Pearson 9-1 Science

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In compliance with federal testing requirements, Illinois will administer a science assessment to students enrolled in a public school district in grades 5 & 8. The assessment will be administered in an online format and is aligned to the Illinois Learning Standards for Science incorporating the Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS), which were adopted in 2014.

This Illinois Science Assessment (ISA) page will be updated as information becomes available. Students who participate in the DLM alternate assessment will be assessed in science in grades 5 & 8 by the DLM-AA. Students taking the DLM-AA will not take the ISA exam. The ISA is not an alternate assessment.

The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) will adopt the ACT to serve as the federally-required science accountability assessment for Grade 11, effective with the 2024-25 school year, thereby reducing overall testing time. The state administration of the ACT will include English, mathematics, reading, science, and writing.

Adam Pearson, PhD, is an associate professor of psychological science and a member of the graduate faculty in the School of Social Science, Policy, and Evaluation at Claremont Graduate University. His research explores how group processes impact environmental decision making and collective action.

Sustainability challenges like climate change are often characterized as collective action problems, however, beyond political influences, we know surprisingly little about how group dynamics influence how people think about these issues. Work in Professor Pearson's lab seeks to understand factors that make intergroup cooperation challenging for majority and minority groups, and the implications of these dynamics for addressing local and global sustainability challenges.

Current projects are exploring how race, ethnicity and social class influence political polarization around the issue of climate change, the impact of stereotypes and perceived norms on environmental decision making, public understanding of environmental inequities, and factors shaping public engagement with environmental organizations. For more on this work, see SCI Lab research page.

At Pomona, Professor Pearson teaches Social Psychology, Research Design and Methodology, and Climate of Change, a cross-disciplinary seminar on climate change and human behavior, co-taught with Professor Lelia Hawkins, a climate scientist at Harvey Mudd College.

He is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, an associate editor at Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, and has received early career awards from the American Psychological Association and the Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology. In 2019, he was a member of a Nature Sustainability expert panel that explored the role of behavioral scientists, architects and engineers in sustainable design, co-organized by the Center for Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative at UVA. His work has appeared in outlets such as TIME, The Boston Globe, Salon, New York Magazine, Huffington Post, NPR, and The Atlantic.

Dr. Charlotte Pearson in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, with support of co-investigators Dr. Kevin Anchukaitis, Dr. Bryan Black, and Dr. Kaustubh Thirumalai, received a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrument Program grant funding a Mini Carbon Dating System (MICADAS) to measure the amount of radiocarbon or Carbon-14 in organic (and some inorganic) materials at the University of Arizona.

"The new accelerator mass spectrometer will serve as a nexus for next generation radiocarbon applications ranging from solar physics, earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences to studies of art, architecture and the rise and fall of civilizations," said Dr. Pearson. "This grant will build on a unique University of Arizona legacy of innovation and scientific advancements combining tree-ring and radiocarbon science."

Since 2015, Dr. Pearson's research program combining tree-ring and radiocarbon science has been supported by the Malcolm H. Wiener Foundation. This support has put in place the essential foundations upon which a new research facility will be established. Learn more about Dr. Wiener and his interest in using tree-ring and radiocarbon data to understand past civilizations.

With the support of the National Science Foundation, the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition or development of a multi-user research instrument that is, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs. MRI provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. MRI also provides support to develop next-generation research instruments that open new opportunities to advance the frontiers in science and engineering research. Additionally, an MRI award is expected to enhance research training of students who will become the next generation of instrument users, designers, and builders.

Through the College of Science's own linkage - including studies in the life and molecular sciences, earth and environmental sciences, physics and space sciences, mathematics and computational sciences and cognitive sciences - and its external connections to national and international institutions and organizations, students and faculty at the College of Science have access to interdisciplinary resources that can readily address the multi-faceted issues facing society. By preparing students to understand the complexity of scientific research, faculty at the College of Science strengthen their knowledge and understanding of their disciplines in relation to others. Through the nurturing and development of effective partnerships and collaborations, the College of Science is able to share its passion for research and pursue solutions that impact society on many different levels.

What if we could record the activity of every cell in the human brain? If we knew every synapse of every cell, what questions would we ask? Like genetics twenty years ago, neuroscience is preparing for an explosion of data, but the tools and the models we use to understand that data have yet to benefit from modern advances in computer science, engineering, and statistics.

At P[λ]ab, we are building the next generation of modeling and analysis tools for brain data. This involves not only building better pipelines for collecting and analyzing terabyte-scale data, but also designing and implementing the algorithms that will help to interpret these data successfully.

Nothing in neuroscience makes sense except in light of behavior.1 We prefer behaviors like foraging and stimuli like movies because they give us the opportunity to study the brain in something closer to its normal working mode.

The brain functions in a rapidly changing environment and is itself an organ with complex internal dynamics. We favor models and methods that incorporate this behavior, particularly those drawn from the physics and statistics of dynamical systems.

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