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Center's Research Publications.

Bers, M & Boudreau, L (in press) *"Parents, Children, and Technology:
Making Robots, Exploring Cultural Heritage, and Learning Together* Young Children, NAYEC

Bers, M & Portsmore, M (in press) "Teaching Partnerships: Early childhood and engineering students teaching math and science through
robotics"* Journal of Science Education and Technology *

Bers, M, New, B. & Boudreau, L (2004) "Teaching and learning when no one is expert: Children and parents explore technology"* Journal of Early Childhood Research and Practice. (http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v6n2/bers.html)*

Bers, M, Ponte,I, Juelich, K, Viera, A, Schenker, J (2002)*"Teachers as
Designers: Integrating Robotics in Early Childhood Education"* Information Technology in Childhood Education. (2002), AACE 123-145 (http://ase.tufts.edu/devtech/BersITCE.pdf )

Bers, M. & Urrea, C (2000) *"Technological Prayers: Parents and Children Working with Robotics and Values"*. In "Robots for Kids: Exploring New Technologies for Learning Experiences". Edited by A. Druin & J. Hendler.
NY: Morgan Kaufman, pp. 194-217.

Cejka, E. (2005). Inservice Teachers? Approaches to Open-Ended Engineering Design Problems and the Engineering Design Process. Master?s thesis, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.

Cejka, E., Rogers, C., & Portsmore, M. (in press). Kindergarten robotics: Using engineering to motivate math, science, and engineering literacy in elementary school. International Journal of Engineering Education.

Cejka, E. & Rogers, C. (2005). Inservice teachers and the engineering design process. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Portland, OR.

Cejka, E., Pickering, M., Conroy, K., Moretti, L. & Portsmore, M. (2005). What do college engineering students learn in K-12 classrooms? :  Understanding the development of citizenship & communication skills. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Portland, OR.

Cyr, M., Miraglia, V., Nocera, T., and Rogers, C. (1997). A Low-Cost, Innovative Methodology for Teaching Engineering Through Experimentation, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, April 1997.

Cyr, M., C.B. Rogers, "Enhancing Education with LEGO bricks and Paperclips," FEDSM98-5137, 1998.

Erwin, B., M. Cyr, C.B. Rogers, "LEGO Engineer and ROBOLAB: Teaching Engineering with LabVIEW from Kindergarten to Graduate School." Vol 16., No. 3 International Journal of Engineering Education, 2000.

Jones, J., Lehrman, P. and Rogers, C., (2002) "Using musical instruments as an engineering educational medium", Proceeding of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston 2002

Jones IV, Jesse N., Chris B. Rogers, Livia Racz, "Musical Instrument Engineering Program at Tufts University", Journal of Engineering Education, 101-103, 2001

Knight, M. (2003, June 2003). Leveraging Experience to Accelerate Progress (LEAP): Moving Towards Gender Equity in Engineering Education, from www.ceeo.tufts.edu/leap

Knight, M., & Cunningham, C. (2004a). Building a Structure of Support: An Inside Look at the Structure of Women in Engineering Programs. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 10(1), 1-20.

Knight, M., & Cunningham, C. (2004b, June 2004). Draw an Engineer Test (DAET): Development of a Tool to Investigate Students' Ideas about Engineers and Engineering. Paper presented at the American Society of Engineering Education, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Knight, M., & Cyr, M. (2004, June 12-14, 2004). Engineering in the Classroom: Teacher's Strategies for Assessing Open Ended Engineering Design Projects. Paper presented at the WEPAN, Albuquerque, NM.

Knight, M., & Rogers, C. (2004, August 14-17, 2004). Gather Round the ROBOTable: Improving Distance Learning through Innovative Interaction Technology. Paper presented at the International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies, Austin, Texas.

Knight, M., Wong, P., Browning, C., & Ingraham, S. (2004, April 2004). 4 Schools for Women in Engineering (WIE): Creating Partnerships for Gender Equity. Paper presented at the ASEE Regional Conference, Boston, MA.

Lau, P., McNamara, S., Rogers, C., Portsmore, M., LEGO Robotics in Engineering. To be included in the proceeds of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Exposition and Conference, New Mexico, June 2001.

McNamara, S., Portsmore, M.,  Cyr, M., and Rogers, C. (2000) Teaching Experimentation Techniques, Fluid Mechanics, Dynamics, Heat Transfer and Controls with LEGO Bricks, ASEE, 2000.

McNamara, S., Cyr, M., Rogers, C., and Bratzel, B. (1999) "LEGO Bricks Sculptures and Robotics in Education." ASEE 1999.

Milto, E., Rogers, C. and Portsmore, M., (2002). "Gender Differences in Confidence Levels, Group Interactions, and Feelings About Competition in an Introductory Robotics Course" Proceeding of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston 2002

Milto, E., Rogers, C. and Portsmore, M.(2002). "Gender Differences in an Introductory Engineering Robotic Learning Experience" Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Education, Manchester, UK 2002

Osborne, J., Erwin, B., Cyr, M., Rogers, C. (1998) "A Creative and Low-Cost Method of Teaching Hands-On Engineering Experimentation Using Virtual Instrumentation," Laboratory Robotics and Automation, Vol. 10, No.2, 1998. pp.63-66

Pols, Y., C.B. Rogers and I.N. Miaoulis, Making Eighth Grade Science Exciting Through Aeronautics, Int. Jrnl. Engng. Ed., Vol. 83, 3, 243, 1994.

Portsmore, M.D. and C.B. Rogers, "Bringing Engineering to Elementary School", to appear in Jrnl. STEM Ed., 2004.

Portsmore, M., Cyr, M., Rogers, C., Integrating the Internet, LabVIEW, and Lego Bricks into Modular Data Acquisition and Analysis Software for K-College. Computers in Education Journal VOl. XI. No. 2 April- June 2001

Portsmore, M., Rogers, C., Lau, P., and Danahy, E.. "Remote Sensing and Tele-robotics for Elementary and Middle School Via The Internet." Computers in Education Journal. Vol XIV No 2 April - June 2004. pgs 72 - 75

Portsmore, M, Rogers, C., Lau, P.,  and Danahy, E., "Remote Sensing and Tele-robotics for elementary and middle school via the Internet" ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, Nashville 2003

Portsmore, M., Rogers, C., Pickering, M., "STOMP: Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program" ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings,, Nashville 2003

Portsmore, M., Rogers, C., and Cyr, M. (2000). Integrating the Internet, LabVIEW, and Lego Bricks into Modular Data Acquisition and Analysis Software for K-College, ASEE, 2000.

Portsmore, M., (1999) ROBOLAB: Intuitive Robotic Programming Software to Support Life Long Learning, APPLE Learning Technology Review, Spring/Summer 1999

Portsmore, M., Kearns, S.A., Barsosky, J., Rogers, C.B., Rogers, C., (2001) Successful methods for introducing engineering into the first grade classroom , Conference Proceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition.

Portsmore, M., Pickering, M., Rogers. C., (2003) STOMP - Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program. Conference Proceedings of the American Society For Engineering Education, Nashville 2003.

Racz, L, and C.B. Rogers, (1999) "Wet Fluid Mechanics: A Hands-On Approach In Proceedings FEDSM-99, 3rd ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1999.

Rogers, C., Portsmore, M. (in review). "Bringing Engineering to Elementary School" Journal of SMET Education: Innovations and Research. Special issue on Resources for Pre-college Education

Rogers, C., Milto, E., Portsmore, M. (2003) "LEGO Based Engineering Modules For Adult Learning.". Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Nashville 2003

Rogers, C., Portsmore, M., Data acquisition in the dorm room: Teaching experimentation techniques using LEGO Materials. To be included in the proceeds of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Exposition and Conference, New Mexico, June 2001.

Rogers, C.B., Kearns, S.A., Rogers, C.M., Barsosky, J., Portsmore, M., Successful methods for introducing engineering into the first grade classroomProceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Exposition and Conference, New Mexico, June 2001.

Rogers, C., Cyr, M., McDonald, J., and Nocera, T. (1998). "The Design and Performance of Musical Instruments." ASEE 3553-98, 1998. (won best paper award)

Wang. E., LaCombe, J., and Rogers, C., "Using LEGO Bricks to Conduct Engineering Experiments," proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, session 2756, Salt Lake City, UT, June 2004.

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