Helen,
One future direction for research includes
increasing the depth of research on geoscience
misconceptions, which lags woefully behind that of
the other disciplines in science. You might also
consider the relative nature of field experiences
and engagement in real (uncontrolled) phenomena, the
integration of variable spatial and temporal scales,
and the nature of inquiry in the geosciences
relative to other sciences. Just some thoughts...
Regards,
Eric
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:43:41 -0400
From: Helen King
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Subject: Geoscience Education Research Info
Request
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Hi everyone,
I have been invited to participate in a panel
discussion at a
workshop conducted by the National Academies’
Board on Science Education
at the end of June. I’ve been asked to provide a
brief presentation
summarizing the major findings from geoscience
education research and
identifying directions for future research (see
messages below).
Whilst I feel I have a reasonable perspective on
these things
myself, it would be great to know that I’m
appropriately representing the
community of geoscience education researchers. So
I’d really welcome your
ideas and comments under each of these headings:
1)
Summarize the major findings from discipline-based
education
research in your discipline (geosciences).
2)
Identify the most promising or important
directions for future
research.
Thanks very much for your help and hope to see you
all at GSA in
October!
All the best,
Helen
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From: Hilton, Margaret
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Sent: 04 June 2008 13:09
To: Helen King
Cc: Schweingruber, Heidi; Krone, Rebecca
Subject: RE: Invitation-June 30th
Hi, Helen:
Thanks so much for participating in the panel
discussion of
discipline-based geosciences education research at
our June 30th
workshop. This panel is tentatively scheduled to
last one hour and will
include 4 panelists from different disciplines.
In order to maximize
discussion, I hope you will provide a brief
10-minute presentation that will do
two things:
3)
Summarize the major findings from discipline-based
education
research in your discipline (geosciences).
4)
Identify the most promising or important
directions for future
research.
The other panelists will include Bill Wood,
Biology,
University of Colorado; Joe Redish, Physics,
University of Maryland,
and Art Ellis, Chemistry, Seattle Pacific
University.
I’ll send you the agenda next week, when it is
more fully
developed.
Margaret
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From: Hilton, Margaret
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Sent: 03 June 2008 11:56
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Cc: Schweingruber, Heidi
Subject: Invitation-June 30th
Dear
Dr. King:
With
support from the National Science Foundation, the
National Academies’
Board on Science Education is conducting a series
of two workshops on Promising
Practices in Undergraduate STEM Education. The
workshops are designed to
explore the evidence of impact for selected
innovations and to provide
information to the Wisconsin Center for Education
Research in its effort to
expand national dissemination of evidence-based
knowledge and resources to
improve undergraduate STEM education. A more
complete description of the
workshop series is pasted below this message.
I’m
writing to invite you to participate in a panel
discussion of discipline-based
education research during the first workshop, to
be held on June 30th here
in Washington, DC. The overall guiding question
for this panel is: What
is the state of evidence in discipline-based
education research? We are
especially interested in the state of evidence of
the effectiveness of changes
in pedagogy within individual STEM courses and
classrooms.
If
you are interested and available, we would ask you
to prepare a short
presentation as part of the panel discussion.
I
hope to hear from you soon about your
participation in this important workshop.
Sincerely,
Margaret
Hilton
Margaret
Hilton
Senior Program
Officer
Center for
Education
The National
Academies
202-334-1419
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Numerous and varied teaching, learning,
assessment, and
institutional promising practices in
undergraduate STEM education have
been developed in recent years – many funded by
NSF-- but little is known
about their impact. The goal of this proposal is
to begin to focus on the
evidence of impact for a selected number of such
promising practices. To
do this the National Research Council (NRC) will
facilitate two, one-day
workshops which will be overseen by an independent
steering committee appointed
by the Chairman of the NRC. Each workshop will
shed light on the state of
knowledge on the selected STEM promising practices
as well as suggest areas for
additional research or where a major synthesis of
existing research is
needed. All of the conceptual work described in
this proposal will be
coordinated with and provide information and
guidance to the work of another
proposal being sent to NSF by the Wisconsin Center
for Education Research
(WCER).
Eric J. Pyle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Geology and Environmental Science
James Madison University
MSC 6903
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
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