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EOS-SEI: Research Activities
NEW Sept. 2011: 56-item list of research communications since 2007, including publications, presentations/posters and workshops. >>See Table below of projects and contacts<<
How does Geoscience Education Research emerge in a Department? Here are thoughts presented at AGU December 2009, and correspondig references.
Six presentations/posters at GSA, Minneapolis, October 2011:
- Gilley, Brett, “What Do You See? Using Video For Pre/Post Assessment Of Interactive Engagement”,
- Harris, Sara, “Effective Interventions: Helping Low Performers Learn How To Learn”,
- Harris, Sara and Gilley, Brett, “ ‘Invention’ Activities In An Introductory Lab: Minerals, Rocks, Biodiversity, And Earthquakes”,
- Jolley, Alison, Jones, Francis, Harris, Sara, and Rhajiak, Jamil, “Correlating Knowledge Of Landscape Formation Timescales And Geologic Time Using A New Validated Concept Test”,
- Jones, Francis, Johnson, Catherine, “Assessing The Impacts Of A Highly Interactive Planetary Science Elective Course For Senior Science Students”,
- Petcovic, Heather L., Caulkins, Joshua L., and Stokes, Alison, “Geologists' Perceptions Of The Value Of Field Camp”,
- Eleven posters presented at the CWSEI End of Year event, April 2010.
- Thirteen posters presented at the CWSEI End of Year event, April 2009.
Concept Inventories:
- Jamil Rhajiak, Understanding Geological Time: A Proposed Assessment Mechanism for Beginner and Advanced Geology Students at UBC, Ugrad Honors Thesis, 2009.
- Alison Jolley, Measuring Knowledge & Confidence of Landscape Identification & Formation, Ugrad Honors Thesis, 2010,
- Carrie Wong, Performance on the Geologic Spatial Visualization Survey: A Comparison Between Junior and Senior Undergraduate students, Ugrad Honors Thesis, 2011.
- Alison Jolley, Mineralogy and Petrology, see EOS-SEI Times edition 4.2.
Projects and principle contact people
| Studies (See Overview for regular EOS-SEI projects) |
Contact | U.Grad. | Start date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SAESS - Student Attitudes about Earth and Ocean Sciences Survey - Details | E.Lane | A.Jolley | Feb07 |
| 2 | Design and Use of Midterm and End-of-term Student Opinion Surveys - Details | F.Jones | Sep07 | |
| 3 | Group Decisions During EOSC111 Quizzes. See also Using Collaborative Group Exams below. | S.Harris | S.Henderson | Jan08 |
| 4 | Pre-Post Assessments of Learning in EOSC111 - Poster | B.Gilley, S.Harris |
Jan08 | |
| 5 | Graduate Student Teaching Training - Details. | B.Gilley | Apr08 | |
| 6 | Database of Exam Questions and Response Metrics - Details | F Jones | S.Henderson E.Sheffer |
May09 |
| 7 | Measuring and promoting "Scientific Thinking" Skills at the second year level - Details. The most resent update is June. 2011. | F.Jones M.Jellinek M.Bostock |
Aug08 | |
| 8 | Undergraduate honors geoscience thesis: Understanding Geological Time: A Proposed Assessment Mechanism for Beginner and Advanced Geology Students at UBC. - U.G. Thesis | S.Harris, F.Jones |
J.Rhajiak | Aug08 |
| 9 | Classroom Observation of Student Engagement: a Protocol and Implications - Details | E.Lane | Sep08 | |
| 10 | Do Critical Incidence Questionaires Promote Metacognition? - Details | S.Harris, D.Steyn, F.Jones |
K.Smet S.Henderson |
Oct08 |
| 11 | EOS Exit Survey: Views of Graduating EOS Students. - Initial Results, Sept 09. | J.Caulkins | Jan09 | |
| 12 | “What do you see?” Using Video to Assess Expertise | B.Gilley | Feb09 | |
| 13 | Effects of Multiple Instructors - Details | S.Harris, F.Jones |
S.Henderson | May09 |
| 14 | PeerWise: Student Contribution & Evaluation of Questioning (with University of Auckland) in eosc372, 210, 114 in collaboration with lead instructors of these courses. | B.Gilley E.Lane |
Jul09 | |
| 15 | Undergraduate honors geoscience thesis: Measuring Knowledge & Confidence of Landscape Identification & Formation - Details. See UBC's CIRCLE Information Repository for the complete U.G. Thesis. | S.Harris, F.Jones |
A.Jolley | Aug09 |
| 16 | Survey of Hiring Practices in Geoscience Industries. Final report at cIRcle: UBC's Digital Repository. Available at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/37246 | F. Jones, J. Caulkins |
Kerry Ko D. Tompkins |
Oct09 |
| 17 | Interventions targting the lowest performing students (with L. Deslauriers (physics), and
C. Wieman) Presentation: "Bringing the Bottom Up: An Intervention that Worked" (A publication is in preparation.) |
S. Harris, E. Lane, |
Sept09 | |
| 18 | How much time do students spend on coursework outside of class? How much time SHOULD they spend? Summary presentation. See also the two page EOS-SEI Times, V3, #4. |
S. Harris | Sept09 | |
| 19 | Using Collaborative Group Exams. Summary and Poster. |
B. Gilley L.Deslauriers R. Mindel S. Harris |
A.Jolley S.Henderson |
Jun10 |
| 20 | Study on expert and novice mapping behavior conducted at Oliver Field School. Poster at GSA 2010, Presentation at AGU 2010 | J. Caulkins | May10 | |
| 21 | Undergraduate honors geoscience thesis: Performance on the Geologic Spatial Visualization Survey: A Comparison Between Junior and Senior Undergraduate students, Carrie Wong. Completed April 2011. See UBC's cIRcle repository. | J.Caulkins S.Harris |
Carrie Wong | Aug10 |
| 22 | Concept tests for tracking the progression of student abilities in mineralogy and petrology. Times edition 4.2. | S.Harris | A.Jolley | Sept10 |
