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Decentralization of Virtual Field Trip Production: A Proposed Framework for Producing Virtual Field Trips for Place-Based Education and How the Production Process Impacts Sense of Place and Content Knowledge Gains
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Ruberto, Thomas Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In-person field education through exploration is fundamental in geoscience, but equal access is limited by time, cost, safety, distance, physical ability, and instructor variability. Technology advances allow students to explore pedagogically rich but inaccessible places through virtual field trips (VFTs). Studies show that VFTs result in…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Computer Simulation, Field Trips, Learning Experience
The Impact of the Use of Science Notebooks in Conjunction with a Learning Progression-Based Science Unit in an Urban Middle School
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Williams, Reagan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Learning progressions are the latest tool to understand the ways science learning occurs and they underlie the structure and framework of the "Next Generation Science Standards". Prior research indicated a variety of ways to develop and validate learning progressions and learning progression's general positive impact on students' science…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Urban Schools, Middle School Students, Instructional Effectiveness
Episodic Uplift of the Rocky Mountains: Evidence from U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology and Low-Temperature Thermochronology with a Chapter on Using Mobile Technology for Geoscience Education
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Donahue, Maria Magdalena Sandoval – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The timing and processes of development of the high topography and high relief of the southern Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico has been controversial for over a hundred years. This study applies several different methodologies towards understanding the timing and relative importance of the events that uplifted and shaped the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Earth Science
Toward an Understanding of "Teaching in the Making:" Explaining Instructional Decision Making by Analyzing a Geology Instructor's Use of Metaphors
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Dolphin, Glenn Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There is a need to enhance science and geoscience literacy. Effective instruction allows students opportunity to build their own models, test them, make their own arguments, and discern reliability of the claims and arguments of others. Attempts at designing and importing such instruction have shown limited implementation fidelity, even with…
Descriptors: Geology, Science Education, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
Determining Persistence of Community College Students in Introductory Geology Classes
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Kraft, Katrien van der Hoeven – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) careers have been touted as critical to the success of our nation and also provide important opportunities for access and equity of underrepresented minorities (URM's). Community colleges serve a diverse population and a large number of undergraduates currently enrolled in college, they are…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Geology, Academic Persistence, Two Year College Students
Using Active Learning Strategies to Investigate Student Learning and Attitudes in a Large Enrollment, Introductory Geology Course
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Berry, Stacy Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There has been an increased emphasis for college instruction to incorporate more active and collaborative involvement of students in the learning process. These views have been asserted by The Association of American Colleges (AAC), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and The National Research Counsel (NRC), which are advocating for the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Student Attitudes, Large Group Instruction