Instructor
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Sullivan Hall, 431
Queens, NY 11439
(718) 990-6775
morabitn@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
M.Ed. Secondary Education, Vanderbilt University,
2002
B.A. Biology, University of Virginia,
2000
Research
Teacher and Student Understanding of the Nature of
Science
Science Teacher Development
Selected Publications &
Presentations:
Morabito, N.P., Catley, K.M., & Novick, L.R. (2010). Reasoning
about evolutionary history: Post-secondary students’ knowledge of
most recent common ancestry and homoplasy. Journal of Biological
Education, 44(4), 166-174.
Roscoe, R.D., Morabito, N.P., & Biswas, G. (2009, April).
Learning about ecology through causal concept mapping. Paper
presented at the National Association for Research in Science
Teaching, Garden Grove, CA.
Morabito, N.P., Catley, K.M., & Novick, L.R. (2008, March).
Lizards and frogs or lizards and mammals: College students'
understanding of most recent common ancestry. Paper presented at
the National Association for Research in Science Teaching,
Baltimore.