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How Do Classroom-Turnover Times Depend On Lecture-Hall Size?, Joseph Benson, Mariya Bessonov, Korana Burke, Simone Cassani, Maria-Veronica Ciocanel, Daniel B. Cooney, Alexandria Volkening

Publications and Research

Academic spaces in colleges and universities span classrooms for 10 students to lecture halls that hold over 600 people. During the break between consecutive classes, students from the first class must leave and the new class must find their desks, regardless of whether the room holds 10 or 600 people. Here we address the question of how the size of large lecture halls affects classroom-turnover times, focusing on non-emergency settings. By adapting the established social-force model, we treat students as individuals who interact and move through classrooms to reach their destinations. We find that social interactions and the separation time …

Math Education Project And Rso Creation, Keegan Oldani

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Reflection on Math Education Senior Honors Project and RSO Creation

Naval Engineering For Grades 4-6, Patrick Young

Publications & Research

Reading The Girl with a Mind for Math, we learn about the career of Raye Montague, an African-American woman who broke every barrier to pioneer computer-aided ship design and become the first female program manager in the United States Navy. Lessons are provided for using free, online software to design ships while exercising several Common Core Math standards and NGSS standards for engineering design.

Including The Literary Arts As The A In Steam, Lindsay E. Cunningham

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

This article examines the integration of literature into secondary STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) classes in British Columbia, Canada. Data were collected through interviews with nine secondary STEM subject teachers and focus on teachers’ perceptions of the effects of including literature, what/how literature has been included, as well as the barriers, both real and perceived, to doing so.

A review of the literature demonstrates that integrating literature into STEM can be appealing to a broad range of students and teachers and can help to engage students with a variety of interests, perspectives, and backgrounds. The arts, including the literary arts, …

Centering Community In Disciplinary Literacy Implementation: One District’S Story, Jenelle Williams, Stacie Angel, Jennifer Wilcox, Angela Church

Michigan Reading Journal

In this article, the authors describe the various ways they have centered community while implementing disciplinary literacy in their district. They outline how the work began, the role of professional learning, and the systemic approaches that are effectively moving the work forward. This story offers an alternate approach to implementation--one that honors educators' expertise, differentiates approaches, and develops collective efficacy.

Dual Vocations Of Science And Religion: A Historical Case Study Of Benedictine Women, Diana Fenton

Education Faculty Publications

This study examines Catholic Benedictine sisters who majored in sciences and taught science for over 100 years at the College of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph, Minnesota, USA. In 1913, the College of Saint Benedict began as a women’s college, expanding Saint Benedict’s Academy, a boarding high school for women. This historical organizational case study analyzed archived data to understand the benefits and challenges of women who lived religious lives and studied science. Although women, in general, are still underrepresented in the sciences, the data collected provides information on how the sisters obtained advanced degrees as early as 1923, well …

Sea-Phages Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience For Creating A Biotechnology Workforce Development Pipeline, Daphne Fauber, Kari Clase, Carol Weaver

Graduate Industrial Research Symposium

Purdue University has been a member of the SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) program since 2011. This program, created in conjunction with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), facilitates undergraduate curriculum for the authentic discovery of novel bacteriophages within the classroom. Since joining the program, undergraduates at Purdue have harnessed wet lab and bioinformatics principles to contribute over 200 previously uncharacterized bacteriophages and 25 novel genomes to the wider scientific literature. The SEA-PHAGES classes at Purdue have resulted in tangible professional deliverables for students through conference presentations and publications. Student outcomes also include transferable skills …

Moving From Theory To Practice: Examining Teaching Mathematics For Social Justice In An Elementary School Classroom, Krystal Giles

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Teaching mathematics for social justice is a distinctive approach to mathematics education that seeks to have students use mathematics to navigate their identities, understand their lived experiences, examine inequities, and become agents of change. Current research provides a rich explanation of what teaching mathematics for social justice entails. Still, there is a need for research that studies how to move from theory to practice. The purpose of this research study is to examine the experience of teaching mathematics for social justice within my fifth-grade mathematics classroom for myself and my students, analyze the extent to which students’ ethnic and academic …

Science Assessments As A Learning Opportunity: Feedforward With Multiple Attempts, Emily Faulconer

Publications

Feedback best practices support timely, high-quality feedback with application opportunity. Multiple attempts on assessments support learning gains. A learning management system can be used to automatically provide feedback for application on a future assessment attempt. Current research has not thoroughly investigated the student impacts or opinions on this combined strategy. In this study, students took a second attempt 46% of the time, scoring an average of 10.1% higher on their second attempt. More than 60% of students who failed their first attempt completed a second attempt. Students perceived the feedback as useful in preparing for their second attempt. Future research …

Investigación, Educación Integral E Innovación En Matemáticas Y Ciencias Exactas Para El Desarrollo, Bruce G. Bukiet, Cristo Leon, James Lipuma, Mossella L. Martínez Martínez, Eric S. Niño Reyes, Edson A. Torres López, Lilián A. Reynosa Martínez, Jorge O. Moreno Treviño, Adriana Camacho Gómez

STEM for Success Resources

Este libro electrónico (e-book) contiene la colección de los trabajos de investigación presentados en el área de matemáticas y ciencias exactas en el Congreso Internacional de Investigación Academia Journals Monterrey, Investigación, Educación Integral e Innovación para el Desarrollo, que fuera organizado los días 13 y 14 de marzo de 2023 por Academia Journals en colaboración con el Colegio de Educación Profesional Técnica de Nuevo León (CONALEP NL).

Approach To Problem Solving And Use Of Intuition By Engineering Technology Students, Meher R. Taleyarkhan, Anne M. Lucietto, Natalie L. F. Hobson, Therese M. Azevedo

Journal of Global Education and Research

Engineering technology students often forgo a methodical approach of solving or answering questions on assignments or exams in favor of an intuition-based approach, emphasizing educated guessing (Broberg et al., 2008). Faculty observations have noted these student solutions often provide explanations, usually sans calculations, to support answers the students believe to be reasonable when in reality deviated from the correct answer. An extensive study was developed to assess several distinctions between student intuition and use of cognition in problem solving, as related to a generalized student population. The study was comprised of a survey and interview. The survey utilized two instruments, …

Culture-Laden Extensive Reading Through Team-Based Mobile Learning: Effects On Intercultural Communicative Competence And Reading Motivation, David Imamyartha, Eka Wahjuningsih, Areta Puspa, Mutiara Bilqis, Rizki Febri Andika Hudori

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

With the advent of technology and increasing cultural diversity, language teachers in higher education are encouraged to push current pedagogical boundaries in search of the best approaches to cultural learning. This study responds to this pedagogical pursuit by experimenting with the integration of team-based mobile learning (TBML) in extensive reading classes mediated by the mobile instant messaging application Telegram. The research findings statistically demonstrate that TBML can develop EFL readers’ intercultural knowledge and understanding. The technological and socioconstructivist affordances of TBML also enhance reading motivation as a springboard for developing intercultural communicative competence (ICC). The research implications and limitations are …

The Relationship Between Explanatory Ability And Collegiate Learning Assessment Task, Monika Lintang Laksmi, Baskoro Adi Prayitno, Meti Indrowati

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The literature study discusses the relationship between explanatory ability and Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) Task. The method used is a study of the literature related to explanatory ability and CLA Task, the literature studied from 2015 to 2022. The literature study results are CLA Task with an open-ended question, problem-based situations, and problem-solving can be used as an assessment of explanatory ability that consist of indicators for justifying procedures, state result, and present explanation. The achievement of the three indicators of explanatory ability that will be empowered with CLA Task needs the help of electronic module for media learning.

