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Resources For Interdisciplinary Understanding Of Energy, Alessandra Hughes, Jessica Trottier
Resources For Interdisciplinary Understanding Of Energy, Alessandra Hughes, Jessica Trottier
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In most undergraduate curricula, students are expected to have the ability to apply, or transfer, a learned concept to new coursework. In the sciences, students are often introduced to energy ideas with discipline-specific vocabulary and tasks which encourage compartmentalized, surface-level understandings of energy concepts. Our research investigates student transfer of energy ideas within a coherent science course series, where physics is the foundational course. Similar modeling tools and vocabulary are used in the classes to help students see energy as a unifying framework. We seek to identify and describe what transfer “looks like” in this idealized context by interviewing students …
Change At The Core: An Initial Implementation Of Active Learning Strategies In Large, Lecture Science Courses, Travis Salmi
Change At The Core: An Initial Implementation Of Active Learning Strategies In Large, Lecture Science Courses, Travis Salmi
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Change at the Core (C-Core) is a faculty professional development program designed to investigate and employ the benefits of student focused learning in introductory science courses. It is a multidisciplinary effort among science educators at three higher education institutions to understand different possible learning strategy implementations. We are using case studies to investigate these implementations, the challenges involved, and the student responses to these approaches. Previous research has shown that students respond with greater learning outcomes towards alternatives to lectures. Data are being collected through classroom observations, student surveys, and faculty interviews. So far, we have observed a range of …