Rebecca Ricciardo

Assistant Professor of Teaching

Email: ricciardo.10@osu.edu
Office: 110K Celeste Lab, 120 West 18th Avenue Columbus OH 4321

Areas of Expertise:

· General Chemistry Instruction

· Active Learning teaching practices

· Introductory Chemistry Transfer Credit Evaluations

Bio

Rebecca completed a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Kent State University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2004. She obtained her Ph.D. in solid state inorganic chemistry under the guidance of Patrick Woodward at the Ohio State University in 2009. She was an NSF Materials Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Center for Emergent Materials at OSU from 2009 – 2011. She began teaching large enrollment general chemistry courses during this time, and upon completing her post-doc she continued teaching in some capacity with the department of chemistry & biochemistry as OSU.

Research Overview

Active Learning in Large Enrollment Spaces – I have invested a great deal of energy learning about and implementing active learning strategies in the large enrollment spaces. Within the classroom I collect informal and semi-formal data to assess and inform practices. Student engagement and learning gains are the guiding facets and any technology, strategies, etc. are intentionally chosen to support that for each student.

Personalized Student Connections within Large Enrollment Spaces – In recent years I have been using LMS and classroom data to build personalized messages with recommendations for learning enhancements for each student. I develop these using a workflow from data collection, processing, message generation, then message deployment. At intentional times each semester a student will receive an email using their name, presenting their learning data, and offering unique suggestions based upon their data. In future iterations I plan to build an instructor level dashboard to better view my population in near-real time and use this to determine (1) personalized strategies for under engaged students, (2) small group level strategies for students with room to improve engagement, and (3) course level strategies for enhancing engagement with the general population.

STeM Student Pathways within OSU – I am working with colleagues from other departments to being mapping out our STeM students’ pathways through introductory STeM classes at OSU. In particular we will be looking for which populations access the available stretch STeM courses and their subsequent course pathways. In doing so we plan to gain better understanding of which students likely take stretch courses and what guidance they may benefit from to persist in STeM.

Teaching

I have been involved in the design and implementation of CHEMs 1206 and 1208. I also teach the traditional general chemistry courses CHEM1210 and CHEM1220. I work to create, design, or adapt active learning activities and practices in the large-enrollment classroom spaces. In the past I have also taught CHEMs 1205, 1100, and 4550. I

Publications

1. Clark, T. M., Ricciardo, R. A., Weaver, T. “Transitioning from Expository Laboratory Experiments to Course-Based Undergraduate Research in General Chemistry” J. Chem Ed., 93 (1), 56-63 (2016)

2. Dey, S., Ricciardo, R. A., Cuthbert, H. L., Woodward, P. M. “Metal-to-metal charge transfer in AWO4 (A = Mg, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) tungstate salts with the wolframite structure.” Inorg. Chem. 53 (9), 4394 – 4399 (2014)

3. King, G. M., Ricciardo, R. A., Soliz, J. R., Woodward, P. M. Llobet, A. “Linking local structure and properties in perovskites containing equal concentrations of manganese and ruthenium” Phys. Rev. B 83, 1341231-1341239 (2011)

4. Hauser, A. J., Williams, R. E. A., Ricciardo, R. A., Genc, A., Dixit, M., Lucy, J. M., Woodward, P. M., Fraser, H. L., Yang, F. Y. “Unlocking the potential of half-metallic Sr2FeMoO6 films through controlled stoichiometry and double-perovskite ordering” Phys. Rev. B 83, 0144071-0144076 (2011)

5. Rutkowski, M., Hauser, A. J., Yang, F. Y., Ricciardo, R. A., Meyer, T., Woodward, P. M., Holcombe, A., Morris, P. A., Brillson, L. J. “X-ray photoemission spectroscopy of Sr2FeMoO6 film stoichiometry and valence state” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 28, 1240 – 1244 (2010)

6. Ricciardo, R. A., Woodward, P. M., Cuthbert, H. L., Zhou, Q., Kennedy, B. J., Zhang, Z., Avdeev, M., Jang, L.-Y. “Structure and properties of Sr1-xCaxMn0.5Ru0.5O3 perovskites: Using chemical pressure to control Mn/Ru mixed valency” Chem. Mater. 22, 3369 – 3382 (2010)

7. Ricciardo, R. A., Hauser, A. J., Yang, F. Y., Kim, H., Lu, W., Woodward P. M. “Structural, Magnetic, and Electronic Characterization of double perovskites BixLa2 xMnMO6 (M = Ni, Co; x = 0.25, 0.50)” Mater. Res. Bull. 44, 239 – 247 (2008)

8. Hauser, A. J., Zhang, J., Mier, L., Ricciardo, R. A., Woodward, P. M., Gustafson, T. L., Brillson, L. J., Yang, F. Y. “Characterization of electronic structure and defect states of thin epitaxial BiFeO3 films by UV-visible absorption and cathodoluminescence spectroscopies” Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 222901 (2008)

9. P. M. Woodward, J. Goldberger, M. W. Stoltzfus, H. W. Eng, R. A. Ricciardo, P. N. Santhosh, P. Karen, A. R. Moodenbaugh. “Electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of Sr2MnRuO6 and LaSrMnRuO6 double perovskites” J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 91, 1796 – 1806 (2008)