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Viskupic, Karen; Egger, Anne E.; McFadden, Rory R.; Schmitz, Mark D. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
A goal of undergraduate geoscience programs is to prepare students for the geoscience workforce. In order to understand the extent to which programs succeed at this goal, we identified desired workforce skills, compiled undergraduate geoscience program requirements, and mapped workforce skills onto faculty responses to the 2016 National Geoscience…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Skills, Communication Skills
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Murphy, Phillip J.; Chan, Lung Sang; Murphy, Elizabeth – School Science Review, 2012
The development and delivery of an Earth-science-focused short course designed to prepare Hong Kong students for university level study is described. Earth sciences provide an inspirational and challenging context for learning and teaching in Hong Kong's increasingly skills-based curriculum. (Contains 3 figures and 4 online resources.)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Earth Science, Science Instruction, College Bound Students
Ellins, Katherine K.; Olson, Hilary Clement – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2012
The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and Huston-Tillotson University collaborated on a proof of concept project to offer a geoscience course to undergraduate students and preservice teachers in order to expand the scope of geoscience education within the local minority student and teacher population. Students were exposed to rigorous…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Preservice Teachers, Minority Group Students, Pretests Posttests