Miia Rannikmäe

Miia Rannikmäe (née Tammeorg, born 4 October 1951) is an Estonian chemist specializing in cognitive learning and scientific literacy.[1][2]

Miia Rannikmäe

Biography

Born in Tartu, Rannikmäe graduated in chemistry and as a chemistry teacher from the University of Tartu in 1975. She went on to gain a master's degree in education there in 1996 with a thesis on Phenomenographic analyses of students concept of chemical reaction. In 2001, she earned a PhD in Life and Earth Sciences Education from the same university. As of November 2015, she is Professor of Science Education, heading the Science Education Centre at the University of Tartu.[1]

Her research has covered work on literacy in chemistry among elementary school pupils and the scientific and technological literacy of schoolchildren.[1] She has worked as a school teacher and has links with science teacher associations at home and abroad. In 2004, she contributed to the European Commission's high level group and the publication Europe needs more Scientists. She guides her PhD students in scientific literacy, inquiry learning and the nature of science.[3]

gollark: What if your AI takes over the world or something?
gollark: Because caddy is being annoying, and because I cannot be bothered to try and work out how caddy v2 works, I'm switching some osmarks.tk services back to nginx.
gollark: They have to write code which works *very fast* (speed is such an issue that there are special expensive high-clocked xeon CPUs available, or at least were), and can throw tons of money at 1337 programmers.
gollark: HFT is probably the sort of place you're likely to find stuff you'd consider "quality", considering.
gollark: More machines improves *throughput*, not *latency*.

References
  1. "Staff and Students". Science Education Centre. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  2. "Miia Rannikmäe". ResearchGate. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  3. "Profiles: Estonia". European Commission. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
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