Factors Influencing Students’ Academic Performance In Online Courses During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ruri Nurul Aeni Wulandari, Brillian Rosy, Novi Trisnawati, Jaka Nugraha, Fitriana Rahmawati

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aims to investigate how online learning self-efficacy, self-regulated learning, and achievement motivation affect students' academic performance in online courses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study participants were students from the Office Administration Education Study Program at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to measure the direct and indirect effects of the structural model. The results show that online learning self-efficacy positively affects self-regulated learning, achievement motivation, and academic performance. However, self-regulated learning and achievement motivation do not affect academic performance, and also do not mediate the relationship between online learning self-efficacy and academic performance.

Implementation Of Tik-Tok Learning Mediain Pugung Raharjo Local History Perpective Era 4.0, Dwi Gesti Jayanti, Zulkarnain Zulkarnain

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aims to determine the implementation of Tik-Tok-based learning in the perspective of Pugung Raharjo's local history era 4.0. The research uses descriptive qualitative research methods with a case study approach. Data collection techniques with the following steps: (1) observation, (2) in-depth interviews, (3) documentation. The results obtained are: (1) Learning Media Concepts, (2) Tik-Tok-Based Learning, (3 Local History of Pugung Raharjo Archaeological Sites, (4) Components of Skill Values in History Learning, (5) Implementation of Tik-Tok-Based Learning in Pugung Raharjo Local History Learning. The results show that the innovation of Tik-Tok-based application learning media can be used by teachers …

Development Of "Kids Learning" Educational Game As A Basic Learning Media About Geometry Materials For Kindergarten Children, Achmad Buchori, Devita Rahmania, Sharifah Osman

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of this research is to increase interest in learning for kindergarten children to recognize android-based flat shapes. This is an instructional game with both a learning and a gameplay menu. There are games on the play option such as Remembering Matches, Counting, and Guessing flat shapes using Multimedia. This study employs the Development Life Cycle (MDLC) model. The targets in this study were students of Kindergarten Mardirini Sidogemah Sayung Demak. Data processing was taken from the validation of media, materials, and user questionnaires using a Likert scale in the assessment. The results of the expert validation showed an …

Enhancing Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Scientific Literacy By Using Flipped Problem-Based Learning Integrated With E-Campus, Izzah Muyassaroh, Nur Luthfi Rizqa Herianingtyas

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aimed to enhance the elementary preservice teachers’ scientific literacy at Pelita Bangsa University by using flipped problem-based learning integrated with e-campus. This Classroom Action Research was done in three cycles and each cycle was conducted with planning, action, observation, and reflection stages. The subjects of this study were 32 preservice teachers in the elementary teacher education program of Pelita Bangsa University in the academic year 2021-2022. Instruments and data collection techniques were observation, questionnaire, and test. The result of this study showed that the implementation of flipped problem-based learning integrated with e-campus improved elementary preservice teachers’ scientific literacy.

Contribution Of E-Book Implementation To Learning Achievement In Informatics Courses In Antartika, Muhammad Afifuddin Al Islami, Rahmania Sri Untari, Fitria Nur Hasanah, Dicka Y. Kardono

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aimed to determine (1) the contribution of E-Books to Informatics class X RPL subject to student achievement at SMK Antarctica 1 Sidoarjo (2) How significant is the contribution to student achievement in Informatics class X RPL at SMK Antarctica 1 Sidoarjo after using the E-Book. This research uses a quantitative method with the type of pre-experimental design one research group pretest-posttest design to compare the results obtained from the pretest and posttest. The population used was 36 students, and the sample was taken using a saturated sampling technique, meaning that all population members were taken to be tested. …

Effects Of Remap-Tps Using Wizer.Me Website And Mindmap Application On Students’ Cognitive Learning Results, Muhammad Ilham A’Raafi, Siti Zubaidah, Munzil Munzil, Azizul Ghofur Candra Wicaksono

