Samuel Nyarko

STEM Education Innovation & Research Institute

Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

Samuel C. Nyarko is currently a Postdoc researcher with the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute at IUPUI. His research interests include collaborative and experiential learning practices such as teamwork and fieldwork , geoscience workforce development, students' conceptions, instruction and instructional design, DEI, and evaluation. Sammy is also a geoscientist interested in ore modeling and evaluation, and mineral exploration. Sammy is a constructivist and believes that diversity in knowledge creation is the closest we can go to achieve accurate knowledge, hence diverse and inclusive learning practices are priorities.   

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Case Studies and Discourse Analysis in Qualitative Geoscience Education Research part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Morning Workshops:Qualitative Methods and Designs in Geoscience Education Research
The goal of this workshop is to identify the types of research problems/questions that can be answered within qualitative education research frameworks. The primary focus will be on evaluating how decisions are ...

Fostering Students' Soft Skills Development Through Explicit Teaching part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Round Table Discussions
The Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education and Geoscience employers have increasingly called for student competency in three sets of skills: technical, field and soft skills. Geoscience teachers already do a ...

Featured Stories in Diversity: Personal narratives of overcoming obstacles to inclusion and implications for the Geosciences part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program
Join your fellow Geoscientists as we debut the NAGT Diversity Stories. This is a collection of lived experiences and lessons learned from within our community relating to the broad themes of diversity, equity, and ...