Sense of Place and Place-Based Introductory Geoscience Teaching for American Indian and Alaska Native Undergraduates part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Steven Semken
A student's "sense of place" incorporates their affective as well as cognitive responses to physical places. Students with strong cultural bonds to homelands, many of whom are ...

Factors That Influence Learning during a Scientific Field Trip in a Natural Environment part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Nir Orion, Avi Hofstein
Reports on the findings of a study designed to investigate factors that influence the educational effectiveness of field trips for students. The objective was to identify factors that influence a ...

Quasi-experimentation: Design and analysis issues for field settings part of SERC Print Resource Collection
T.D. Cook, D.T. Campbell

Geoscience learning research in UK higher education part of SERC Print Resource Collection
H.L. King
This paper discusses changes in the higher education system in the UK in the early 21st century and describes new efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of fieldwork in geoscience education.

The art and science of mapping: computing geological categories from field data part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Boyan Broderic, Mark Gahegan, Rob Harrap

Geologic Mapping--Where the Rubber Meets the Road part of SERC Print Resource Collection
W. G. Ernst

Integrating undergraduate education and scientific discovery through field research in igneous petrology part of SERC Print Resource Collection
David Gonzales, Steven Semken
We recast a standard igneous petrology course at Fort Lewis College into a field-based, inquiry-driven research course focused on a specific field area, in this case the Tertiary volcanic complex at ...

Pointing as Situated Practice part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Charles Goodwin

Teachers doing science: An authentic geology research experience for teachers part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Deb Hemler, Tom Repine

Use of a virtual environment in the Geowall to increase student confidence and perfomrance during field mapping: An example from an introductory-level field class part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Michael M. Kelly, Nancy R. Riggs
Geology students often have difficulty learning the baseline terrain-analysis skills required for success in introductory field geology. Students in the Introductory Field Methods class at Northern ...