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Bailey, Janelle M.; Prather, Edward E.; Johnson, Bruce; Slater, Timothy F. – Astronomy Education Review, 2009
This study (Note 1) investigated the beliefs about stars that students hold when they enter an undergraduate introductory astronomy course for nonscience majors. Students' preinstructional ideas were investigated through the use of several student-supplied-response (SSR) surveys, which asked students to describe their ideas about topics such as…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Science Instruction, Astronomy, Undergraduate Students
Agan, Lori – Astronomy Education Review, 2004
In this study, high school and first-year undergraduate students were asked about their understanding of stars. The hypothesis guiding this research posits that high school students who have taken a semester-long astronomy course will have an understanding of stars most related to scientific knowledge, compared with high school students enrolled…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Undergraduate Students, High School Students, Science Education
Wallace, Colin S.; Bailey, Janelle M. – Astronomy Education Review, 2010
Although concept inventories are among the most frequently used tools in the physics and astronomy education communities, they are rarely evaluated using item response theory (IRT). When IRT models fit the data, they offer sample-independent estimates of item and person parameters. IRT may also provide a way to measure students' learning gains…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Item Response Theory
Rudolph, Alexander L. – Astronomy Education Review, 2013
The increasing use of interactive learning [IL] strategies in Astro 101 classrooms has led some instructors to consider the usefulness of a textbook in such classes. These strategies provide students a learning modality very different from the traditional lecture supplemented by reading a textbook and homework and raise the question of whether the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Astronomy, Textbooks, Teaching Methods