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Applying Machine Learning to Intelligent Assessment of Scientific Creativity Based on Scientific Knowledge Structure and Eye-Tracking Data
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Yang Zhang; Yangping Li; Weiping Hu; Huizhi Bai; Yuanjing Lyu – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2025
Scientific creativity plays an essential role in science education as an advanced cognitive ability that inspires students to solve scientific problems inventively. The cultivation of scientific creativity relies heavily on effective assessment. Typically, human raters manually score scientific creativity using the Consensual Assessment Technique…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Scientific Concepts
Operationalizing Optimization in a Middle School Virtual Engineering Internship
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Montgomery, Ryan; Greenwald, Eric; Crane, Samuel; Krakowski, Ari; Barber, Jacqueline – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2020
New national science standards have elevated attention to student performance with a core set of science and engineering practices, yet guidance about how to assess these practices is only just emerging in the literature. This is particularly true for the set of engineering design-focused concepts and practices articulated in the Next Generation…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Engineering, Design, Internship Programs
Combining Machine Learning and Qualitative Methods to Elaborate Students' Ideas about the Generality of Their Model-Based Explanations
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Rosenberg, Joshua M.; Krist, Christina – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2021
Assessing students' participation in science practices presents several challenges, especially when aiming to differentiate meaningful (vs. rote) forms of participation. In this study, we sought to use machine learning (ML) for a novel purpose in science assessment: developing a construct map for students' "consideration of generality,"…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Models
What Can Be Learned from Computer Modeling? Comparing Expository and Modeling Approaches to Teaching Dynamic Systems Behavior
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van Borkulo, Sylvia P.; van Joolingen, Wouter R.; Savelsbergh, Elwin R.; de Jong, Ton – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2012
Computer modeling has been widely promoted as a means to attain higher order learning outcomes. Substantiating these benefits, however, has been problematic due to a lack of proper assessment tools. In this study, we compared computer modeling with expository instruction, using a tailored assessment designed to reveal the benefits of either mode…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Climate, Task Analysis
A Model for Programmatic Evaluation by Student Assessment
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Vogt, F. Daniel; Slish, Donald – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011
The goal of the Department of Biological Sciences faculty was to evaluate how effectively our undergraduate biology program supports the goals and intended outcomes of our department and institution. Student responses in written assessment tests have provided the foundation of this evaluation. Each semester questions were selected by a…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Biology, Educational Assessment
Design Patterns for Learning and Assessment: Facilitating the Introduction of a Complex Simulation-Based Learning Environment into a Community of Instructors
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Frezzo, Dennis C.; Behrens, John T.; Mislevy, Robert J. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2010
Simulation environments make it possible for science and engineering students to learn to interact with complex systems. Putting these capabilities to effective use for learning, and assessing learning, requires more than a simulation environment alone. It requires a conceptual framework for the knowledge, skills, and ways of thinking that are…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Networks, Educational Environment, Models