Kristin O'Connell

Science Education Resource Center (SERC)

Carleton College

I am currently working at SERC as an evaluation and education specialist. In this role, I help to design and implement evaluation of educational projects and conduct research related to the assessment of student learning with the ultimate goal of improving higher education student outcomes and building evaluation capacity. 

Prior to my current role, I worked at Carleton's TRIO/Student Support Services as the Quantitative Skills Coordinator and as an adviser. I collaborated with students, staff, and faculty to develop research-based strategies and programming to help support TRIO students' success at and beyond Carleton. This work incorporated student support as well as institutional change strategies.

In the past, I have been involved with On the Cutting Edge workshops and website design; the Carleton Interdisciplinary Science & Math Initiative (CISMI), including the broadening access cohorts (FOCUS, CSSF, and CSSI) evaluation; Sustainability Improves Student Learning project management; GeoPRISMS project assistance and evaluation, InTeGrate website and assessment manager, inaugural Earth Educators' Rendezvous project manager, and more.

Longer bio and example work 

Workshop Participant, Webinar Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Teaching Method Module (1), Conference Presentations (16)

Teaching Method Module (1)

Engaged Pedagogies part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Engaged Pedagogies
Karl A. Smith, University of Minnesota & Purdue University Kristin O'Connell, SERC, Carleton College Congratulations on considering Engaged Pedagogies for your students! This module provides insights into ...

Conference Presentations (16)

Looking Back and Looking Forward: 10 Years of Earth Educators' Rendezvous part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Poster Sessions:Monday Poster Session
2024 marks the 10th year of the Earth Educators' Rendezvous. This presentation aims to highlight the history of the Rendezvous program, from its inception as part of the On the Cutting Edge and InTeGrate ...

Communities

Member of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers
North Central Section
Earth Educators Rendezvous 2022
July 2022 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2020
July 2020 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2019
July 2019 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2018
July 2018 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2015
July 2015 NAGT Webinar Series Interest
MARGINS Teaching Materials Interest Group
Teaching Geoscience Online
Teaching Computation Interest Group
Teaching Geoscience with MATLAB Interest Group
GeoPRISMS Interest Community
CE Embedded Assessment
CE National Geoscience Teaching Practices Survey Research Team
SAGE 2YC Cohort 3 Extension Participants
SAGE 2YC Cohort 3
Teach the Earth
NAGT All

Workshop Participant (25 workshops)

EER 2020 Inquiry Based Labs
July 2020 EvaluatorProject EDDIE Module Development Workshop 2019
October 2019 Using Conceptual Frameworks of Earth Systems to Frame Future Directions in Systems Thinking Research
July 2018

Webinar Participant

ITG Institutional Change 2016 webinar
May 2016 Project EDDIE Developing students' quantitative reasoning skills webinar registrants