Kathryn Parsley is a Ph.D. candidate whose specialty is plant blindness and botanical literacy. She is creating tools to asses plant blindness in students and hopes to make her tools available to teachers for use in any learning environment.

Why did Kathryn choose to study plant blindness?

What are her tools about?

Let's find out.

LINKS

Kathryn's website

Validity and Reliability of the Plant Blindness Index (PBI) and the Botanical Literacy Inventory (BLI)

Analyzing Plant and Animal Images in Undergraduate Biology Textbooks

The Plant Blindness Problem

Sabel Lab at University of Memphis

Center for Biodiversity at the University of Memphis

Kathryn's Plantae Fellow profile

Kathryn on LinkedIn

Kathryn on Twitter

Kathryn on Instagram

Toward a Theory of Plant Blindness

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