Edmund A. Marek, PhD

Presidential Professor

Director of the Science Education Center

Background Information:

• BS in Education (1970), MEd in Science Education (1972), PhD in Science Education (1977), University of Oklahoma
  
  
• Dr. Marek is in his 25th year as faculty member at the University of Oklahoma where he holds the rank of Full Professor and is Director of the Science Education Center.
   
• He began his teaching career as a secondary school science teacher and, during his first eight years, taught primarily high school biology.
  
  
• Following that, he was an Assistant Professor of Biology at Southwest Texas State University (SWT) in San Marcos, Texas for four years and also served as Assistant Director of the Edwards Aquifer Research and Data Center at SWT for three years.
   
• Dr. Marek  is the author of over eighty publications including  two college textbooks on elementary school science teaching and has published two teacher's guides for middle school environmental science and two college laboratory manuals for general science.
   
• During his tenure at the University of Oklahoma, he has been Director and Co-Director of numerous National Science Foundation-supported projects on science curricula development and science inservice education totaling over $2.7M.
   
• Dr. Marek has directed many summer programs in energy education and science education funded by grants from the Department of Energy and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, respectively.
   
• His primary teaching responsibilities are with graduate and undergraduate courses in science education offered to preservice and inservice teachers.
   
• Dr. Marek is active in the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Association for the Education of Teachers of Science, National Science Teachers Association, and the Oklahoma Science Teachers Association.
   
• Dr. Marek has received several awards for teaching and research, and in 1993 was awarded OU's Henry Rinsland Award for Excellence in Educational Research and in 2005 the College of Education's research/scholarship award.
   
• Dr. Marek was inducted into the College of Education's first class of their Hall of Fame as part of the diamond anniversary induction of "75 Who Made a Difference".
   
• In 2005 Dr. Marek received one the University's highest awards, a Presidential Professorship, the Linda Clarke Anderson Presidential Professorship.
   
• Dr. Marek participated in the Oxford Round Table, Science and Faith: The Great Matter, Oxford, England, July 23-28, 2006.
   

Courses Offered:

• Undergraduate
  • EDSC 4093 - Inquiry Based Science Teaching
  • EDSC 4193 - Teaching Science in the Elementary Schools
  • EDSC 4513 - Teaching Science in the Secondary Schools
  • EDSC 4960 - Project Wet, Wild, Learning Tree
  • EDUC 4060 - Supervision of Student Teachers
• Graduate
  • EDSC 5513 - Teaching Science in the Secondary Schools
  • EDSC 5514 - Research and Development of Science Curricula
  • EDSC 5523 - The Science of Learning Theories
  • EDSC 5960 - Project Wet, Wild, Learning Tree
  • EDSC 5940 - Proposal Development
  • EDSC 6532 - Paradigms for Scientific Investigations

Career Awards and Noteworthy Grants       Selected Publications

email: eamarek@ou.edu