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EDUCATION: All, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109
                     B.A.   Major: Psychology with Honors and Distinction Minor: Sociology
                     M.A.  Major: Sociology (Social Psychology) Minor: Psychology
                     Ph.D.  Major: Sociology (Social Psychology) Minor: Statistics/Mathematics
 
 

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At the Florida State University: Assistant to Associate Professor in Sociology, 1973-1999; Associate Professor Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, 2000- (Program Leader, Learning and Cognition, 2001- 2009). Responsibilities include conducting research, teaching graduate courses in research  methods, statistics (introductory; general linear model; structural equation models; loglinear analysis) and social psychology (social cognition, group dynamics) and undergraduate courses in educational psychology.

Program Director, Learning and Cognition 2001-2009
Program Leader, Educational Psychology 2006-2009

Previous occupational experience:  research assistant in statistics,  research methods, statistical programming (SPSS, EQS, OSIRIS, LISREL, MIDAS, etc.),  social  psychology (public opinion surveys; experiments; field and participant observation).

Include: University of Michigan Honors Program; Freshman Hopwood Writing Award; Senior Academic Honors Award; B.A. with Honors and Distinction; Phi Beta Kappa;  Rackham Block Grant and two years graduate Ford  Foundation fellowships; Sociology  honorary Alpha Kappa Delta; Who's Who in the South and Southwest; Who's Who of American Women; Who's Who in America; Who's Who in American Education; Certificate of Appreciation, Crisis Intervention Counseling;  COFRS Award, Florida State University, Teaching Incentive Program Award (1994), Florida State University, President's Travel Awards (1996 and 2000); Blackboard/CourseInfo Training Summer Award (2000); Technology Infusion Award, College of Education (2001); American Statistical Association - NSF Research Fellow (2003).

Grants from:

• The NICHHD
• The National Institute of Aging (1988)
• The Leon County Public Health Department and the Health Coalition of Leon County (1998)
• The National Science Foundation Database Fellow (1999)
• The National Science Foundation (Science Resources Statistics [SRS], 2002-2003).
• The Association for Institutional Research, the NSF (SRS), and the National Center for Education Statistics (one award, combined, 2003)
• Research Fellow of the American Statistical Association/NSF-SRS, awarded 2003
• The American Educational Research Association 2005-2008
• The National Science Foundation (SRS) 2006-2008

I am a licensed professional consultant, The City of Tallahassee D/B/A "The Number Cruncher"

My consulting on methods, statistics, evaluation, group dynamics, opinion research, and the public understanding of science has served several agencies. A sample is below:
 

Initiator and Director, Project TAL, omnibus survey of the Tallahassee Florida urban area, 1974-1997.

    Area surveys 1974 - 1981
    Random digit dial telephone surveys 1985 - 1997
 
 

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BOOK: S.C. Losh, Group Behavior in Organizations. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc., 2011,  1-246. ISBN 978-1-9359663-0-2.

ARTICLES, CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

S. Hesselbart (and others), "Attitudes and Action:  A Field Experiment Joined to a General Population Survey." American Sociological Review, 1973 (October): 625-236.

S. Hesselbart,  "Education, Ethnic Stereotypes and Question  Format."  Sociology and Social Research, 1975 (April): 266-273.

S. Hesselbart, "Attitudes Toward Women and their Implications for  the  Status of Women in Public and Private Employment." Governmental Research Bulletin, Institute for Social Research, Florida State University, 12 (No. 2, entire), 1975.

S. Hesselbart and H. Schuman, "Racial Attitudes, Educational Level and a Personality Measure." Public Opinion Quarterly, 1976, 40 (Spring): 108-114.

S. Hesselbart, "A Comparison of Attitudes Toward Women and Attitudes Toward Blacks in  a Southern City." Sociological Symposium, 1976 (Fall): 45-68.

S. Hesselbart, "Men and Women on the Tube: Sex and Sex Stereotypes on Television." Eighth  Annual Association for Consumer Research Proceedings. Ann Arbor, MI: Braun-Braunfield, 1977.

S. Hesselbart, "Women Doctors Win and Male Nurses Lose: A Study of Sex Role and Occupational Stereotypes." Sociology of Work and Occupations, 1977 (February): 49-62.

S. Hesselbart, "Sex Role and Occupational Stereotypes: Three Studies of Impression Formation."  Sex  Roles: A Journal of Research, 1977 (October): 49-62.

S.  Hesselbart and A. Bayer, "Gender and Post-Secondary Education: Evolution, Not  Revolution"  in  D.E.  Drew  (ed.) Increasing  Student Development  Options in College. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, New Directions for Education and Work series, 4, December, 1978.

S. Hesselbart, "Racial  Stereotypes,  Gender  Stereotypes and Question Format." Social Science Quarterly, 1978 (September): 338-346.

S. Hesselbart, "Sexism  and  Socialization: Another Look." The Review of Education. 1979 (Fall): 363-368.

S. Hesselbart, "An Evaluation of Theories About Sex Roles: The Clash of Idealism and  Reality." Eleventh Annual Association for Consumer Research Proceedings. Ann Arbor, MI: Braun-Braunfield, 1980.

S. Hesselbart (and others), "The Significance of Gender as a Social and Demographic Correlate of Sex Role Attitudes." Sociological Focus, 1980 (October): 383-396.

S. Losh-Hesselbart,  "Sex Roles" in The Professional Resource for SOCIOLOGY. New York: Knopf, 1985, 53-70.

S. Losh-Hesselbart, "Development of Gender Roles." Chapter 20 in M. Sussman and S. Steinmetz (eds.), Handbook of Marriage and the Family (second edition). New York: Praeger Publishers, 1987, 535-563.
 

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S. Losh-Hesselbart, "Religion in the Public Schools: A Study of Attitudes Among Florida Residents.” Florida Public Opinion, 3 (No 1, Winter), 1988: 2-12.

D. Crews and S. Losh, "Structural Modeling of Blood Pressure in Samoans." Collegium Antropologicum, 18 (1), 1994: 101-113.

Synopsized work in Attitudes and Beliefs about Science and Reasoning:

"There's One Born Every Minute...", New Scientist, 1996, 149 (No. 2018, February 24): 14.
"When Science and Beliefs Collide", Science News, 1996, 149 (No. 23, June 8): 360-361.

S.C. Losh, A.W. Wasserman, and M.A. Wasserman. 1999. “Summons Responses and Jury Duty Attitudes.” Off the Record!, 9 (No. 4, November:) 2-3.

S.C. Losh, A.W. Wasserman and M.A. Wasserman. 2000. “‘Reluctant jurors:’ What summons responses reveal about jury duty attitudes.”Judicature, 83 (No. 6:) 304-310.

S.C. Losh. 2001. "Science and Pseudoscience."  Public Perspective, 2001, 12 (5: September/October:) 24-26.

A synopsis of this article appeared in Popular Science as “Who is the Weakest Link?,” 2002, 259 (No. 7, January:) 29.

A synopsis of this article appeared in the online compilation: HighBeam Research, IIE Solutions, December 2002:

Archived at Find Articles

S.C. Losh. 2003. "On the Application of Social Cognition and Social Location to Creating Causal Explanatory Structures.” Educational Research Quarterly, 26 (No. 3: March:) 17-33.

S.C. Losh. 2003.  "How Educational Level Influences The Gender Digital Chasm in Computer and Internet Access and Use: 1983-2000." IT & Society, 1 (No. 4, Spring:) 73-86.

S.C. Losh. 2003. " Gender and Educational Digital Gaps: 1983-2000." IT & Society, 1 (No. 5, Summer:) 56-71.

Archived  at: GSDL: Gender and Science Digital Library

For an online edition (figures not available) please click HERE

Also archived in its entirety (without figures) in Red Nova: Science, Space and Technology News

Also archived in its entirety (without figures) at Cancer-Articles.com

Also archived in its entirety (without figures) at the 24 Hour Scholar

Archived by link under "Scientific Literacy" at NASA Headquarters Library

C.M. Tavani and S.C. Losh, 2003. "Motivation, Self-Confidence, and Expectations as Predictors of the Academic Performances Among  High School Students." Child Study Journal, 33, Part 3: 141-152.

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(I can't quite figure out how Amazon got into the article selling business, neither Chris nor I receive any profit!)

Most frequently accessed article in the online Social Science Computer Review January 2005.
Among the top 50 most frequently accessed articles December 2004 - January 2006.

S.C. Losh.2004.  “Pseudoscience Beliefs.” In John Geer (ed.), Public Opinion and Polling Around the World: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc.: pp. 299-310.

Read about this monumental encyclopedia HERE

S.C. Losh. “Generational and Educational Effects on Basic U.S. Adult Civic Science Literacy,”  pp. 836-845 In The Korean Science Foundation and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology: the refereed Proceedings of The Ninth International Conference on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST-9), 2006.

H. Gao, E. Shen, S.C. Losh & J. Turner (2007). A review of studies on collaborative concept mapping: What have we learned about the technique and what is next? Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 18 (No. 4:) 479-492.
 
 

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S.C. Losh, R. Wilke & M. Pop (2008), Some methodological issues with “Draw a Scientist Tests” among young children.International Journal of Science Education, 30 (No. 6:) 773-792.

R. Wilke and S.C. Losh (2008). “Beyond belief: Choice of instructional strategies among preservice teachers.”Action in Teacher Education, 30 (3, Fall:) 64-73. Nominated for Distinguished Research Award in Teacher Education by the Association of Teacher Educators, 2009.

K.P. Saenz, R.  Fowers & S.C. Losh (2009). Instructor's Classroom Kit for D. Boyd and H. Bee, Lifespan Development, Volumes 1 and 2  (5th edition). Boston: Pearson, Allyn & Bacon.

S.C. Losh (2009): , "Generation versus Aging, and Education, Occupation, Gender and Ethnicity Effects in U.S. Digital Divides" (refereed) in The Proceedings: The Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy (October 2-3, 2009). First look HERE.

S. C. Losh (2010). "Stereotypes about Scientists Over Time among U.S. Adults: 1983 and 2001." Public Understanding of Science, 19 (No. 3:) 372-382. First published April 7 2009 OnlineFirst at Public Understanding of Science Sage's site: http://pus.sagepub.com/pap.dtl

    Among the top 50 most frequently accessed articles May 2010 - January 2011.

S.C. Losh (2010). “Generation, Education, Gender and Ethnicity in American Digital Divides”. Chapter 11 (refereed) in Ferro, E., Dwivedi, Y.K., Gil-Garcia, J.R., and Williams, M.D. (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 196-222. . View it HERE.

R.A. Eve, S.C. Losh & B. Nzekwe (2010), "Lessons from the Social Psychology of Evolution Warfare: Good Science Alone is not Enough." Evolution: Education and Outreach, 3 (No. 2, June): 183-192.

S.C. Losh (2010).  “Autocorrelation.”  Invited chapter in N. J. Salkind  (Ed.),  The Encyclopedia of Research Design. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

S.C. Losh (2010).  “Loglinear Models.”  Invited chapter in N. J. Salkind  (Ed.),  The Encyclopedia of Research Design. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

S.C. Losh (2010)  “Sampling Error.”  Invited chapter in N. J. Salkind  (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Research Design. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

S.C. Losh & B. Nzekwe (2011). "Creatures in the Classroom: Preservice Teacher Beliefs about Fantastic Beasts, Magic, Extraterrestrials, Evolution and Creationism.” Science & Education. 20 (No. 5-6:) 473-489. Online First edition HERE. (Among the 5 top accessed articles in May 2011.)

S.C. Losh and B. Nzekwe (2011) “The influence of education major: How diverse preservice teachers view pseudoscience topics.” Journal of Science, Education and Technology 20 (October): 579-591.
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S.C. Losh (2012). "Age, Generational, and Educational Effects on American Adult Public Understanding of Science." Invited chapter in Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla and Nick Allum (eds.), The Culture of Science - How does the Public relate to Science across the Globe? NY: Routledge: 55-75.

R.A. Wilke and S.C. Losh (2012). “Exploring mental models of learning and instruction in teacher education”. Action in Teacher Education, 34 (3:) 221-238.

S.C. Losh (2013). “Introduction,” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 33 (February-April:) 3-5.

S.C. Losh (2013) “Science under siege?” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 33 (June-August:) 1-4.

S.C. Losh (2013). “Dickens reconsidered or, data under siege?” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 33 (October-December:) 135-137.

S.C. Losh (2014).  “Are public education…science museums under siege?”  Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society,  34 (February-April:) 3-6.

S.C. Losh and B. Nzekwe (2015). ““Undergraduate Research Engagement among STEM Majors” The Chemist,  88 (No. 1:) 13-25.

S.C. Losh, "Behaviourism". In C. Epstein (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Social Theory. London: Wiley-Blackwell, in press (expected 2015).

S.C. Losh, "Independent, Dependent, and Mediating Variables". In C. Epstein (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Social Theory. London: Wiley-Blackwell, in press.

S.C. Losh, "Group Dynamics". In C. Epstein (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Social Theory. London: Wiley-Blackwell, in press.

Currently submitted: S.C. Losh, B. Nzekwe, and J. O’Shea, “Constructing a Researcher Identity: How Background Factors and Research Experiences Influence Undergraduates”.

In preparation for submission: S.C. Losh, B. Nzekwe, and J. O’Shea, “What Happened? Student Perceived Outcomes of a Research Experience."

In preparation for submission: S.C. Losh, “It’s in the Details: Gender, Educational Dimensions, and Adult Civic Science Literacy Over Time.” (Journal of Higher Education)

In preparation for submission, S.C. Losh, M.J. Quinn and R.A. Wilke “Danger: Problems with an exclusive research focus on preservice and inservice teacher pedagogical surveys.”
 

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S. Hesselbart, "Self-Concept, Personality Correlates and Need Achievement in Honors College Women." American  Sociological Association, 1972.

S. Hesselbart (and others), "Attitudes  and  Action:  A Field Experiment Joined to a General Population Survey." American Sociological Association, 1972.

S. Hesselbart, "Education, Ethnic  Stereotypes  and  Question  Format," Southern Sociological Society, 1974.

S.  Hesselbart,   "Patterns  of  White  Racial  Beliefs and Attitudes," American Association for Public Opinion Research, 1974.

S. Hesselbart, "Processes of Information Seeking and Evaluation in Clientele Judgment  Groups: A Preliminary  Statement," Southern Sociological Society, 1975.

S. Hesselbart, "A Theory of Attribution, Information-Seeking and Evaluation in Clientele  Judgment Groups," American Sociological Association, 1975.

S. Hesselbart, "Women Doctors Win and Male Nurses Lose: A Study of Sex Role and  Occupational Stereotypes," Southern Sociological Society, 1976.

S.  Hesselbart,  "Normative  Expectations  About  'Male'  and 'Female' Occupations  and Their Expectations for the Division  of Labor in the Household," Southeastern Council on Family Relations, 1976.

S. Hesselbart, "Question Format and Response: A Study of Sex Role Stereotypes," Southern Sociological Society, 1976.

S. Hesselbart, "Does Charity Begin at Home? Attitudes Toward Women, Household Tasks  and  Household Decision-Making," American Sociological Association, 1976.

S. Hesselbart, session organizer on "The Status of Women and Minorities in  Public  Opinion  Research," for the American Association for Public Opinion Research, 1976.

S. Hesselbart, session organizer on "The Social Implications of 'Woman as Physical Weakling',"  for  the  Society  for the Study  of  Social  Problems and Sociologists for Women in  Society, 1976.

S. Hesselbart, session organizer on "Social Psychology" for the Southern Sociological Society, 1977.

S. Hesselbart, "Men and Women on the Tube: Sex and Sex Stereotypes on Television," Association for Consumer Research,    1977.

S. Hesselbart, "Feminism, Changes in Sociology and Changes in  Social Life," Conference on Current Perspectives in Feminism, Tallahassee, Florida, 1977.

S. Hesselbart, "Dimensions of Sex-Typed Occupational Norms," American Sociological Association, 1977.

S. Hesselbart, session organizer  on  "Women, Men  and  Work:  Where  are We  Headed  in  the  1980s?" for  the American Sociological Association, 1977.
 

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S. Hesselbart,  session organizer on  "Research  on Attitudes  and Attitude Change," Southern Sociological Society, 1978.

S. Hesselbart, session organizer on "Question Format and  Measures  of  Prejudice," American Sociological Association, 1978.

S. Hesselbart, discussant on  "Contemporary Family Problems," Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1978.

S. Hesselbart, "Some Underemphasized Issues about  Men, Women  and Work," American Sociological Association, 1978.

S. Hesselbart, discussant on "Contemporary Advances in Social Psychology," for the Southern Sociological Society, 1979.

S. Hesselbart, session organizer on "Gender, Work and Family"  for the American Sociological Association, 1979.

S. Hesselbart, session organizer on "Occupational Sex-Segregation: Causes and  Consequences,"  for  the  American Sociological Association, 1979.

S. Hesselbart,  "Trends  in  Support of the ERA in a Southern  City," Southern Association for Public Opinion Research, 1979.

D. Bolling and S. Hesselbart, "Item Coding: A Neglected Methodological Issue in Questionnaire  Measures  of  Marital Decision-Making," Southern Sociological Society, 1979.

S. Hesselbart  and  S. Roland,  "Telling a Book by Its Cover: Sex  and  Sexism on Best-Seller Paperback Book Covers,  1960-1977," Southern Sociological Society, 1980.

S. Hesselbart, plenary session organizer on "Women  and  Men:  Crisis in Legitimation" for the Southern Sociological Society,  1980.
 
 

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S. Losh-Hesselbart, discussant on "Sexual Harassment."Southern Sociological  Society, 1984.

S. Losh-Hesselbart, "Changes in  Gender-Related  Demographics and Changes in Sex-Role Ideologies During the 1970s  and  the 1980s," Department of Societal Analysis, General  Motors  Research Laboratories, 1986.

S. Losh-Hesselbart,  "Development of Gender Roles," National Conference on Family Relations, 1986.

S. Losh-Hesselbart, moderator and discussant, "Education, Socialization and Gender," American Sociological Association,   August, 1987.

S. Losh-Hesselbart, "Religion in the Public Schools: A Study of Attitudes Among Florida Residents" for The National Education Association Conference on "The Future of Academic Freedom: Context and Challenge", January,  1988.

D.E. Crews and S. Losh, "Application of Structural Modeling to Blood Pressure: A Samoan Example" at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1988.

S. Losh-Hesselbart,  "Cohort and Gender Attitude Change: Further Shifts in Public Opinion"  at  the American Sociological Association, 1988.

S. Losh, "Religious Values and Educational Protest:  The Case of Florida Residents.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, 1989.

S. Losh, E. Dennis, and P. Blood,  "Creationism and Curricula: Religion, Public Education, and Science". Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, 1989.
 

