Site Guide: Research on Teaching and Learning
Bringing Research and Learning to the Geosciences - This site brings together resources for faculty, teachers and curriculum developers working in the geosciences. The contents of the site aim specifically to
raise faculty awareness of advances in the science of teaching and learning and include essays from researchers, websites, recommended reading lists.
Synthesis of Research on Thinking and Learning in the Geosciences - This project
synthesized existing knowledge and articulate unanswered questions in critical areas of
research on cognition and learning relevant to the Geosciences. Geosciences encompass the study of the oceans, atmosphere, and solid earth, plus interactions between these physical systems and living systems. Within the domain of geoscience learning, our study will focus on four themes: geologic time, complex Earth systems, spatial thinking in the geosciences, and field-based learning.
Earth and Mind blog - This blog explores ideas, questions, discoveries and controversies related to how people think and learn about the Earth and environment.
The Affective Domain in Teaching - The affective domain includes factors such as student motivation, attitudes, perceptions and values. Teachers can increase their effectiveness by considering the affective domain in planning courses, delivering lectures and activities, and assessing student learning. This series of pages provides background information about the affective domain, a literature review, information about motivating students, self-efficacy, immediacy, and teaching controversial topics, as well as a collection of assessment tools and activities that utilize the affective domain.
The Role of Metacognition in Teaching Geoscience - Metacognition is a critically important, yet often overlooked component of learning. Effective learning involves planning and goal-setting, monitoring one's progress, and adapting as needed. All of these activities are metacognitive in nature. By teaching students these skills - all of which can be learned - we can improve student learning. This series of pages offers information about how to teach metacognition as well as a collection of activities and links that incorporate metacognition into the classroom.
Best Practices from Education and Cognitive Science Research - From Cutting Edge Teaching with Visualizations, this page offers resources and information regarding how to use visualizations effectively in the classroom.
Pedagogic and Assessment Resources
Pedagogy in Action - The Pedagogy in Action module project page is host to a collection of materials that can be used to learn about research on learning. These include collections of pages that feature different
teaching methods that can be used in the classroom along with how they can be used and examples, a collection of
activities, and a
research on learning bibliography which includes both web and print resources.
Site Guide on Assessment
Assessment. This site guide provides pointers to resources that you can use to assess your students, courses, and programs or departments.
