Adv Physiol Educ 38: 1–2, 2014; doi:10.1152/advan.00009.2014.
Editorial
Advances: the next stage of the journey Douglas Curran-Everett Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado; and Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado Submitted 17 January 2014; accepted in final form 23 January 2014
upon my term as the next custodian of Advances in Physiology Education, I cannot help but think of the Editors who preceded me:
AS I EMBARK
Harold Modell 1989 –1992 Penny Hansen 1992–2001 Dee Silverthorn 2001–2007 Rob Carroll 2008 –2013
within the classroom and to a community of educators who practice them. As I have done with the Associate Editors and with the members of the Editorial Board, I would like to ask you, our reader, one question: If you could change one thing about Advances, what would that one thing be?
What a distinguished roster of science educators! I feel very much like one of the feline participants in Wallace Fenn’s Fable of the Cats (21), a story Fenn told when he delivered his Past President’s address to the American Physiological Society in September 1948 (19) and a story Leon Farhi recounted when he introduced Hermann Rahn at a symposium in Rahn’s honor in October 1985. In following Harold, Penny, Dee, and Rob, I feel very much like one of the cats bringing up the rear. Although the bulk of my papers in Advances have been related to statistics (6 –17), my association with the journal began when I published a science activity for elementary school children, an activity centered on the wonder of lungs (1, 3). Since then I have published on using classic papers written by Fenn, Rahn, and Otis (4) and Guyton (5), and I have published education-related papers and activities outside Advances (2, 18, 20). Years ago, when I interviewed for my first faculty position, I said I knew a lot about a few things and a little about a lot of things.1 As I have gotten older, I have realized that I know so little about so many things. What often saves me is that I know people who know those things. One of those people who knows about education is my wife, Char Sorensen. Char taught elementary school–mostly 6th grade–for over 30 years. In addition to all the children Char helped, she worked on curriculum development and assessment for the state of Colorado, she mentored new and experienced teachers, and she was a finalist for 2004 Colorado Teacher of the Year. Other people who know about education are the Associate Editors and members of the Editorial Board who have agreed to help shepherd me along the way. I am delighted they have done so. We are planning an Editorial series that will highlight pedagogies such as active and student-centered learning as well as other topics like instructional design, assessment, and curriculum development. Last, we will link these educational concepts to their implementation
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: D. Curran-Everett, Div. of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, M222, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson St., Denver, CO 80206 (e-mail: [email protected]). 1 For me this was both the fun and the curse of being a basic cardiorespiratory physiologist.
Please e-mail your comments directly to me at EverettD@ NJHealth.org. I look forward to hearing your ideas. This is, after all, truly your journal. I am delighted to continue this journey with you. DISCLOSURES No conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, are declared by the author(s). AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
D.C.-E. drafted and approved final version of this work. REFERENCES 1. Curran-Everett D. Hearts, lungs, and children: a physiologist returns to kindergarten. Adv Physiol Educ 14: 32–36, 1995. 2. Curran-Everett D. The Möbius band: an unusual vehicle for science exploration. Sci Children 34: 22–25, 1997. 3. Curran-Everett D. A physiologist returns with letters by children. Adv Physiol Educ 20: 247–248, 1998. 4. Curran-Everett D. A classic learning opportunity from Fenn, Rahn, and Otis (1946): the alveolar gas equation. Adv Physiol Educ 30: 58 – 62, 2006. 5. Curran-Everett D. A classic learning opportunity from Arthur Guyton and colleagues (1955): circuit analysis of venous return. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 129 –135, 2007. 6. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: standard deviations and standard errors. Adv Physiol Educ 32: 203–208, 2008. 7. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: confidence intervals. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 87–90, 2009. 8. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: hypothesis tests and P values. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 81– 86, 2009. 9. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: the bootstrap. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 286 –292, 2009. 10. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: correlation. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 186 –191, 2010. 11. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: power. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 41– 43, 2010. 12. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: regression. Adv Physiol Educ 35: 347–352, 2011. 13. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: permutation methods. Adv Physiol Educ 36: 181–187, 2012. 14. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: the analysis of ratios and normalized data. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 213–219, 2013. 15. Curran-Everett D, Benos DJ. Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American Physiological Society. Adv Physiol Educ 28: 85– 87, 2004. 16. Curran-Everett D, Benos DJ. Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American Physiological Society: the sequel. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 295–298, 2007. 17. Curran-Everett D, Benos DJ. Last Word on Perspectives “Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American
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ADVANCES: THE NEXT STAGE OF THE JOURNEY
Physiological Society: the sequel”. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 306 –307, 2007. 18. Curran-Everett D, Collins S, Hubert J, Pidick T. Science education partnership between the University of Colorado and a Denver high school. Acad Med 74: 322–325, 1999.
19. Fenn WO. Physiology on horseback. Am J Physiol 159: 551–555, 1949. 20. Lundgren L, Curran-Everett D. Glencoe Health: Health Labs. New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1998. 21. Otis A. Wallace Fenn and the Journal of Applied Physiology. J Appl Physiol 85: 43– 44, 1998.