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S. Losh, "Promoting Togetherness: Group Cohesiveness in Religious Congregations.” Paper  presented at the Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Social Science Association, 1992.

R. Cavendish and S. Losh, "Gender and the Critical Evaluation of Gender-Related 'Scientific  Information'.” At the Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, 1993.

Organizer, Presider and Discussant, "Movement on the Theory Front: Views from Social Psychology." At the Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, 1994.

S. Losh, "Components of Attitudes Toward  Religion  in  Public Education." At  the  Annual  Meetings  of  the Southern Sociological Society, 1994.

S. Losh, "Promotion of Inter-Group Tolerance and Cooperation." The Holocaust Study Summer Institute, Florida State University, 1994. (Also 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004. 2005.)

S. Losh, C. Fobes and M. Gould, "Ballots, Marches and Good Works: Religious Congregations,  Community Participation and Political Activism." At the Association  for the Sociology of Religion, 1994.

S. Losh and R. Cavendish, "An Experimental and Covariate Analysis Perspective: Background Characteristics, Heuristics, Beliefs about Science and Science Reasoning."At the Annual Meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995.

Organizer and Presider: "Dimensions of Public Opinion Beliefs and Reasoning about Science."  At the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995.

S.  Losh, C. Fobes and M. Van Dyke, "Paths to Righteousness, Paths to Activism: How Cohesiveness and Bureaucracy in Religious Congregations Influence Community  Participation." Annual Meetings of the Association for the  Sociology of Religion, 1995.

Organizer and Presider: "The General Public's Views About Science and Reasoning.” The Annual Meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,  1996.

S. Losh,  "Imposing Structure on a Random Event:  How  Players Select Their Numbers for the Florida Lottery." At  the Annual Meetings  of  the Association for the Advancement of  Science, 1996.  Summarized in New Scientist, 149,  No. 2018, February 24, 1996: 14.
 

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S. Losh, "Support Groups and Friendliness: Two Routes to Cohesiveness in a Study of Religious Congregations." Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, 1998.

S. Losh, “Agonies and Ecstasies: Conducting Omnibus Surveys in an Urban Community.” Invited lecture, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 1998.

S.C. Losh, A. Wasserman, and M. Wasserman, “‘The Cornerstone of the American Legal System:’ Civic Engagement, Juror Attitudes Toward Jury Duty, and Jury Behavior.” Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, 1999.

S.C. Losh, A.W. Wasserman and M.A. Wasserman, “‘Reluctant Jurors:’ How Responses to a Summons Relate to Attitudes Toward Jury Duty.”Annual Meetings of the Southwest Social Science Association (Sociology), Galveston, Texas, March 2000.

S.C. Losh, “On the Application of Social Cognition and Social Location to Creating Causal Structures.” Paper (refereed) presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, August 2000.

S.C. Losh, “Narrowing the Digital Divide? Gender, Access to Computers, and Computer Use, 1983-1999." Refereed paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropology Association, San Francisco, California, November 2000.

 S. C. Losh (with N. Betten, J. Tarnai, B. Tucker, and B. Vargas) “When Faculty Evaluate their Administrators in Higher Education,” Refereed symposium presented at the Annual Meetings of the  Association for the Advancement of Educational Research, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, November 2000.

 S.C. Losh, “How Education and Gender Influence U.S. Computer Usage: Data from the NSF Public Understanding of Science Surveys.” Invited paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Association for Institutional Research/Florida State University Winter Colloquium, Tallahassee, FL, January 26, 2001.

S.C. Losh, “Attracting Students to Women and Gender Studies” part of a refereed panel presented at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society and Sociologists for Women in Society-South, Atlanta, April, 2001.

S.C. Losh, invited panelist on “Reflections of the Founding Mothers: In Celebration of the Twenty-Fifth Year of Sociologists for Women in Society-South ” at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society and Sociologists for Women in Society-South, Atlanta, April, 2001.

S.C. Losh, organizer and presider for refereed symposium: “Science, Pseudo-Science, and Public Opinion” at the annual meetings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Montreal, Canada, May 2001.

S. C. Losh, “How Gender and Education Influence Science and Pseudo-Science Beliefs: 1979-1999.” refereed paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Montreal, May 2001.

R. Boatright and S.C. Losh, “Generational Differences in Attitudes Towards Jury Service” refereed poster session for the Annual Meetings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Montreal, Canada, May 2001.

S.C. Losh, organizer and presider “Collective Bargaining in Higher Education.” Refereed symposium presented at the Annual Meetings of the  Association for the Advancement of Educational Research, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, November 2001.

S.C. Losh, “The Evolution of Contractual Equity for University Faculty.” Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, November 2001.

S.C. Losh, “Education, Gender, and the Digital Chasm.” Paper presented at the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, December 2001.
 
 

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S.C. Losh, “How Gender, Level, and Type of Education Influence Science Beliefs and Pseudoscience Support: Evidence from the AIR/NSF Surveys of Public Understanding of Science and Technology, 1979-1999.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association for Institutional Research, Toronto, June, 2002.

S.C. Losh, C.M. Tavani, R. Njoroge, R. Wilke, and M. McAuley, "How Educational Level and Educational Type Influence Basic Science Literacy and Science Attitudinal Support In the American General Population." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Florida Educational Research Association, Gainesville, Florida, November 2002.

S.C. Losh, “The Role of Education in Explaining the Gender Digital Chasm in Computer and Internet Access and Use: 1983-2000.” Invited Keynote Speaker for the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, December 2002.

S.C. Losh, C.M. Tavani, R. Njoroge, R. Wilke, and M. McAuley, “How Science Knowledge and Attitudes relate to Pseudoscience Acceptance, Political Engagement, and Funding Venue Support.” Paper at the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Nashville, May 2003

C.M. Tavani and S.C. Losh, “How Academic Performance, Motivation, and Self-Confidence Relate to Academic Expectations among Pre-College Students.” Paper at the American Psychological Association, Toronto, August 2003.

S.C. Losh. 2003. "How I Got From There to Here: Social Cognition and Science, and the NSF Surveys of Public Understanding of Science and Technology." Presentation at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, September 22, 2003.

S.C. Losh. 2003. "Using the University of California-Berkeley's Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) Statistical System with Archival Data." Presentation at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, September 24, 2003.

S.C. Losh, C. M. Tavani, R. Njoroge, R. Wilke and T. Yigit, "How Educational Level and Educational Type Influence Basic Science Knowledge and Reasoning among American Adults: 1988-2003." Paper presented at the Florida Association of Educational Research, Orlando, November, 2003.
 

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S.C. Losh, “Dimensions of Adult Civic Science Literacy and Dimensions of Post-Secondary Education.” Presentation at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, January 28, 2004.

S.C. Losh, “The NSF Surveys of Public Understanding of Science and Technology Selected Archive: 1979-2001.” Presentation at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, January 28, 2004.

S.C. Losh, Organizer, "Dimensions of American Science Literacy: Knowledge, Process, Controversy and Pseudoscience." Symposium for the American Educational Research Association Annual Meetings. San Diego California April 2004.

S.C. Losh, C.M. Tavani, R. Njoroge, R. Wilke, and T. Yigit. “How Dimensions of High School and College Science Experiences Affect Adult Pseudoscience Support.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meetings, San Diego California April 2004.

R.N. Njoroge and S.C. Losh, "Communicating Science to the American General Public: A Critical Look at Sources of Scientific Knowledge." Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meetings, San Diego California April 2004.

S.C. Losh, "It's in the Details: Dimensions of Adult Civic Science Literacy 1990-2001."  Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meetings, Boston, June 2004.

S.C. Losh, Panel Organizer, "Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills: Benefits, Cautions and Pitfalls for Training Novices to use Large Archival Databases." Panel to be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, the Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Toronto, Canada, August 2004.

S.C. Losh, R. Njoroge, R. Wilke, T. Yigit, F. Zhou, Y. Gao, B. Vaughn and C. Reisner, “A Key to Fostering Interests in Science? Portraits of Scientists in the American General Public: 1983 and 2001.” Refereed paper presented at the Florida Association of Educational Research, Tampa, November, 2004.

S.C. Losh, R. Wilke and M. Pop, “Some Methodological Issues with ‘Draw a Scientist’ Tests among Young Children.” Refereed paper presented at the  American Educational Research Association meetings, San Francisco, April, 2006.

S.C. Losh, R. Wilke, F. Zhou, Y. Guo, B. Vaughn and C. Grove, “Gilded Images, Broken Images: Adult American Stereotypes about Scientists. Refereed paper presented at the American Educational Research Association meetings, San Francisco, April, 2006.

R. Wilke and S.C. Losh, “Choice of Instructional Strategies among Preservice Teachers.” Refereed paper presented at the American Educational Research Association meetings, San Francisco, April, 2006.

R. Wilke and S.C. Losh, “ Preservice Teachers’ Attitudes toward In-Service Collaboration: Will They Participate?”  Refereed paper presented at the American Educational Research Association meetings, San Francisco, April, 2006.

S.C. Losh, R. Wilke and M. Pop, “Gender, Ethnicity, Grade, and Young Children’s Drawings of Different Professionals. Refereed paper presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching meetings, San Francisco, April, 2006..

S.C. Losh, R. Wilke, F. Zhou, Y. Guo, B. Vaughn and C. Grove, “American Adult Stereotypes about Scientists over Time.” Refereed paper presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching meetings, San Francisco, April, 2006.

S.C. Losh “Generational and Educational Effects on Basic U.S. Adult Civic Science Literacy” Refereed paper presented at the Ninth International Conference on Public Communication of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea, May 2006. (Now published in the PCST-9 Proceedings, see above).

