Dear Geoscience Education Researchers,
Adding to Helen King¹s excellent news, we were also informed that our
session titled ³Research on Geoscience Teaching and Learning in Experiential
Environments² will also be on the program at the 2008 GSA in Houston. It
will be Topical Session Number 187. The deadline for abstracts is June 3rd
. An outline of the session is given below.
Description for GSA Today:
Experiential learning environments (field and laboratory) occupy an
important position in geoscience education. This session highlights
research advances in data-driven assessment of learning, problem solving,
and curriculum design in field, laboratory, immersive or virtual settings.
Rationale:
Immersive instructional environments, in particular field and laboratory
settings, are considered a critically important part of the education of
geoscientists, as evidenced by their ubiquitous place in both undergraduate
and graduate programs. Formal geoscience education research on student
learning, problem solving, and cognition in experiential learning settings
(field, laboratory, immersive or virtual environments) has advanced
substantially in recent years. Research results have begun to influence the
design of field and laboratory learning experiences as well as provide new
methods of assessing student learning in these important settings. This
session seeks to highlight research advances in curricular design, methods
or results of assessment of student learning and/or problem-solving, and
other data-driven assessment of teaching effectiveness that reaches well
beyond a basic recounting of individual lessons, program structure or of
evaluation only by student comments. Geoscience education research in
experiential environments is distinct from research in classroom instruction
and is crucial to the continued growth of understanding of how to best
educate geoscience students at all levels in instructional settings which
define our science.
Please consider a submission to this session, and we¹ll see you in Houston!
Eric Riggs and Joe Elkins
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Eric M. Riggs, Ph.D.
Co-Director, CRESME
Center for Research and Engagement in Science and
Mathematics Education
Associate Professor, Departments of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
and Curriculum & Instruction
Director, Indigenous Earth Sciences Project
Purdue University
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250 North University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2066
CRESME: (765) 494-2781
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