Background
Daempfle was born in Ridgewood, Queens, New York, May 5.
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Peter Daempfle
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He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Hartwick College, an Master of Surgery in Biology from State University of New York Albany, an Master of Surgery in Education from The College of Saint Rose, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Biology Education from State University of New York Albany.
Career
He is currently an Associate Professor of Biology at State University of New York Delhi. Early life and education
1970, a child of German refugees. He was class valedictorian at Forest Hills High School in 1988.
Doctor Daempfle was the first science education researcher to use qualitative and quantitative approaches to study faculty expectations in the academic transition between secondary and post-secondary biology programs.
His journal articles are cited extensively and used in contemporary studies throughout the science education literature. From 2001-2009 he was a science advisor to the George West. Bush Administration"s Number Child Left Behind Acting (NCLB).
He is known in the science education literature for publications focusing on the retention of students in science and on the high school-college science "divide." Daempfle has authored three books and one lab manual, as well as several journal articles He is an expert reviewer in biology for standardized testing in science in various states through Measured Progress, Incorporated.
A new textbook is scheduled to be published by Kendall/Hunt Publishers in 2015, “Essential Biology: An Applied Approach” which is geared for teaching Introductory College Biology.
Skepticism
Daempfle is the author of Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience, and Just Plain Bunk: How to Tell the Difference (2013).
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