[Viz] Cutting Edge Workshop-Observing and Assessing

[Cathy Manduca]

Greetings-
We would like to draw your attention to the following opportunity offered
through the NAGT program, On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for 
Geoscience Faculty.  If you know others who would be interested, please 
forward this message to them.  Please note the application deadline of 
March 1.

Cathy Manduca

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Understanding What Our Geoscience Students Are Learning: Observing and
Assessing May 12-14, 2005, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 1, 2005

This workshop will bring together leaders in geoscience education,
education, and disciplinary education research to consider how we can move
forward together in enabling better assessment and observation of student
learning in the geosciences. In particular, workshop participants will take
steps to

    * Facilitate the development and use of good assessments across the
range of teaching methods in the geosciences.
* Enable better observation and documentation of student learning in the 
geosciences for the purposes of teaching and assessment.
* Further the contributions of geoscience to research on teaching and 
learning by           		  	 	
	-generalizing the results from geoscience classroom observations 
		
	-designing valid educational research to execute in geoscience classrooms 

	-working collectively across geoscience classrooms to collect critical 
data on geoscience learning

The program will include discussions of issues such as goals setting, the
use of formative and summative assessments, use of new technologies, and
potential research projects bringing together geoscientists and educators.

A fundamental outcome of the workshop will be a website including

    * a collection of assessment techniques with geosciences examples
    * information on desiging observations and experiments
    * examples of research on learning taking place in geoscience classrooms


This workshop is one of the 2004/2005 emerging themes offerings that are
designed to move critical ideas and concepts into the main-stream of
geoscience education. Participants are sought who are leaders in observing
and assessing learning and are committed to participating in follow-on
activities.


For more information about the workshop and/or to complete the on-line
application form, please go to:

<http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/assess05/index.html>


This workshop is part of the On the Cutting Edge professional development
program for current and future geoscience faculty, supported by the
National Association of Geoscience Teachers with funding provided by a
grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Undergraduate
Education. We are part of the Digital Library for Earth System Education
(DLESE).  On-site workshop expenses for participants will be covered by the
grant.  Information about the workshop program is available at:

<http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/>

Cathryn A. Manduca
Director, Science Education Resource Center
Carleton College
Northfield, MN  55057
507 646-7096
cmanduca at carleton.edu
serc.carleton.edu





Dr. Cathryn A. Manduca
Director, Science Education Resource Center
Carleton College
Northfield, MN  55057
507 646-7096
cmanduca at carleton.edu
serc.carleton.edu

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Dr. Cathryn A. Manduca
Director, Science Education Resource Center
Carleton College
Northfield, MN  55057
507 646-7096
cmanduca at carleton.edu
serc.carleton.edu