References

Role-Playing Replaces Spreadsheets in College Accounting Courses part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This January 1997 Chronicle of Higher Education article discusses the use of role-playing in accounting classes. The article chronicles accounting students at University of Illinois while they tackle ...

Situated cognition and the culture of learning part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The authors challenge the common notion that what is learned and how it is learned and used are separate. The activity in which knowledge is developed and deployed is not separable from or ancillary ...

Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This report summarizes discussions of how research on learning could be used to improve learning in the geosciences that were held in July 2002 at the Johnson Foudnation's Wingspread Conference ...

A typology of models for plate tectonics: Inferential power and barriers to understanding part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Abstract: Forty-seven fifth grade students (40 group-tested and 7 individually interviewed) read a text describing plate tectonics. At four points they drew diagrams of the spatial, causal, and ...

Learning-for-Use: A Framework for the Design of Technology-Supported Inquiry Activities part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article discusses a way to integrate the teaching of content with the teaching of process, which have in the past been seen as competing priorities. The author explores technology-supported ...

Effects of Student-Generated Diagrams versus Student-Generated Summaries on Conceptual Understanding of Causal and Dynamic Knowledge in Plate Tectonics part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article examines the beneficial effects of student-generated diagrams versus student-generated summaries on conceptual understanding on the topic of plate tectonics. A group of fifth grade ...

Science and Earth History: the Evolution/Creation Controversy part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This is basically an earth science textbook written to refute creation science arguments. For each topic (such as cosmology and astronomy or stratigraphy and the fossil record), he has chapters ...

Disciplinary Research Strategies for Assessment of Learning part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article from BioScience discusses the uses of systematic strategies derived from discipline-based science research to design problems to assess students' understanding of the carbon cycle in two ...

Research Methodologies in Science Education - Assessing Students' Alternative Conceptions part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article in the Journal of Geoscience Education explores what some of the barriers are to achieving a higher level of student understanding in the geosciences. It discusses instructional ...

Qualitative Analysis of College Students' Ideas about the Earth: Interviews and Open-Ended Questions part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article in the Journal of Geoscience Education discusses alternative conceptions held by college students about the geosciences. Data were collected from students enrolled in introductory level ...