Tim Klavon

Tim Klavon
Assistant Professor, Science Education
School of Education

Contact Info
Timothy.Klavon@BHSU.edu
605.642.6887
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Dr. Klavon is the Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education. Additionally, he is an active member of NARST and the National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition. His research interests are in cognitive change through and the scaffolding of students' evaluations of scientific evidence and how it relates to explanatory models.

Courses taught:
ED 692 Teacher Wellness and Mindfulness
ED 748 Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Classrooms
ELED 303 Earth and Physical Science for Elementary Teachers
ELED 320 K-8 Science Methods
SEED 413 7-12 Science Methods
SEED 508 Planning, Managing, and Assessing the 7-12 Diverse Classroom

Recent Scholarship:
Klavon, T. G., Mohan, S., Jaffe, J. B., Stogianos, T., Governor, D., & Lombardi, D. (2023). Scientific Evaluations and Plausibility Judgements in Middle School Students’ Learning about Geoscience Topics, Journal of Geoscience Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2023.2200877
 
Gans, N., Klavon, T.G., Haugland, S.S., & Schwiesow, M. (2023) A discovery with Ami Ammonite: Scaffolding elementary students’ scientific evaluations. Presentation, at the 2023 National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. (refereed)

 
Klavon, T.G., Haugland, S.S., Schwiesow, M., & Gans, N. (2023, March 22-23). Engaging Elementary School Students’ Scientific Evaluations about Fossils. In T. Ellis & M.A. Hollingsworth (Chairs), 25th Annual Black Hills Research Symposium, Spearfish, SD, United States.

 
Dobaria, A., Bailey, J. M., Klavon, T. G., & Lombardi, D. (2022). Students’ scientific evaluation of astronomical origins. Astronomy Education Journal, 2(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.32374/AEJ.2022.2.1.032ra

 
Klavon, T. G., Gans, N., Lombardi, D., Bailey, J. M. (2022). The predictive characteristic of students’ evaluations of scientific plausibility judgements. Presentation, at the 2022 National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition Annual Conference, San Diego, CA. (refereed)
 
Bailey, J. M., Jamani, S., Klavon, T. G., Jaffe, J. B., & Mohan, S. (2021). Climate crisis learning through scaffolded instructional tools. Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 39(1–Special Issue: Climate Crisis), 85–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/20590776.2021.1997065