Dr. Victor Sampson

Assistant Professor
Science Education
G121 Stone Building
Phone: 644-1651
Email: vsampson@fsu.edu

Victor Sampson is an Assistant Professor in the Science Education Program. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Zoology at the University of Washington, a Master's degree in Secondary Science Education from Seattle University, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Science Education in 2007 from Arizona State University. Before becoming a faculty member in the School of Teacher Education (STE), he was a graduate fellow at the center for Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) and worked as a science teacher in both private and public high schools. He specializes in argumentation, assessment, and professional development in science education. His work centers on ways to promote more meaningful learning inside the classroom and ways to provide teachers with opportunities to learn within and from their practice in a way that initiates and sustains change. Dr. Sampson has received several awards for his scholarship and for his teaching.

The focal point of Dr. Sampson's research thus far has been on how students engage in argumentation in the context of science and how to make this type of activity more productive in the classroom. His current work focuses on the ways students support and evaluate ideas through discussion and writing in the context of science, group and individual meaning making during argumentation, the development of innovative instructional materials and strategies that emphasize argumentation as part of the doing, teaching, and learning of science, and how teachers' knowledge and beliefs about science, learning, and science teaching affect how they teach.

Dr. Sampson teaches both undergraduate and graduate level science education courses that focus on how people learn, instructional design, and assessment. His teaching philosophy is rooted in theories of learning that stress the importance of experience, interaction with others, the evaluation of alternative ideas, and metacogntion. As a result, his courses tend to engage students in cycles of inquiry, reading, discussion, and a project that requires the application of new ideas and principles to authentic problems.

To learn more about Dr. Sampson's work in science education click here


				Dr. Victor Sampson Assistant Professor Science Education G121 Stone Building Phone: 644-1651 Email: vsampson@fsu.edu Victor Sampson is an Assistant Professor in the Science Education Program. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Zoology at the University of Washington, a Master's degree in Secondary Science Education from Seattle University, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Science Education in 2007 from Arizona State University. Before becoming a faculty member in the School of Teacher Education (STE), he was a graduate fellow at the center for Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) and worked as a science teacher in both private and public high schools. He specializes in argumentation, assessment, and professional development in science education. His work centers on ways to promote more meaningful learning inside the classroom and ways to provide teachers with opportunities to learn within and from their practice in a way that initiates and sustains change. Dr. Sampson has received several awards for his scholarship and for his teaching. The focal point of Dr. Sampson's research thus far has been on how students engage in argumentation in the context of science and how to make this type of activity more productive in the classroom. His current work focuses on the ways students support and evaluate ideas through discussion and writing in the context of science, group and individual meaning making during argumentation, the development of innovative instructional materials and strategies that emphasize argumentation as part of the doing, teaching, and learning of science, and how teachers' knowledge and beliefs about science, learning, and science teaching affect how they teach. Dr. Sampson teaches both undergraduate and graduate level science education courses that focus on how people learn, instructional design, and assessment. His teaching philosophy is rooted in theories of learning that stress the importance of experience, interaction with others, the evaluation of alternative ideas, and metacogntion. As a result, his courses tend to engage students in cycles of inquiry, reading, discussion, and a project that requires the application of new ideas and principles to authentic problems. To learn more about Dr. Sampson's work in science education click here