Matt Kloser: Education, Discovered.
From banter, bits, and doing it all for the music and the fans, to the animating power of STEM education as a force for good in the world Dr. Matt Kloser, founding director of the Notre Dame Center for STEM Education, shares how “The Story of Science” is an unfinished narrative we can all help write, as well as S’more Than Coffee, playing tennis with John McEnroe, and closing out the show on keyboards with Bruce Springsteen.
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Presented by Institute for Educational Initiatives
Friday, February 28, 2025 12:00 pm
From banter, bits, and doing it all for the music and the fans, to the animating power of STEM education as a force for good in the world
Dr. Matt Kloser, Hackett Family Director of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and founding director of the Center for STEM Education, shares how “The Story of Science” is an unfinished narrative we can all help write, as well as, S’more Than Coffee, playing tennis with John McEnroe, and closing out the show on keyboards with Bruce Springsteen.
MoreMeet the Faculty: Matt Kloser '02, '04 M.Ed.
Matthew Kloser, Ph.D. ’02, ’04 M.Ed. is the Hackett Family Director of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, as well as founding director of its Center for STEM Education and a faculty member.
Kloser’s research focuses on issues of teaching, learning, and assessment in science classrooms with a special focus on biology education. His research includes experimental studies that identify affordances and constraints of learning biology from different text types, mixed methods studies focused on assessment implications for student outcomes, and the relationship between core instructional practices and student outcomes.
Kloser received his M.Ed. through the Alliance for Catholic Education program at the University of Notre Dame and taught high school physics and math for five years prior to earning his M.S. in biology and Ph.D. in science education from Stanford University.