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Direct linkBriley L. Lewis; Abygail R. Waggoner; Emma Clarke; Alison L. Crisp; Mark Dodici; Graham M. Doskoch; Michael M. Foley; Ryan Golant; Skylar Grayson; Sahil Hegde; Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas; Charles J. Law; R. R. Lefever; Ishan Mishra; Mark Popinchalk; Sabina Sagynbayeva; Samantha L. Wong; Wei Yan; Kaitlyn L. Ingraham Dixie; K. Supriya – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, yet reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in major courses. We seek to determine the efficacy of a reading assignment designed to improve undergraduate astronomy (or related) majors' perceived…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Astronomy
Linghong Li; Wayne F. Patton – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2025
The evolving landscape of higher education demands integrating advanced technologies to foster engaging and inclusive learning environments. This paper examines the practical integration of Stellarium, a virtual planetarium software, and ChatGPT, an AI conversational agent, in an asynchronous online undergraduate astronomy course. Stellarium…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Astronomy, Science Education, Artificial Intelligence
Lockard, Joe; Goggin, Peter – Science & Education, 2023
The paper describes an upper-division university course in Mars literature taught online since Fall 2013. The course readings comprise six novels relating to Mars. Authors include H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, Greg Bear, and Kim Stanley Robinson. After an introduction, sections of the paper discuss course…
Descriptors: College Science, Astronomy, Space Sciences, Science Instruction
Justin A. Gutzwa; Ramón S. Barthelemy; Camila Amaral; Madison Swirtz; Adrienne Traxler; Charles Henderson – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Despite knowing physics and astronomy doctoral programs are laden with identity-based inequities, they continue to push minoritized students to the margins. This qualitative social network analysis of 100 women and/or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and more (LGBT+) physics and astronomy Ph.D.'s explores how minoritized physics and…
Descriptors: Females, LGBTQ People, Minority Group Students, Doctoral Students
Kathryn Williamson; Ellen Belchior Rodrigues; Myya Helm; Christopher Cunningham; Daniel Gallegos; Unique Beaver; Iahnna Henry – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
As science educators, we have an important opportunity to influence perceptions of who does science, and we can work to empower students to make our disciplines more accessible to people of all backgrounds. This goal was explicitly built into an introductory college astronomy course through the theme of "Who Speaks for Earth?"…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Racism, Gender Bias
Reichart, Daniel E. – Physics Teacher, 2021
For the past dozen years, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill has been developing a unique, survey-level astronomy curriculum, primarily for undergraduate students, with the goal of significantly boosting STEM enrollments on a national scale, as well as boosting students' technical and research skills. Called "Our Place In…
Descriptors: College Science, Undergraduate Students, Robotics, Laboratory Equipment
Scowcroft, Victoria; Davies, Steve R.; Mathlin, Gary; Sloan, Peter A. – Physics Education, 2023
Astronomy is one of the few sciences where the data (star-light) can be seen by all. Yet, there is a disconnect between a typical undergraduate lecture and, for example, where a planet may be in the sky and how to observe it. With the advent of moderate cost, high-quality 'back-garden' astronomy, and standard computers powerful enough to produce…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Science Laboratories
Qing Guo; Yuqing Chen; Cuilan Qiao; Yunwei Yu – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
Science data literacy (SDL) is an important literacy for college students in STEM majors to possess. However, the current understanding of SDL is incomplete and lacks effective cultivation strategies. This study integrates the core ideas of science literacy (SL) and data literacy (DL), while considering the characteristics of science data, and…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Equipment, Science Process Skills, Skill Development
Pinochet, Jorge – Physics Education, 2019
Given the great interest that black holes arouse among non-specialists, it is important to analyse misconceptions related to them. According to the author, the most common misconceptions are that: (1) black holes are formed from stellar collapse; (2) they are very massive; (3) they are very dense; (4) their gravity absorbs everything; and (5) they…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Misconceptions, Physics, Secondary School Science
Johnson, Sidney L.; Hatzikoutelis, Athanasios; Smallwood, Christopher L. – Physics Teacher, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic imposed profound changes on the way we think about undergraduate physics education. Online courses became mainstream. Exam formats were reimagined. Digital whiteboards replaced face-to-face discussions. Laboratory classes were outfitted with home-delivered supply kits. And all of us developed a more intimate knowledge of…
Descriptors: College Science, Physics, Astronomy, Online Courses
Craig, David M.; Leslie, Lewis R. – Physics Education, 2021
A practical experiment is described to estimate the distance to a star using simple equipment, suitable for secondary or undergraduate students. The brightness of the star is visually matched to a miniature filament lamp, and its distance inferred from the inverse square law. Students gain an appreciation of astronomical units and practice in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Secondary School Science, Undergraduate Study
Download full textAirey, John; Eriksson, Urban – Designs for Learning, 2019
In this paper we are interested in the relationship between disciplinary knowledge and its representation. We carry out a social semiotic analysis of a central tool used in astronomy--the Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram--in order to highlight its disciplinary and pedagogical affordances. The H-R diagram that we know today combines many layers of…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Visual Aids, Semiotics, Affordances
Tyler, John; Mulvey, Patrick; Nicholson, Starr – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2020
The majority (67%) of degree-granting physics departments in the United States grant a bachelor's degree as their highest degree. There are 84 departments that grant astronomy bachelor's degrees. Of these departments, 39 are separate, stand-alone astronomy departments, and 45 are in departments that award both astronomy and physics degrees. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Physics, Astronomy
Wallace, Colin S.; Hatcher, Chase; Chambers, Timothy G.; Hornstein, Seth D.; Kamenetzky, Julia; Prather, Edward E. – Physics Teacher, 2021
The ground-breaking image of a black hole's event horizon, which captured the public's attention and imagination in April 2019, was captured using the power of interferometry: many separate telescopes working together to observe the cosmos in incredible detail. Many recent astrophysical discoveries that have revolutionized the scientific…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Equipment, Measurement Equipment, Active Learning
James Planey; Taehyun Kim; Emma Mercier; Robb Lindgren – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Immersive technologies have the potential to play unique roles in the collaborative problem-solving process. To advance research in these contexts, new methods of documenting group collaboration with technology are necessary. The goal of this paper is to develop and utilize a coding scheme that enables investigation of the nature of collaborative…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Computer Simulation
