content Learning Among Students with Learning Disabilities

Center for Applied Special Technology, Inc. (CAST)
09/01/2018

The purpose of this project is to develop and refine an innovative Google-platform based application called CORGI for use with middle school students in physical, life, and earth science classrooms. The new version, CORGI_2, will include supports for content learning and higher order thinking and will pair with the cloud-based applications of the Google environment to offer multiple means of representation, response and engagement as well as videos, models, supports for decoding, and supports for background knowledge.

The Evidence Games: Collaborative Games Engaging Middle School Students in the Evaluation of Scientific Evidence

University of Kansas (KU)
08/15/2010

This project develops a series of interactive on-line games and investigates the effect these games have on increasing middle school science students' and teachers' knowledge and skills of scientific argumentation. There are four areas of argumentation addressed by the games: (1) understanding a claim, (2) judging the evidence about a claim based on type and quality (objectivity, reliability or validity), (3) analyzing the reasoning applied to the claim, and (4) evaluating the claim.