Ms. Bergey’s research interests include elementary and middle school student learning of science; helping pre- and in-service teachers to become interested in science and comfortable teaching it; uses of educational technologies in teaching science and evaluating learning; problem-based learning; and complex teaching models involving undergraduate students and/or older elementary students, as well as student teachers, to facilitate learning. She is currently studying some of these processes as a group of (mostly premed) undergraduates (PSAA) and EDUC421 students work to enhance science learning and interest in STEM at a local public elementary school.
