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Investigating Student Learning About Disease Spread And Prevention In The Context Of Agent-Based Computational Modeling, Siyu Wu
Student Research Symposium
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a need to help students learn about public health issues, including the transmission of disease and methods for the prevention of epidemics. This study presents data from a project aimed at developing a computational modeling microworld to help middle school students learn about the spread of disease. The microworld is meant to help students model and test their ideas about how a disease spreads through a population and how an epidemic can be prevented. I employed a lab-based case study approach to conduct one-on-one 1.5-hour interviews through Zoom with four middle school students (ages 12-14). …
Understanding Cultural Competence Training With Trauma-Informed Clinicians, Emily Slater, Brayden Gulso
Understanding Cultural Competence Training With Trauma-Informed Clinicians, Emily Slater, Brayden Gulso
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Our USU research team partnered with the Intensive Outpatient Clinic (IOC) at the U of U. The IOC is a multi-disciplinary clinic serving diverse, and vulnerable patients. The IOC identified a need for ongoing cultural training in their organization, and the medical field more broadly. We worked with the IOC to co-develop a cultural competence training with both online and in-person components. Currently, the IOC has completed the training course, and our research is in the data collection phase. We will shared the story of our partnership work, research design, anticipated findings, and next steps. Acknowledgement: This research is supported …
Esports Course Design: Balancing Multiplayer Gameplay Within Structured Curriculum, Daelynn Hunter
Esports Course Design: Balancing Multiplayer Gameplay Within Structured Curriculum, Daelynn Hunter
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There is a noticeably large interest growing across the globe for Esports expansion. Esports has grown to become an affinity space for competitive ambition/growth and a discipline of enormously varied learning techniques. Techniques to build esports into education often follow a 3 credit format, where esports can be studied in various areas (e.g., business, psychology, media/production). However, there’s been an absence in courses that are focused solely in gameplay. Traditionally, gaming has been observed to be a distraction over opportunity for growth. The course is currently centered to target said assumptions by utilizing student discipline techniques. Assignments are centered around …
Challenges In Integrating Computer Science Into K-12 Education And How We Approach It, Mengying Jiang
Challenges In Integrating Computer Science Into K-12 Education And How We Approach It, Mengying Jiang
Student Research Symposium
A promising approach to make sure all students have opportunities to learn about computing is to integrate computer science (CS) into existing disciplines such as math and science. This project aims to integrate CS into Montana schools while also offering content that aligns with the Indian Education for All Act (IEFA). We are developing elementary and middle school units and teacher training materials that integrate CS, Indian Education, and other K-12 standards in Science, Language Arts, and Visual Arts. Our approach to curriculum design is through Research-Practice Partnership and a three-level strategy framework that supports students’ CS and disciplinary learning.
Applying Cognitive Load Theory To Video Materials To Increase Metacognition And Improve Academic Performance Of Structured Query Language Course, Kyle Lam
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Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them.This course was highly technical for the undergraduate students, to make the learning more effective, the teacher must assess the intrinsic cognitive load on the learner and adjust the extraneous cognitive load when creating video materials.This study applied cognitive load theory (CLT) to remove split attention and redundancy effects; offer suitable worked examples and segmentation to decrease the cognitive load demand of learners.This study tries to address the relationship between cognitive load level and metacognition, and clarify how …
The 6 Levels Of Gamification: Introducing A New Organization Structure To Game-Based Learning, Treion Muller
The 6 Levels Of Gamification: Introducing A New Organization Structure To Game-Based Learning, Treion Muller
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Gamification has become a popular buzzword and learning strategy in educational settings from K-12 to Higher Education, and to business learning and development (L & D) teams. Since the term 'gamification' was first coined there has been a significant increase of research on the topic as it relates to training and education, as well as a rapid rise of many new commercially sold gamification and learning technologies, tools, and platforms. However, what's lacking is a formal definition, theoretical approach, and taxonomy. The purpose of this study is to identify and organize the core gamification taxonomies, theoretical frameworks, and design elements …
Computational Thinking And Professional Learning For Paraprofessionals, Aubrey Rogowski
Computational Thinking And Professional Learning For Paraprofessionals, Aubrey Rogowski
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In the past decade, there has been increasing emphasis on preparing K-12 students for the workforce, including an increased emphasis on science, technology, engineering, math, and computing (STEM + C). One way in which this is reflected is in K-12 computer science (CS) standards that have been adopted by many states. However, many current teachers lack sufficient skills and knowledge to teach CS. In addition, there is a lack of time in the school day for teachers to teach the CS curriculum. To address this issue, many school districts throughout Utah have delegated the teaching of the CS curriculum, which …
Curricular Adaptations By Paraprofessionals During Their Computer Lab Instruction Using Block-Based Coding, Prasina Parameswaran
Curricular Adaptations By Paraprofessionals During Their Computer Lab Instruction Using Block-Based Coding, Prasina Parameswaran
Student Research Symposium
Classroom adaptation is one of the key elements in filling the gap between understanding and application of knowledge in the real world. Our work emphasizes upon the classroom adaptations in the Math classroom. We are studying 5th grade students and computer science (CS) paraprofessionals in the Western United States. Paraprofessionals are provided professional development (PD) to familiarize them with CS and Scratch. Scratch is a block based coding program which uses visual interface and is used for making animations, games, digital stories etc. As paraprofessionals are not certified teachers, this PD works towards helping them understand the Math content and …
Implementation Of Humanized Elements In Online Courses And User Testing Feedback, Roxie Christensen
Implementation Of Humanized Elements In Online Courses And User Testing Feedback, Roxie Christensen
Student Research Symposium
Online courses in higher education often lack key elements that invite students into a course. The absence of these elements may make the course lack social presence and connectedness. Students can experience a sense of aloneness the course which can cause disengagement and loss of motivation. However, the implementation of humanized elements in a course can facilitate engagement and motivation. This study facilitated the implementation of humanized elements in order to make online courses more inclusive for minoritized students by focusing on social presence and connectedness. During the pilot course, humanized elements were implemented and user testing was conducted at …
I'M Telling You, It Just Won't Work, Bonni Jones
I'M Telling You, It Just Won't Work, Bonni Jones
Student Research Symposium
Science teachers feel pressure to align with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), embrace innovative methods and technology tools with their supporting pedagogies, yet daily classroom practices rarely incorporate them. Investigations of this phenomenon include professional development (PD) effectiveness, teacher learning, beliefs, views, and resistance to change. Investigation findings have not uncovered how to reverse the trend. A search to understand the tensions and barriers that outweigh the pressures mentioned above is one aim of this study. Tensions surface when teachers and students are expected to replace lectures, worksheets, teacher-led labs, and tests with the following: asking questions, defining problems, …