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Initial Publication Date: March 16, 2015

SERC has an extensive portfolio of projects that have been created, developed, and implemented in collaboration with many partners. Learn more about many of our current and past projects using the browse below.

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Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind

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Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind: Focuses on developing students' ability to think and act with disciplinary expertise. This encompasses concepts like systems thinking, quantitative reasoning, field-based learning, spatial and temporal thinking, data visualization and manipulation.

Education Research: A focus on facilitating or conducting research on what works in the STEM classroom across a variety of levels and contexts. Project foci include student assessment, spatial reasoning, teaching and learning practices, influence of professional development, influence of open education internet resources, influence of Communities of Practice, and levers of change in higher education.

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Spatial Thinking Workbook
The Spatial Thinking Workbook project is focused on improving spatial skills in upper-division undergraduate geoscience courses. SERC was involved in the leadership of this project and the development of its teaching activities and spatial learning assessments.

Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Spatial and Temporal Thinking
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Evaluation, Education Research, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Community Building/Organization, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Project Management/Implementation, Content Expertise:Geoscience, Website Hosting and Development

GET Spatial Learning
The Geoscience Education Transdisciplinary Spatial Learning Network aims to develop educational tools that can help students, across classroom and field settings, to better understand and build upon historically difficult geoscience concepts.

Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Spatial and Temporal Thinking
SERC Role: Community Building/Organization, Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development, Education Research

Quantitative Social Science Digital Library Pathway

This project was funded as part of the National Science Foundation digital libraries pathways. It sought to better understand how social science faculty addressed quantitative skills in undergraduate courses and then how to promote teaching and learning of quantitative skills through digital resources. SERC was involved in this project as the primary evaluator and conducted a mixed method study aimed at understanding how social science faculty use digital resources to support teaching situations that involve data analysis and skills related to quantitative literacy. Findings from a national survey that included over 1,000 social science faculty respondents and a follow on interview study with 27 faculty informed the selection and cataloguing of over 600 resources in the digital library hosted by Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan (ICPSR). The project also developed pedagogic modules that addressed teaching quantitative skills that were included in the SERC pedagogy in action project.

Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind, Quantitative Skills, Working with Data
SERC Role: Evaluation, Education Research

Pedagogy in Action
This pedagogic service capitalizes on the successful model of the Starting Point: Teaching Entry-Level Geosciences portal by allowing institutions and digital libraries partners to integrate information about effective pedagogy into their websites. Learn about the what, why, and how to implement more than 30 effective pedagogies, each of which is paired with a collection of ready-to-use activities. SERC has partnered with collaborators across disciplines to create a multi-disciplinary collection.

Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Website Hosting and Development, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Professional Development, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Education Research, Materials Development/Review