Education

• Ph.D., The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), 2016
• B.S., Marietta College (Marietta, OH), 2011
• M.S., The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), 2013

Publications

• Bogdan, A. M. and Heckler, A. F. (2013), Effects of Belief Bias on Student Reasoning from Data Tables, 2013 PERC Proceedings [Portland, OR, July 17-18, 2013], edited by P. V. Engelhardt, A. D. Churukian, and D. L. Jones.

Organizations

• American Association of Physics Teachers

Presentations

• “How Expectations Guide Interpretation: The Effect of Prior Beliefs on Student Inferences from Experimental Data” Marietta College Colloquium Series, October 2015
• “Student Inferences from Two-Dimensional Graphs with Multiple Independent Variables” Oral Presentation, Summer Conference of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Washington, D.C., July 2015.
• “PER in an Upper-Level Introductory Condensed Matter Course” Poster Presentation, Physics Education Research Conference, Washington, D.C., July 2015.
• “Student Reasoning from Data Tables: Data Interpretation in Light of Student Ability and Prior Belief” Poster Presentation, REASON International Spring School, Munich, Germany, March 2015.
• “Effects of Belief Bias on Data Inference” Oral Presentation, Summer Conference of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Minneapolis, MN, July 2014.
• “Examination of Students' Ability to Interpret Data in Light of Prior Belief” Poster Presentation, Physics Education Research Conference, Minneapolis, MN. July 2014.
• “Effects of Belief Bias on Causal Reasoning from Data Tables” Oral Presentation, Summer Conference of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Portland, OR, July 2013.
• “Effects of Belief Bias on Student Reasoning from Data Tables”, Poster Presentation, Physics Education Research Conference, Portland, OR. July 2013.