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Creating A Three Dimensional Ngss Aligned Unit On Motion And Energy For Middle Grades Students, Spencer M. Rudie
Creating A Three Dimensional Ngss Aligned Unit On Motion And Energy For Middle Grades Students, Spencer M. Rudie
Honors Capstones
A study was conducted to see how the attitudes of middle school aged students would change with respect to science and engineering before and after participating in a ten-lesson unit. Students from the Barb City STEAM team (n=5) participated in the unit and attitudes assessment The unit was based on the principles of motion and energy, concluding with an engineering challenge where the students analyzed the motion and energy of a mousetrap powered car that they built from common craft materials. Their attitudes were assessed before and after the unit with seven questions using a five-point Likert scale, and the …
Diagram Affordances And Their Impact On Students’ Answers About Rivers And Groundwater, Daniel R. Curtis
Diagram Affordances And Their Impact On Students’ Answers About Rivers And Groundwater, Daniel R. Curtis
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Diagrams are important tools for conveying information in geoscience education. Choosing what imagery to use and assessing its effectiveness is not straightforward. A diagram needs sufficient affordances (i.e., details, dimension) for the viewers to comprehend the intended message without adding too many details that will confuse and distract the viewer. Prior research suggests that the viewer’s knowledge and experience impact how diagram affordances are interpreted. Understanding this interaction between knowledge, context, and diagram affordance is critical for education and assessment.To investigate how changes in affordances affect student interpretation of images, we surveyed undergraduate students (N = 201) in introductory Earth …