Casey Davenport

Exploring the Contributions of Course Materials to the Growth of Spatial Thinking Skills in Meteorology Majors part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2026:Program:Poster Session:Tuesday Poster Session
Spatial thinking skills are fundamental to the success of students in many geoscience disciplines, including meteorology, which inherently requires the application of spatial reasoning to accurately interpret, ...

Characterizing Case Study Teaching in Undergraduate Atmospheric Science Courses part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2026:Program:Oral Sessions:Monday Oral Session
Decades of research have demonstrated that student retention, engagement, and learning are enhanced through implementation of active learning strategies in the classroom. There are an increasing number of studies ...

Characterizing the Growth in Spatial Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Meteorology Students Across the Curriculum part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Oral Sessions:Monday Oral Session A
Spatial thinking skills are essential to student success in disciplines such as geology, atmospheric science, and geography. Previous work on spatial thinking in the atmospheric sciences has demonstrated that ...

The Wisdom of the Crowd: Supporting a Highly Collaborative Classroom Environment in Atmospheric Dynamics to Enhance Student Understanding part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Poster Sessions:Monday Poster Session
The atmospheric dynamics course sequence represents a substantial hurdle for many undergraduate students majoring in meteorology due to the necessarily application of physics and complex mathematical theory towards ...

Characterizing the Growth in Spatial Thinking Abilities in Meteorology Students Across the Curriculum part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday Poster Session
Spatial thinking skills are essential to student success in disciplines such as geology, atmospheric science, and geography. In particular, previous work on spatial thinking in the atmospheric sciences has ...

Quantifying Spatial Thinking Abilities in Meteorology Students Across the Curriculum part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday Poster Session
Spatial thinking skills are essential to student success in disciplines such as geology, atmospheric science, and geography. In atmospheric science, skills such as mental animation, disembedding, and perspective ...

The State of Active Learning in the Atmospheric Sciences: Strategies Instructors Use and Directions for Future Research part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Oral Sessions:Oral Session VI
Extensive research within STEM fields has demonstrated that active learning leads to greater educational success for students relative to traditional lecture methods. While studies have explored active learning ...

Incorporating Pair Programming in a Meteorological Computer Applications Course part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Poster Sessions:Wednesday:Poster Session I
In addition to the extensive topical content requirements in a bachelor of science degree in atmospheric science, one of the key skills and competencies that the American Meteorological Society recommends for ...

Designing Activities to Engage Students and Enhance Learning in Quantitatively Challenging Geoscience Content part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2026:Program:Morning Workshops:Designing Activities to Engage Students and Enhance Learning in Quantitatively Challenging Geoscience Content
Across the geosciences, math is used to represent physical processes within the Earth system. However, students routinely struggle to make connections between equations and real-world applications; this is often a ...

Designing Activities to Engage Students and Enhance Learning in Mathematically-Intensive Geoscience Courses part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Morning Workshops:Designing Activities to Engage Students and Enhance Learning in Mathematically-Intensive Geoscience Courses
Across the geosciences, math is used to represent physical processes within the Earth system. However, students routinely struggle to make connections between equations and real-world applications. In this ...

Designing Student-Centered Activities to Increase Engagement and Learning within Atmospheric Dynamics Courses part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Morning Workshops:Designing Student-Centered Activities to Increase Engagement and Learning within Atmospheric Dynamics Courses
The goal of this 2-day workshop is to provide participants an opportunity to develop their own hands-on, student-centered (i.e., active learning) dynamics activity that participants can then readily use within ...

Poster Session I: The Undergraduate Classroom and Lab Courses part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Poster Sessions:Wednesday:Poster Session I
This poster session will be held from 11:15-11:45am PT / 12:15-12:45pm MT / 1:15-1:45pm CT / 2:15-2:45pm ET on Wednesday. All Rendezvous participants are invited to attend. Sessions will include 4-6 posters on ...