Timothy Klavon

Black Hills State University
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Phone: 267.342.2594

Klavon CV

SLRG member Dr. Tim Klavon has been appointed to an Assistant Professor of Science Education position in the School of Education at Black Hills State University beginning in the Fall semester of 2021. While at BHSU, Tim will be teaching elementary and secondary science methods, as well as other education courses. He will also be working with the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) to strengthen the relationship between the School of Education and SURF. Tim will also be continuing to work with the SLRG team on various research projects.

Research Interests

  • Relationships between student small group discourse and written scientific explanations
  • Impacts of student agency and decision-making in conceptual change activities
  • Curriculum development, interactions between mathematics and English language arts achievement through science curriculum

Scholarship

  • Lombardi, D., Klavon, T. G., Holzer, M. A., & Kendall, R. (2019). Instructional scaffolds to shift students’ epistemic evaluations toward the scientific. Paper accepted for presentation as part of the symposium, “Identifying literacies protective against misinformation and science skepticism,” the 18th Biannual Meeting of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Aachen, Germany. (refereed)
  • Lombardi, D., Klavon, T. G., Holzer, M., & Kendall, R. (2019). Evaluating explanations about water resources: Scaffolds to shift students’ epistemic judgements toward the scientific. Prestation at the 2019 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. (refereed)
  • Klavon, T. G., Bailey, J. M., Kendall, R., Holzer, M., & Lombardi, D. (2019). The impact of evidence choices on students’ plausibility shifts. Presentation, as the 2019 National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. (refereed)
  • Klavon, T. G., Bailey, J. M., & Willoughby, S. D. (2018, April). College students’ understanding of eclipses in advance of the 2017 US total solar eclipse. Modified poster presented at the 2018 National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition Annual Conference, New York, NY. (refereed)
    • Honorable Mention, 2018 Richard C. Anderson Graduate Student Research Award