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Anne Kern
Research/Focus Areas
  • Teacher development
  • STEM teaching and Learning
  • Science knowledge development
  • Cooperative learning and team functioning
Academic Programs
My Courses
  • ED Core Research courses, both Quantitative and Qualitative
  • EDCI Science Methods, both Elementary and Secondary
  • EDCI Specialty science education topics courses
  • EDCI 570: Introduction to Research in Curriculum and Instruction

Anne Liu Kern, Ph.D.

College of Education
Curriculum and Instruction
Assistant Professor

Campus Locations
Coeur d'Alene

With UI Since
2008
Office: 1031 N. Academic Way
Phone: (208) 292-1402
Email: akern@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address:
1031 N. Academic Way

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814

  • Ph.D. Science Education, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Nov 2007
  • M.S. Curriculum and Instruction-Science Education, Portland State University, Aug 1996
  • B.A. Major: Chemistry, University of California at Santa Cruz, Jun 1982

Dr. Kern is an assistant professor in Science Education with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at the University of Idaho, Coeur d’Alene. She also holds an interdisciplinary faculty position with the University of Idaho’s Environmental Science Program. She earned her PhD. in Curriculum and Instruction-Science Education, at the University of Minnesota in 2007.

Prior to entering graduate school, she taught High School chemistry for 10-years in Oregon. She also has 10-years of experience in chemistry research focusing on Water Quality and Environmental Protection Agency projects. 

Dr. Kern’s research interests focuses on science teaching and learning, science knowledge development, and science integration in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Her current research projects include providing Professional Development opportunities for Elementary School teachers in integrating STEM with literacy strategies; the development and exploration of place-based education practices for STEM; and exploring high school and college students conceptual understanding of basic chemistry topics.

As a researcher on the Micron-STEM Education Research Project, Dr. Kern will lend her experience in teaching STEM discipline in public schools in analyzing the focus group qualitative data. Her insight will help shape the design of the state-wide surveys, analysis, and writing of the research results. Additionally, she will use the results of the research project to provide recommendations for the creating teacher education programs to support STEM content in public schools.



Selected Publications

Kern, A. L., Roehrig, G. H., & Wattam, D. K. (2012) Inside a beginning immigrant science teacher's classroom; An ethnographic study. Teachers and Teaching, 18 (4).


Muthersbaugh, D. R., Kern, A. L., Pegg. J,, & Clark, H. (2011) Science notebooks and "A big waste problem". The Earth Scientist, 27(4), 21-26.


Sato,M. D., Kern, A. L., McDonald, E. J.,& Rogers, C. A. (2010). On the inside looking out: Instantiations of thepractical. Teacher Education and Practice, 23 (1), 66-87.

Kern, A. L., Wood, N. B., Roehrig,G. H., & Nyachwaya, J. (2010). A qualitative report of the ways high school chemistry students attempt to represent a chemical reaction at the atomic/molecular level. Chemistry Education, Research, and Practice, 11, 165-172.

Roehrig, G. H., Kern, A. L., Wood,N. B., & Nyachwaya, J. M. (2010). High school chemistry students’ representation of chemical reactions at the atomic/molecular level. J. Ryan, T.Clark, & A. Collier (Eds). Assessment in the Disciplines, Vol. 5, Assessment in Chemistry. Tallahassee, FL:Association for Institutional Research.

Roehrig, G. H., Kern, A. L., &Kruse, R. A. (2008). Faces of reform: The role of the teacher in curriculum implementation. In F. Columbus (Ed.)Educational Curricula Development and Evaluation. Hauppauge, NY: NovaScience Publishers.

Wu-Norman, K., Kern, A. L., & Moore,T. J. (2009). A Call for Integrating Engineering Through Cooperative Learning in the Mathematics and Science Teacher Education Program. Proceedings Book of 3rd International Symposium of Mathematics and Its Connection to the Art and Sciences. (Editors) B.Sriraman and V. Freiman.