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Editorial
Advances: the next stage of the journey Douglas Curran-Everett Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado; and Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado Submitted 17 January 2014; accepted in final form 23 January 2014
upon my term as the next custodian of Advances in Physiology Education, I cannot help but think of the Editors who preceded me:
AS I EMBARK
Harold Modell 1989 –1992 Penny Hansen 1992–2001 Dee Silverthorn 2001–2007 Rob Carroll 2008 –2013
within the classroom and to a community of educators who practice them. As I have done with the Associate Editors and with the members of the Editorial Board, I would like to ask you, our reader, one question: If you could change one thing about Advances, what would that one thing be?
What a distinguished roster of science educators! I feel very much like one of the feline participants in Wallace Fenn’s Fable of the Cats (21), a story Fenn told when he delivered his Past President’s address to the American Physiological Society in September 1948 (19) and a story Leon Farhi recounted when he introduced Hermann Rahn at a symposium in Rahn’s honor in October 1985. In following Harold, Penny, Dee, and Rob, I feel very much like one of the cats bringing up the rear. Although the bulk of my papers in Advances have been related to statistics (6 –17), my association with the journal began when I published a science activity for elementary school children, an activity centered on the wonder of lungs (1, 3). Since then I have published on using classic papers written by Fenn, Rahn, and Otis (4) and Guyton (5), and I have published education-related papers and activities outside Advances (2, 18, 20). Years ago, when I interviewed for my first faculty position, I said I knew a lot about a few things and a little about a lot of things.1 As I have gotten older, I have realized that I know so little about so many things. What often saves me is that I know people who know those things. One of those people who knows about education is my wife, Char Sorensen. Char taught elementary school–mostly 6th grade–for over 30 years. In addition to all the children Char helped, she worked on curriculum development and assessment for the state of Colorado, she mentored new and experienced teachers, and she was a finalist for 2004 Colorado Teacher of the Year. Other people who know about education are the Associate Editors and members of the Editorial Board who have agreed to help shepherd me along the way. I am delighted they have done so. We are planning an Editorial series that will highlight pedagogies such as active and student-centered learning as well as other topics like instructional design, assessment, and curriculum development. Last, we will link these educational concepts to their implementation
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: D. Curran-Everett, Div. of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, M222, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson St., Denver, CO 80206 (e-mail: [email protected]). 1 For me this was both the fun and the curse of being a basic cardiorespiratory physiologist.
Please e-mail your comments directly to me at EverettD@ NJHealth.org. I look forward to hearing your ideas. This is, after all, truly your journal. I am delighted to continue this journey with you. DISCLOSURES No conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, are declared by the author(s). AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
D.C.-E. drafted and approved final version of this work. REFERENCES 1. Curran-Everett D. Hearts, lungs, and children: a physiologist returns to kindergarten. Adv Physiol Educ 14: 32–36, 1995. 2. Curran-Everett D. The Möbius band: an unusual vehicle for science exploration. Sci Children 34: 22–25, 1997. 3. Curran-Everett D. A physiologist returns with letters by children. Adv Physiol Educ 20: 247–248, 1998. 4. Curran-Everett D. A classic learning opportunity from Fenn, Rahn, and Otis (1946): the alveolar gas equation. Adv Physiol Educ 30: 58 – 62, 2006. 5. Curran-Everett D. A classic learning opportunity from Arthur Guyton and colleagues (1955): circuit analysis of venous return. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 129 –135, 2007. 6. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: standard deviations and standard errors. Adv Physiol Educ 32: 203–208, 2008. 7. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: confidence intervals. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 87–90, 2009. 8. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: hypothesis tests and P values. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 81– 86, 2009. 9. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: the bootstrap. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 286 –292, 2009. 10. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: correlation. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 186 –191, 2010. 11. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: power. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 41– 43, 2010. 12. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: regression. Adv Physiol Educ 35: 347–352, 2011. 13. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: permutation methods. Adv Physiol Educ 36: 181–187, 2012. 14. Curran-Everett D. Explorations in statistics: the analysis of ratios and normalized data. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 213–219, 2013. 15. Curran-Everett D, Benos DJ. Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American Physiological Society. Adv Physiol Educ 28: 85– 87, 2004. 16. Curran-Everett D, Benos DJ. Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American Physiological Society: the sequel. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 295–298, 2007. 17. Curran-Everett D, Benos DJ. Last Word on Perspectives “Guidelines for reporting statistics in journals published by the American
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Editorial 2
ADVANCES: THE NEXT STAGE OF THE JOURNEY
Physiological Society: the sequel”. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 306 –307, 2007. 18. Curran-Everett D, Collins S, Hubert J, Pidick T. Science education partnership between the University of Colorado and a Denver high school. Acad Med 74: 322–325, 1999.
19. Fenn WO. Physiology on horseback. Am J Physiol 159: 551–555, 1949. 20. Lundgren L, Curran-Everett D. Glencoe Health: Health Labs. New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1998. 21. Otis A. Wallace Fenn and the Journal of Applied Physiology. J Appl Physiol 85: 43– 44, 1998.
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