S.C. Losh "American Stereotypes about Scientists: Gender and Time Effects." Refereed paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal, August 2006.
 
 

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Symposium co-organizer: “Science Literacy and Pseudoscience,” The American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 2007.

S.C. Losh "Age and Generational Effects on Pseudoscience Beliefs.” Refereed paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, February 2007.

S.C. Losh: “Creating a Major National Longitudinal Cross-sectional Database: The National Science Foundation Surveys of Public Understanding of Science and Technology,” Refereed paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April 2007.

H. Gao, S.C. Losh, E. Shen, J.E. Turner, R. Yaun: “The Effect of Collaborative Concept Mapping on Learning, Problem Solving, and Learning Attitude,” Refereed paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April 2007.

S.C. Losh, "Age, Generational, and Educational Effects on American Adult Public Understanding of Science." International Workshop on Science Indicators, The Royal Society of London (National Academy of Science for the United Kingdom), November 2007 (invited).

S.C. Losh:  “Generation, Age, Gender and Education,  and  American Public Understanding  of Selected Health Issues: 1988-2006,” presented at the Pacific Association for Public Opinion Research, San Francisco, December 2007 (refereed).

S.C. Losh: “Adult Stereotypes about Scientists 1983 and 2001: Gender, Time and Media Effects” paper presented at the American Sociological Association, Boston, August 2008 (refereed).

S.C. Losh: "Generation versus Aging, and Education, Occupation, Gender and Ethnicity Effects in U.S. Digital Divides" presented at the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, October, 2009 (refereed).

S.C. Losh & B. Nzekwe, "Creatures in the Classroom: Preservice Teacher Beliefs about Fantastic Beasts, Magic, Extraterrestrials, Evolution and Creationism.” (refereed) Presented at the annual meetings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, May 2010.

S.C. Losh and B. Nzekwe, “The Foundations: How Education Major Influences Basic Science Knowledge and Pseudoscience Beliefs. Presented at the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, September 2011.

S.C. Losh, "Big Data, National Treasures or There's Really Gold in Them Thar Hills." Presented at the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 2013.

B. Nzekwe and S.C. Losh, “Scientist Identity Salience and Career Attitudes: Comparing Honors Science Majors with Research Internship Participants.”  Presented at the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 2013.

B. Nzekwe and S.C. Losh, “How Gender, Ethnicity and Experience Influence Scientist Identity and Career Attitudes among Research Program Students.”  Presented at the National Association for Research on Science Teaching, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2013.

S.C. Losh. Editors Panel (for Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society) Presented at the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, September 2013.

S.C. Losh and B. Nzekwe, "Facets of Identity Crystalization as a Research Scientist among Talented Undergraduates." Presented at Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, September 2013.

B. Nzekwe and S.C. Losh, “Role-Identity Salience and Research Career Attitudes Among Undergraduate Science and Nonscience Majors.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, April 2014.

S.C. Losh, “Dickens Revisited, or Data under Siege?” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, April 2014.

S.C. Losh and B. Nzekwe, “Situated Occupational Role-Identity and Undergraduate Research Engagement.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2014.

S.C. Losh and B. Nzekwe, “Causes and Consequences of Undergraduate Research Participation,” To be presented at The Learning Conference, Madrid, July 2015.

Currently submitted: S.C. Losh and B. Nzekwe, “What Happened? Student Perceived Outcomes of Undergraduate Research Participation.” for the 2015 annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April.

Currently submitted: S.C. Losh, Symposium Organizer: “Dimensions of Undergraduate Research Activity: Experience, Engagement, and Equality,” for the 2015 annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April.
 

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American Educational Research Association
    Reviewer: proposals and manuscripts for the Annual Meetings (Division C; SIG on Cognition and Learning)
    Elected 2011: Program Chair (2011-2013) and Chair (2013-2015), Special Interest Group on Advanced Studies of National Databases.

Association for the Advancement of Educational Research (Coordinator, Social Psychology Division)
American Association for Public Opinion Research
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Statistical Association
     Campaign for Statistical Literacy, 1996
Association for Institutional Research
American Sociological Association
     Nomination Committee: Social Psychology Section, 1980
     Committee on Certification for  Advanced Quantitative Methods, 1986-1987
Florida Association for Education Research
    Reviewer: proposals and manuscripts for the Annual Meetings
Southern Sociological Society
     Appointed, Committee on the Status of Women, 1978
     Elected, Executive Committee, 1979-82
Southwestern Social Science Association
Sociologists for Women in Society
     Elected, Secretary, Southern Region, 1975
     Elected, Newsletter Editor, Southern Region, 1976-78
 

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Graduate courses on data collection and methodology (surveys; experiments; focus groups; content analysis; field and participant observation; ethnographies; on-line databases; open coding); data analysis (introductory; general linear model including regression and analysis of variance methods; causal  modeling  with categorical and numerical data); social psychology (theories; advanced; group dynamics; public opinion and attitudes; life cycle processes).

