About:
During undergraduate study in the department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, I worked continuously at various research labs, including the Army Corps of Engineers ERDC-CERL Lab and Argonne National Laboratory (see CV below). Upon attainment of a BS, I moved to Okazaki, Japan, to teach English for a year. I began graduate study with PERG August 2008. Beginning March 2010, I assisted in the installation of a reformed physics class (Open Source Tutorial) at Tokyo Gakugei University.
Contact Info:
University of Maryland, Department of Physics, 082 Regents Dr, College Park, MD, 20742-4111
Ph: 301-405-6185
Email: mhull12@umd.edu
Research Interests:
- Personal development as a physics teacher
- Utilizing American research results for the improvement of physics education in Japan
- How to increase student acceptance of reformed physics courses
Current Research:
- What effect Open Source Tutorial had on Gakugei's students' attitudes about physics, and how prior constructivist elementary school experiences contributed to the changes.
- How undergraduate engineering students sense-make about math in the context of physics in their physics and engineering classes.
Publications:
• Hull, M.M. Going through an interactive physics class without feeling culture shock. (Japanese) Submitted for publication in Physics Education in University.
• Hull, M.M., Kuo, E., Gupta, A., & Elby, A. Problematizing problem-solving rubrics: Enhancing assessments to include blended mathematical and physical reasoning throughout the solution. Submitted for publication in Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research.
• Kuo, E., Hull, M.M., Gupta, A., & Elby, A. What’s missing from conceptualizations of quantitative problem solving: Blending conceptual meaning with symbolic manipulations. Submitted for publication in Science Education.
• Hull, M.M. (2011, July 29 and August 6). Why was Tutorial more effective at Gakugei University than I expected? (Japanese) Talk given at Tokyo Gakugei University and then at the high school attached to Tsukuba University.
• Hull, M.M. (2011, July 23). Why Tutorial was more effective at Gakugei University than I expected. (English) Talk given at the Institute of Technology, Center of Campus Innovation, Tokyo.
• Hull, M.M. (2011, March). Open Source Tutorial: Why in the world are we using this? (Japanese) Talk given to new Open Source Tutorial TA’s at Tokyo Gakugei University.
• Hull, M.M., Kuo, E., Gupta, A., & Elby, A. (2010, February 16). I'm doing what my teacher says, why aren't I expert-like? Contributed Talk given at 2010 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers.
• Hull, M.M., Kuo, E., Gupta, A., & Elby, A. (2009, July). Undergraduate Engineers' Sense-making of Math. Contributed Poster presented at the 2009 Physics Education Research Conference.
• Marsh, C., Masters, B., Sander, J., Houlahan, T., Hull, M.M., Eden, G., Park, S., Verdeyen, J., Weissman, M. (2008, September). Generation of Ultra-High Current Densities by Electron Emission from Ferroelectric Materials. Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering 50th Anniversary Celebration.
• Masters, B., Kristoff, J.S., Houlahan, T., Hull, M.M., Marsh, C., Park, S., Eden, G. (2008, November). DEGRADATION STUDY OF LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE BASED FERROELECTRIC PLASMA SOURCES. Talk given at US Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Conference in Memphis, TN.
Statement of Teaching Philosophy