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aims to determine the Remap-TPS learning model assisted by the Wizer.me website and the MindMup application on students’ cognitive learning outcomes. This quasi-experimental study used a non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design. The population of this research was all students of class XI SMA Negeri 8 Malang. The research sample was class XI MIPA 3 as the experimental class and class MIPA 4 as the control class. Cognitive learning outcomes data were obtained from the results of multiple-choice tests and essays. Data were analyzed using the one-way Anacova test. Based on the results of the study, it was shown …

Academic Emotion On Efl Extensive Reading Program Across Genres, Areta Puspa

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This present study monitors the EFL students’ emotions on extensive reading program across three genres, to be precise factual text and literary text. The data are collected from questionnaire, students’ diaries, and interviews to university students in Indonesia. The close-ended questionnaire is analysed through Path analysis. Moreover, the students’ diaries and interview are analysed by content analysis. Piloting from Pekrun’s emotions, the study directs into achievement emotion, epistemic emotion, topic emotion, and social emotion. This mix method study gains the students in arranging their emotion on extensive reading program as long as three months. This study seeks to contribute to …

Utilization Of Assessment Features Inplatform Merdeka Mengajar (Pmm) In The Assessment Of Indonesian Language Learning, Firdaus Aritonang, Iqbal Syahrul Akbar Al Aziz, Sarwiji Suwandi

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The Indonesian government has launched the Merdeka Teaching Platform (PMM) application with various features that support learning activities in the independent curriculum. One of them is the student assessment feature. This study aims to determine the use of assessment features in PMM. This study used a qualitative descriptive method with interview, documentation, and observation techniques. The results of the study show that PMM has positive benefits in helping educators carry out assessments. Assessments in PMM include formative, summative, and diagnostic assessments that can be adjusted and adapted, so that PMM can be one of the solutions that educators can use …

Citizen Scientists And Artists: Integrating Arts And Technology To Teach The Effects Of Climate Change On Bird Migration, Laura Fattal Dr., Heejung An Dr.

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

Ways to incorporate climate change into K-12 curricula are of growing interest to many science educators. The International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) examines animal and bird migrations as a lens to understand climate change aiding educators with its emphasis on technological imagining in science and visual arts teaching and learning. This article presents an interdisciplinary unit pertaining to bird migration and climate change that integrates the arts and technology by placing upper-elementary students in the position of being citizen scientists and artists, leading to a culminating art installation project. The unit shows how a variety of digital …

Students Arts Participation Increases Stem Motivation Via Self-Efficacy, Stephen M. Dahlem

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

This work found that there exists a correlation between student motivation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and student participation in the arts during high school with self-efficacy being a mediator. STEM is an important component of student success from a broad, national, perspective, as well as from a domain-specific point of view. The results of this work may provide aid to teachers, parents, administrators, and even students seeking to find ways to increase student motivation and performance in the STEM subjects. Additionally, this work may be of interest to advocates of the arts. This quantitative correlational study was …

Challenge-Based Learning & Steam Curriculum, Diana Lockwood

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

STEAM education is being integrated into elementary schools as a way to engage more students in creativity, hands-on learning, and problem-based learning also referred to as Challenge-Based-Learning (CBL). This article focuses on elementary educators’ curriculum design for STEAM and presenting students with open-ended questions phrased as a challenge as a way to raise student interest and achievement (DeJarnette, 2018; Hunter-Doniger, 2018). When students received challenges to solve, they felt more open to sharing their ideas since there was more than one potential right answer (DeJarnette, 2018; Drake, 2012). When implementing CBL, teachers act as facilitators using a constructivist approach as …

Creative Learning With Music And Mathematics: Reflections On Interdisciplinary Collaborations, Graham Johnson, Alesia M. Moldavan