Undergraduate courses on research methods; statistics; public  opinion; sex  roles and  gender; social psychology of groups.

NOTE: Generally the FSU mailer server has been discontinued. Pages are being restored on the myweb.fsu.edu system. Please be patient during this process.

For the most recent online editions of several of my courses, click here:

SYP5105 Theories of Social Psychology

The Theories of Social Psychology course is part of an approved mental health program by the American Psychological Association.
Theories of Social Psychology will be available as a totally online course Fall semester 2014.

EDP5285 Group Processes

EDF 5400 Introductory Descriptive and Inferential Statistics (restoration in process, Guides 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8 posted)

EDF5481 Methods of Educational Research
Currently under revision for Fall 2014.

EDF 6937 The Multivariate Analysis of Categorical Data

DEP 5068 Lifespan Development
 

WEB pages for Methods, EDF 5481 are archived as a resource to date in the following: Acadia University: Personality Pedagogy The University of British Columbia Research Methods Resources on the WWW (School of Library Science) Indiana University's Library Science Methods Recommendations The SySurvey White Papers, London, England Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research, supported by The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication The New School for Social Research DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR EVALUATORS The Learning Domain: PXGS 6102 Introduction to Research in Education (University of Malaya) "Sociopranos": Society Redefined InfoMine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections DBall organization (on focus groups) Department of Political Science,  California State Polytechnic University Pomona H.Ü. Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi Bölümü Loughborough University in the UK--Dr. Emma Rich The "Powermutt Project" Politically-Oriented Web-Enhanced Research Methods for Undergraduates — Topics and Tools Resources for introductory research methods courses in political science and related disciplines Recursos Metodologicos para la Investigacion Educativa: Muestreo (Methodological Resources for Educational Research), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Political Science Research Methods: University of Toronto University of Georgia School of Library Science

 

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Consultant to the National Science Foundation-Science Resources Statistics 2002 -
Workshop panel 2004, for the 2006 General Social Survey module on Public Understanding of Science
Instrumentation panel 2010 for the 2012 General Social Survey module on Public Understanding of Science

Ivanhoe Broadcast Television
 
 

Editor in chief, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2013-

Sociology Editor, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1977-84.

     Associate Editor, Social Forces, 1978-82.
     Editorial Board, Social Science Quarterly, 1978-83.

Editorial consultant/referee  for:

Journals

• American Journal of Sociology
• Evolution: Education and Outreach
• Human Relations
• IT & Society
• Journal of Marriage and the Family
• Journal of Science Education and Technology
• Psychology of Women Quarterly
• Public Opinion Quarterly
• Public Understanding of Science
• Sex Roles: A Journal of Research
• Social Psychology Quarterly
• Social Science Computer Review
• Sociology and Social Research
• Sociological Focus
• Sociology of Work and Occupations
• Social Problems

• Allyn and Bacon
• Addison-Wesley
• Little, Brown and Company
• Macmillan Publishing Company
• Peacock Publishers
• Pearson Publishers
• Praeger Publishers
• Prentice-Hall
• Random House
• Roxbury Press
• Sage Publications
• St. Martins Press
• Thomson Publishing
• University of Nebraska Press
• Wadsworth

DEPARTMENT/UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY:

Committee on Religious Affairs, 1997-
Computing and Information Resources Committee, 1997-2000
University Human Subjects Committee, Institutional Review Board, 1998 -1999
COFRS Review Committee, 1996
University Financial Aid and Scholarship Committee, 1988-1990
Undergraduate Program Committee, 1976-1980
Elected, Faculty Senate Professional Relations Committee, 1995-1998
Elected, Faculty Senate Grievance Committee, 1992-1996
Elected, Faculty Senate, Florida State University, 1975-1977
Elected, Faculty Senate, Florida State University, 2002-2008
Elected, Faculty Senate Grievance Committee, 2011-2015
Elected. Faculty Senate, Florida State University, 2013-

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION:

Elected, Faculty Council, 2002-2005; 2010 - 2012
Head, Budget and Resources Committee, 2002-2005

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LEARNING SYSTEMS:

Program Leader, Educational Psychology, 2006-2009

Learning and Cognition Program Committee, 2000-

Program Coordinator, 2001-2009
Recruiting Committee, 2001-

SOCIOLOGY:

Elected, Department Policy Committee (executive committee) 1977-80; 1983-84
Area Committee, Social Psychology (Chair, 1983-85; 1992-98)
Area Committee, Statistics/Methods (Chair, 1976-81; 1987-88) 1973-95
Undergraduate Program Committee, 1975-1978 (Chair, 1976-1978); 1991-92
Graduate Policy Committee, 1996-97
 
 
 

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