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Download full textErik Siggelkoe; Conor Walsh; Holly M. Golecki – Advances in Engineering Education, 2024
While participation in undergraduate research has many benefits for students including increased confidence and persistence in engineering, community college students do not have the same access to research as students at four-year institutions. To address this disparity, we developed a soft robotics-focused undergraduate research lab at a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Robotics
Direct linkAnderson, Laurel J.; Dosch, Jerald J.; Lindquist, Erin S.; McCay, Timothy S.; Machado, Jose-Luis; Kuers, Karen; Gartner, Tracy B.; Shea, Kathleen L.; Mankiewicz, Carol; Rodgers, Vikki L.; Saunders, Patricia A.; Urban, Rebecca A.; Kilgore, Jason S.; Powell, Amanda S.; Ramage, Benjamin S.; Steinweg, J. Megan; Straub, Jacob N.; Bunnell, Sarah L.; Witkovsky-Eldred, Marissa – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2020
Multisite, course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) in the Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) were assessed for impacts on student learning of collaborative science skills using a survey that could serve as a starting point for a validated assessment instrument for multisite CUREs. Pretests/posttests were administered…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Cooperation, Science Process Skills
Hernando, Miguel; Jung, Jaekeun – Science Teacher, 2020
Science is full of amazing facts, but at times it may be difficult to fully appreciate their significance without an understanding of the scientific practices that gave them meaning. The teaching of evolution may be an example of this situation; there are many interesting facts to consider, but it is equally important for students to learn where…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Evolution, Scientific Concepts
Gouvea, Julia; Appleby, Lara; Fu, Liren; Wagh, Aditi – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Writing a lab report can be an opportunity for students to engage in scientific thinking. Yet students' lab reports often do not exhibit evidence of such engagement. Students' writing can appear focused on "filling in" required components and reporting on predetermined conclusions. We conducted a design experiment in an introductory…
Descriptors: Scientific and Technical Information, Persuasive Discourse, Reports, Science Laboratories
Tobin, Roger G.; Lacy, Sara J.; Crissman, Sally – AERA Open, 2021
In spring 2020, COVID-19 seismically shifted the education landscape as schooling moved online. We report a small-scale mixed-methods study of how that upheaval affected three-dimensional science learning in elementary school classrooms, and how the situation changed when school resumed, in modified form, in fall 2020. Teachers with experience in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, COVID-19
Li, Haiying; Gobert, Janice; Dickler, Rachel – Grantee Submission, 2018
Examining the interaction between content knowledge, inquiry proficiency, and writing proficiency is central to understanding the relative contribution of each proficiency on students' written communication about their science inquiry. Previous studies, however, have only analyzed one of these primary types of knowledge/proficiencies (i.e. content…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Inquiry, Knowledge Level, Writing Skills
Balint, Trevor A.; Teodorescu, Raluca; Colvin, Kimberly; Choi, Youn-Jeng; Pritchard, David – Physics Teacher, 2017
In this paper we examine how different types of participants in a physics Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) tend to use the existing course resources. We use data from the 2013 offering of the Massive Open Online Course 8.MReVx designed by the RELATE (REsearch in Learning Assessing and Tutoring Effectively) Group at the Massachusetts Institute of…
Descriptors: Physics, Online Courses, Instructional Materials, Educational Resources
Watkins, Jessica; Jaber, Lama Z.; Dini, Vesal – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2020
Given the widespread adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards in the United States, there is a need to study new models of professional development to prepare teachers to enact practice-based visions of science learning and to address problems of access to reach teachers nationwide. While studies of online professional development offer…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Professional Development, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
Hunnicutt, Sally S.; Grushow, Alexander; Whitnell, Robert – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
The POGIL-PCL project implements the principles of process-oriented, guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) in order to improve student learning in the physical chemistry laboratory (PCL) course. The inquiry-based physical chemistry experiments being developed emphasize modeling of chemical phenomena. In each experiment, students work through at least…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Chemistry
Mernoff, Brian; Aldous, Amanda R.; Wasio, Natalie A.; Kritzer, Joshua A.; Sykes, E. Charles H.; O'Hagan, Karen – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
Many university science outreach programs involve presentations of research projects to high school students. These presentations often focus more on exciting scientific content and less on fostering direct relationships between high school students and scientists. Such interactions are important for sustaining student interest in science…
Descriptors: Science Fairs, High School Students, Graduate Students, Student Research
Stephens, A. Lynn; Pallant, Amy; McIntyre, Cynthia – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
Deep-sea research is rarely available to undergraduate students. However, as telepresence technology becomes more available, doors may open for more undergraduates to pursue research that includes remote fieldwork. This descriptive case study is an initial investigation into whether such technology might provide a feasible opportunity for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Scientific Research, Oceanography
Sao Pedro, Michael A.; Gobert, Janice D.; Betts, Cameron G. – Grantee Submission, 2014
There are well-acknowledged challenges to scaling computerized performance-based assessments. One such challenge is reliably and validly identifying ill-defined skills. We describe an approach that leverages a data mining framework to build and validate a detector that evaluates an ill-defined inquiry process skill, designing controlled…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing, Inquiry, Science Process Skills
Gobert, Janice D.; Kim, Yoon Jeon; Sao Pedro, Michael; Kennedy, Michael; Betts, Cameron – Grantee Submission, 2015
Many national policy documents underscore the importance of 21st century skills, including critical thinking. In parallel, recent American frameworks for K-12 Science education call for the development of critical thinking skills in science, also referred to as science inquiry skills/practices. Assessment of these skills is necessary, as indicated…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Science Education, Teaching Methods, 21st Century Skills
Sao Pedro, Michael A.; Gobert, Janice D.; Baker, Ryan S. – Grantee Submission, 2014
We explore in this paper if automated scaffolding delivered via a pedagogical agent within a simulation can help students acquire data collection inquiry skills. Our initial analyses revealed that such scaffolding was effective for helping students who initially did not know two specific skills, designing controlled experiments and testing stated…
Descriptors: Automation, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Data Collection
Sao Pedro, Michael A.; Baker, Ryan S. J. d.; Gobert, Janice D.; Montalvo, Orlando; Nakama, Adam – Grantee Submission, 2013
We present work toward automatically assessing and estimating science inquiry skills as middle school students engage in inquiry within a physical science microworld. Towards accomplishing this goal, we generated machine-learned models that can detect when students test their articulated hypotheses, design controlled experiments, and engage in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Inquiry, Middle School Students, Physical Sciences
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