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

Culturally responsive content, accessible and inclusive tools, and meaningful interdisciplinary tasks can aid in developing equitable and creative learning environments. Music and mathematics are ideal disciplines for interdisciplinary creative learning. In this article, we reflect on our experiences engaging in interdisciplinary music and mathematics tasks with preservice teachers. In particular, we highlight specific efforts taken to design and implement a creative music and mathematics workshop for use in a mathematics methods course. Guided by these experiences, we offer examples of tools and practices that have helped preservice teachers collaborate, engage in inquiry, improvise, develop empathy, and take intellectual and social …

Teachers’ Contexts, Their Instruction And Math Achievement: Evidence From The 2018 Talis-Pisa Link Data, Meredith L. Wronowski, Xiaoyuan Chen

Thomas C. Hunt Building a Research Community Day

This study uses secondary data analysis of the 2018 TALIS-PISA link data combined with content analysis of policy and media artifacts to describe the relationship between teacher professionalization and working climate, self-efficacy, instruction, and mathematics achievement. In preliminary SEM models we identify three types of classroom instruction, Instruction Focused, Management Focused, and Comprehensive, based on a latent profile analysis of frequency of teacher behaviors. We also find that professionalization and working climate significantly predict teacher self-efficacy and instruction, but that instruction does not predict achievement when including school covariates. We also describe key differences in professionalization, climate, and math achievement …

Orbital Decay In The Classroom, Miguel C. N. Fiolhais, Luis Gonzalez-Urbina, Tomasz Milewski, Carlos Chaparro, Andrea Ferroglia

Publications and Research

The objective of this paper is to provide a pedagogical framework for the phenomenon of orbital decay of satellites in low Earth orbit. The dynamics of orbital decay are derived considering atmospheric drag as the only dissipative mechanism and using an educational approach suitable for undergraduate calculus-based physics and engineering courses. The resulting nonlinear first-order differential equation for the altitude as a function of time is solved numerically for the isothermal-barotropic atmospheric model with a fixed scale height. The model is validated using the uncontrolled reentry data of the Chinese space station Tiangong-1.

How Administration Stakes And Settings Affect Student Behavior And Performance On A Biology Concept Assessment, Crystal Uminski, Joanna K. Hubbard, Brian A. Couch

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Biology instructors use concept assessments in their courses to gauge student understanding of important disciplinary ideas. Instructors can choose to administer concept assessments based on participation (i.e., lower stakes) or the correctness of responses (i.e., higher stakes), and students can complete the assessment in an in-class or out-of-class setting. Different administration conditions may affect how students engage with and perform on concept assessments, thus influencing how instructors should interpret the resulting scores. Building on a validity framework, we collected data from 1578 undergraduate students over 5 years under five different administration conditions. We did not find significant differences in scores …

Comparing Boys’ And Girls’ Attitudes Toward Computer Science, Danielle Scott, Amiee Zou, Sharin Rawhiya Jacob, Debra Richardson, Mark Warschauer

Journal of Computer Science Integration

Women are severely underrepresented in computer science (CS) degrees and careers. While student interest is a key predictor of success, little is known about how elementary students from underserved groups, such as girls, develop their interest in CS. To address this issue, we examined the differences in attitudes between upper elementary girls and boys towards CS after participating in a yearlong, inquiry-based CS curriculum designed for diverse learners. Pre-and-post surveys on students’ attitudes towards CS (n = 108) were delivered before and after student participation in the curriculum. Results from the survey showed only two demonstrated significant differences between boys …

Impacting African American Student Achievement In The Middle School Stem Classroom By Teaching Mathematics Through Arts Integration And Design Thinking, Robert Lippert, Tjuannia R. Seals

Dissertations

Middle school is a transitional period in which many students experience content-specific teachers, travel between classrooms, and explore extracurricular activity options for the first time. Historically, African American middle school students have not fared well in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) on standardized assessments, performing significantly below their Caucasian counterparts in mathematics and science. From the beginning of their academic careers, a lack of access to quality teachers, excessive use of direct instruction strategies, and a lack of resources in their school communities, contribute to their overall apathy towards the subject matter and factor into their underperformance. As a …