Publications

Journals

  1. Boz, T., Lee, M., Macias, M., Summers, R., Zaman, M., Inouye, M., Robinson, J., & Hammack, R. (Under Review). Large-scale online science and engineering professional learning for rural elementary teachers. Research in Science Education
  2. Hammack, R., Robinson, J., Gist, J., Lee, M., & Boz, T. (Under Review). Is this a science lesson? Is this an engineering lesson?: Understanding how elementary teachers characterize science and engineering and its connection to practice. Journal of Science Teacher Education
  3. Park, H., Boz, T., Sawyer, A., & Willingham, C. (Revised and Resubmitted). Exploring robot programming in a geometry content course: Learning opportunities for prospective elementary teachers. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education.
  4. Boz, T., Hammack, R., Scherer, S., Lux, N., & Gannon, P. (In Print). Sustaining engineering education for rural contexts: Implications from a multi-year study. Theory and Practice in Rural Education.
  5. Boz, T., Smith, N., Hammack, R., Davis, H., & Cornish, J. (2025). Middle school students' experiences with place-based STEM outreach. Research in Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-025-10245-1 DOI
  6. Davis, H., Davey, B., Cornish, J., Smith, N., Boz, T., & Hammack, R. (2025). Disease ecology summer camp classes: Lessons learned working with undergraduates to engage underserved youth. Journal of STEM Outreach, 8(1), 1-10.
  7. Boz, T., Hammack, R., Lux, N., & Gannon, P. (2024). Technology-rich engineering experiences in Indigenous and rural schools. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology (IJEMST), 12(4), 1090-1108. https://doi.org/10.46328/ijemst.4129 DOI
  8. Inouye, M., Macias, M., Boz, T., Lee, M. J., Hammack, R., & Iveland, A. (2024). Defining rural: Rural teachers’ perspectives and experiences. Education Sciences, 14(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14060645 DOI
  9. Hammack, R., Pavlovic, C., Yeter, I., & Boz, T. (2024). Exploring pre-service elementary teachers’ science and engineering teaching efficacy beliefs and outcome expectancy. International Journal of STEM Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-024-00464-9 DOI
  10. Boz, T., & Allexsaht-Snider, M. (2023). Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary schools: An activity theory perspective. Journal of Research on Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2023.2221870 DOI
  11. Boz, T. (2023). Teacher professional development for STEM integration in elementary/primary schools: A systematic review. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 15(5), 371–382.
  12. Boz, T., Hammack, R., Lux, N., & Gannon, P. (2023). Empowering elementary students with community-based engineering: A teacher's experience in a rural school district. Education Sciences, 13(5), 434. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13050434 DOI
  13. Park, H., Boz, T., Sawyer, A., & Willingham, C. (2023). Learning polygons through robotics and argumentation. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching Pre-K-12, 116(5), 392–398. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2021.0313 DOI
  14. Kim, C., Gleasman, C., Boz, T., Park, H., & Foutz, T. (2022) Learning to teach coding through argumentation. Computers & Education Open. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2022.100107 DOI
  15. Boz, T., & Allexsaht-Snider, M. (2021). How do elementary school teachers learn coding and robotics? A case study of mediations and conflicts. Education and Information Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-021-10736-4 DOI
  16. Boz, T. (2020). İlkokul öğrencileri için robotik ve kodlama eğitimi [Robotics and Coding for Primary School Students]. Eğitim Bilimleri ve Teknolojileri Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi, 2, 14-16.
  17. Boz, T., & Yıldırım, A. (2014). 4+4+4 eğitim sisteminde birinci sınıf öğretmenlerin karşılaştığı zorluklar [Difficulties teachers experience in 4+4+4 education system at first grade level]. Baskent University Journal of Education, 1(2), 54-65. https://buje.baskent.edu.tr/index.php/buje/article/view/37 DOI

Conference Proceedings

  1. Summers, R., Hammack, R., Robinson, J., Inouye, M., Lee, M., Boz, T., Macias, M., & Iveland, A. (2025, accepted). Examining changes in elementary teachers’ engineering self-efficacy across a year-long professional learning program. Annual Meeting of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Montreal, CA.
  2. Hammack, R., Robinson, J., Lee, M., Gist, J. R., & Boz, T. (2025, accepted). One teacher’s approach to supporting multilingual learners through community-connected culturally relevant engineering design (fundamental, diversity). Annual Meeting of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Montreal, CA.
  3. Boz, T., Hartikainen, V., Fagerlund, J., Ahlström, E., Nousiainen, T., & Näykki, P. (2024). Teaching programming to pre-service teachers through pair programming. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), Buffalo, NY.
  4. Hammack, R., Boz, T., Lux, N., & Gannon, P. (2024). Impact of community-based engineering lessons on rural and Indigenous elementary students. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR.
  5. Hammack, R., Robinson, J., Boz, T., Lee, M. Galisky, J., Macias, M., Inouye, M., Iveland, A., Ringstaff, C., & Summers, R. (2024). Supporting elementary engineering instruction through online professional learning and modest supports. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR.
  6. Boz, T., Smith, N., Hammack, R., Davis, H., & Cornish, J. (2024). Engaging middle school students with disease ecology in place-based STEM outreach. Proceedings of IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, Princeton, NJ.
  7. Hammack, R.J.; Lux, N.; Gannon, P.; Hacker, D.; LaMeres, B.J.; Wiehe, B.; & Boz, T. (2023). Connecting classroom curriculum to local contexts to enhance engineering awareness in elementary youth. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD.
  8. Park, H., Boz, T., Kim, C., & Foutz, T. (2022). Design features of elementary teachers’ mathematics lesson plans integrated with argumentation and robotics. 44th North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA). Nashville, TN.
  9. Boz, T., & Allexsaht-Snider, M. (2022). Supporting elementary school teachers in their learning of programming and robotics: A case study. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), Virtual.
  10. Foutz, T., Kim, C. M., Boz, T., & Gleasman, C. (2019). Work in progress: Teaching coding to elementary students - the use of collective argumentation. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL.