Lin Ding, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- E-mail: ding.65@osu.edu
- Office: 288C Arps Hall
- Phone: (614) 688-8377
- Fax: (614) 292-7695
Mailing Address
- 1945 N. High Street
- Columbus, OH 43210
Education
- Ph.D., North Carolina State University
- M.S., Texas Christian University
- B.S., Fudan University
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Ohio State University
Biographical Information
Dr. Lin Ding is an assistant professor in science education in the School of Teaching and Learning. He has extensive experience in discipline-based physics education research, including students' conceptual learning, problem solving and scientific reasoning, curriculum development and assessment design. Prior to joining the EDTL faculty, Dr. Ding was a Research Associate and Lecturer in the Physics Department at OSU.
Research Biography
Dr. Ding's interest concentrates on discipline-based physics education. His research topics include student learning deficiencies in conceptual understanding, problem solving and scientific reasoning, curriculum development, and assessment design. His work embraces both qualitative and quantitative techniques, and often extends to ideas from other disciplines, such as cognitive psychology and statistics. While his past effort has been uniquely focused on the college level physics teaching and learning, he now is seeking to expand his work to lower grade levels (K-12) and to other science disciplines.
Activities and Honors
- Lifetime Award of American Physical Society's Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society
- Nominated Appointment: Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education of The American Association of Physics Teachers
- Associate Editor of Physics Education Research-CENTRAL
- Referee for Journal of College Science Teaching, Physical Review Special Topics -- Physics Education Research, Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings
Selected Publications
- Ding, L., Reay, N., Lee, A. and Bao, L., Using conceptual scaffolding to foster effective problem solving, 2009 PERC Proceedings (2009).
- Ding, L. and Beichner, R., Approaches to data analysis of multiple-choice questions, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 5, 020103 (2009).
- Ding, L., Reay, N. W., Lee, A. and Bao, L., Are we asking the right questions? Validating clicker question sequences by student interviews, American Journal of Physics, Vol. 77(7), 643 (2009).
- Ding, L., Reay, N. W., Lee, A. and Bao, L. Effects of testing conditions on conceptual survey results, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 4, 010112 (2008).
- Ding, L., What's hidden may be crucial: Uncovering Student Ideas in Science: 25 More Formative Assessment Probes, Vol. 2, book review, The Physics Teacher 46(4) (2008).
- Ding, L., Chabay, R., Sherwood, B., & Beichner, R., Evaluating an Electricity and Magnetism Assessment Tool: Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 2, 010105 (2006).
