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McLaughlin, Jessica A.; Lombardi, Doug; Davatzes, Alexandra; Shipley, Thomas F.; Holzer, Margaret A.; Hopkins, Jenelle D.; Jaeger, Allison J. – Science Teacher, 2018
Understanding the spatial nature of the world is necessary in everyday life. Not only do people move about in 3D space, but spatial thinking is also important in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This may be especially true in the geosciences, where learners often encounter unique spatial reasoning…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, STEM Education, Earth Science, Visualization
Wilson, Cristina G.; Qian, Feifei; Jerolmack, Douglas J.; Roberts, Sonia; Ham, