Journal Publications

Nature of Science Conceptions and Identity Development among Science Education Doctoral Students: Preparing NOS Teacher Educators.

  • Phillips, A., Rahman, S., Zhong, Q., Cesljarev, C., Liu, C., Ariyaratne, T., McClain, J., & Akerson, V. L. (Accepted). Nature of science conceptions and identity development among science education doctoral students: Preparing NOS teacher educators. International Journal of Research in Education and Science.
  • McClain, J., Cesljarev, C., Zhong, Q., Rahman, S., Liu, C., Phillips, A., Ariyaratne, T., & Akerson, V. L. Developing nature of science ideas and orientations at the graduate level: Better late than never. International Journal on Studies in Education.

Book Chapter Publications

  • Ariyaratne, T., & Akerson, V. L. Linking the existing rural preservice teachers’ understandings of globalization to teach them the importance of learning science. In G. A. Buck, V. Dimitrieska, & V. L. Akerson (Eds) Globalizing rural teacher preparation in the United States. Springer: Dordrecht.
  • Akerson, V. L., Ariyaratne, T., Cesljarev, C., & El Ahmadie, N. Science Education in the Elementary Grades in the United States: Teaching and Learning Science. In Viveiro, A., Cristina de Senzi Zancul, M., & Neves da Rocha (Eds) International Perspectives on Elementary Science Education, State University of Campinas: Brazil.
  • Zhong, Q., Ariyaratne, T., Yang, J., Rahman, S., & Akerson, V. (2021). It’s hard to focus on the content knowledge: Understanding a doctoral student instructor‘s emotional challenges of teaching science during the COVID-19 pandemic. In V. L. Akerson & I. S. Carter (Eds.), Science Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tales from the Front Lines (pp. 93-116). ISTES Organization.

Linking the existing rural preservice teachers’ understandings of globalization to teach them the importance of learning science.

Conferences and presentations

Transgender and Minority Gender Students’ Sense of Belonging in Higher Education: Exploring the Difference Between STEM and non-STEM Majors.

Modeling CO2 microsolvation: microwave spectroscopic studies of difluoroethylene (DFE)/CO2 clusters, (DFE)1 (CO2)x, for a trimer, tetramer, and pentamer – NOGLSTP Out to Innovate.

Modeling CO2 microsolvation: microwave spectroscopic studies of difluoroethylene (DFE)/CO2 clusters, (DFE)1 (CO2)x, for a trimer, tetramer, and pentamer – EIU 

  • Ariyaratne, T., Buck., G. A. (2023, April) Transgender and Minority Gender Students’ Sense of Belonging in Higher Education: Exploring the Difference Between STEM and non-STEM Majors. National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Chicago: IL.
  • Ariyaratne, T., (2023, April) Emerging themes in post-pandemic instructional improvements in Chemistry Education. Science Education Research Symposium (SERS), Bloomington: IN.
  • Ariyaratne, T., Akerson, V. L. (2023, January) We are already a part of it! – Linking the existing rural preservice teachers’ understanding of globalization to teach them the importance of learning science, Hawaii International Conference on Education (HIEC), Honolulu: HI.
  • Ariyaratne, T., Buck., G. A. (2021) Gender minority individuals’ belongingness in Science and Science Education in Higher Education. Science Education Research Symposium. Indiana University, Bloomington: IN.
  • Zhong, Q., Ariyaratne, T., Yang, J., Rahman, S., & Akerson, V. (2023, January). It’s hard to focus on the content knowledge: Understanding a doctoral student instructor‘s emotional challenges of teaching science during the COVID-19 pandemic. Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), Salt Lake City: UT.
  • Akerson, V. L., Ariyaratne, T., Cesljarev, C., & El Ahmadie, N. (2023, January). Science Education in the Elementary Grades in the United States: Teaching and Learning Science. Hawaii International Conference on Education (HIEC), Honolulu: HI.
  • Akerson, V. L., Ariyaratne, T., Cesljarev, C., Liu, C., McClain, J., Phillips, A., Rahman, S., Zhong, Q. (2021, October) Developing Nature of Science Ideas and Orientations at the Graduate Level: Better Late Than Never. Panel presented at the annual International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES). Chicago: IL.
  • Fino, H., Ariyaratne, T., Peebles, R., Peebles, S., Pate, B., West, C. (2022) Modeling CO2 microsolvation: microwave spectroscopic studies of difluoroethylene (DFE)/CO2 clusters, (DFE)1 (CO2)x, for a trimer, tetramer, and pentamer. International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Urbana-Champaign: IL.