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Semsar, Katharine Anne

Associate Teaching Professor

Positions

Associate Teaching Professor, Miramontes Arts & Sciences Program (MASP)

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Dr. Semsar's expertise includes mentoring underrepresented students, implementing inclusive pedagogy, developing extra-curricular academic programming to support student resiliency and persistence, scientific teaching, education research, assessment, and assessment design.

keywords

underrepresented student persistence, inclusive pedagogy

Publications

selected publications

journal article
- Predictors of Scientific Civic Engagement (PSCE) Survey: A Multidimensional Instrument to Measure Undergraduates' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Intention to Engage with the Community Using Their Science Skills. CBE Life Sciences Education. 2023
- Resources for Teaching and Assessing the Vision and Change Biology Core Concepts. CBE Life Sciences Education. 2020
- Tools for Change: Measuring Student Conceptual Understanding Across Undergraduate Biology Programs Using Bio-MAPS Assessments. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education. 2019
- GenBio-MAPS: A Programmatic Assessment to Measure Student Understanding of Vision and Change Core Concepts across General Biology Programs. CBE Life Sciences Education. 2019
- Phys-MAPS: a programmatic physiology assessment for introductory and advanced undergraduates. American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education. 15-27. 2019
- EcoEvo-MAPS: An Ecology and Evolution Assessment for Introductory through Advanced Undergraduates. CBE Life Sciences Education. 2018
- Redesigning a course to help students achieve higher-order cognitive thinking skills: from goals and mechanics to student outcomes. American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education. 194-202. 2017
- Bloom's dichotomous key: a new tool for evaluating the cognitive difficulty of assessments. American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education. 170-177. 2017
- The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS) for Use in Biology. CBE Life Sciences Education. 268-278. 2011
- Influence of Sex and Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Pathways as Determinants in Serotonin Sensitivity. Endocrinology. 3709-3716. 2009
- Fluoxetine-treated male wrasses exhibit low AVT expression. Brain Research. 141-147. 2004
- Multiple mechanisms of phenotype development in the bluehead wrasse. Hormones and Behavior. 345-353. 2004
- Fluoxetine treatment decreases territorial aggression in a coral reef fish. Physiology and Behavior. 719-724. 2003
- Social influences on the arginine vasotocin system are independent of gonads in a sex-changing fish. Journal of Neuroscience. 4386-4393. 2003
- Manipulations of the AVT system shift social status and related courtship and aggressive behavior in the bluehead wrasse. Hormones and Behavior. 21-31. 2001
- Arginine vasotocin increases calling-site acquisition by nonresident male grey treefrogs. Animal Behaviour. 983-987. 1998

Background

education and training

Ph.D., North Carolina State University at Raleigh 2003
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1996

awards and honors

Best Should Teach Award, conferred by CTR TEACH LEARNING, 2019

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ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6759-4080