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GEOED-RESEARCH March 2009

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Re: Qualitative Research: GSA Special Paper Abstract soliciation

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Emma Farmer <[log in to unmask]>

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GEOEDUCATION RESEARCH INTEREST GROUP <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:39:50 -0500

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Hello Anthony,
I am really not sure if my manuscript is what you are looking for, but I
am submitting it to you in the hopes that you can give me some feedback
about whether it is appropriate for your special volume.  Below is my
abstract: yes, the paper mostly describes student surveys with
quantitative results, but the aspects they are self-reporting on are
qualitative in the sense that they are trying to measure their own
self-confidence on several tasks.  Any more specific feedback you can
give me about what you are looking for would be greatly appreciated.  
Thanks very much,
--Christa

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Accelerating Student Learning About Climate Change
with Graded Debates Instead of Examinations
By E. Christa Farmer
Assistant Professor, Hofstra University Geology Department
156 Gittleson Hall, Hempstead, NY 11549-1140
phone: 516-463-5566; fax: 516-463-5120; email: [log in to unmask]
Submitted to Anthony Feig and Alison Stokes, editors, in response to
their Call for Papers for a Geological Society of America Special Paper
on “Qualitative Inquiry in Geoscience Education.”

Abstract:
Introductory college science courses often seem to overwhelm students
with an onslaught of information to be memorized.  In a special seminar
on climate change for first-year college students, I set out to help
students learn how to access, summarize, and evaluate scientific
information rather than simply memorize it.  I was hoping that this
approach of emphasizing higher-order skills in Bloom’s taxonomy of
cognitive development would give them tools for understanding new
scientific information that they could continue to utilize in their
lives whether they went on to study more science or (more typically)
not.  Inspired by a discussion with a colleague in the Political Science
department, I decided to set up a curriculum for my new course that
included graded classroom debates in conjunction with quantitative
problem sets.  The debate format included an individual written
assignment of a “position paper,” and tightly constrained roles for each
student in the classroom debate including two “Proponents” for each
side, five “Questioners,” one “Conciliator,” and two “Supporters” for
each side.

This adoption of graded debates as a collaborative learning exercise
instead of traditional individual written exams seems to have enhanced
student learning.  Pre- and post-course surveys about student confidence
in their ability to perform tasks involved in scientific inquiry
document significant increases in skills utilized in debates.  Skills
showing improvement include interpreting tables and graphs, extracting
main points from scientific articles, and determining valid scientific
evidence about climate change.  Students’ post-course survey responses
consistently identify group activities, including graded debates, as the
most effective course components.  As the instructor, I also observed
greater student engagement during class time than in similar
introductory classes in which students were given traditional individual
written exams.  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
E. Christa Farmer, Ph.D.
Hofstra University
Geology Department
145 Gittleson Hall
Hempstead, NY 11549
516-463-5566
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>>> Anthony Feig <[log in to unmask]> 03/03/09 4:58 PM >>>
Greetings Friends,

I am writing to advise you all that contributors and manuscripts are  
still being solicited for a GSA Special Papers volume titled,  
"Qualitative Inquiry in Geoscience Education Research." This message  
is to remind potential contributors that the deadline for abstract  
submission to this volume is 28 March 2009.

We would love to have your abstract! This is a special opportunity for  
the geoscience education community to participate in describing their  
applications of qualitative methods to geoscience education/ 
geocognition research, as well as complete qualitative studies. This  
volume will be the first of its kind, and we hope it will become a key  
reference in the liteComplete information and instructions in PDF format can be downloaded  
here.
(http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/CTL/GSA-SP_call_for_papers.pdf

)

Best wishes,

Anthony D. Feig (Central Michigan University) and Alison Stokes  
(University of Plymouth)


Anthony D. Feig
Assistant Professor of Geology & Science Education
Department of Geology
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant MI 48859
989.774.1249
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