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Description:: The goal of science education is to prepare students to make decisions about the complicated socioscientific issues that are an inescapable part of modern life, from personal medical decisions to evaluating a political candidate's environmental platform. We cannot expect adults to maintain a deep conceptual understanding of the current state...
Keyword:: media literacy, epistemology, science journalism, science education, and assessment
Subject:: Learning Sciences
Creator:: Brandy Liane Evans Buckingham
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/09/2019
Date Modified:: 01/09/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Makerspaces have become explosively popular in recent years. Many believe they hold promise as contexts for integrated STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) learning, meta-disciplinary skill learning, and promoting interest and equity in STEAM. However, we still know relatively about what is actually learned in these spaces, how interest...
Keyword:: Cross-context learning, 21st century skills, Interest, Makerspaces, Spatial thinking, and STEAM
Subject:: Learning Sciences
Creator:: Kay Ellen Ramey
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/16/2018
Date Modified:: 10/16/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: In this dissertation, I explored the pedagogical content knowledge of in-service high school educators recently assigned to teach computer science for the first time. Teachers were participating in a professional development program where they co-taught introductory computing classes with tech industry professionals. The study was motivated by three questions: (1)...
Keyword:: Computer Science
Subject:: Learning Sciences
Creator:: Aleata Hubbard
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/09/2018
Date Modified:: 10/09/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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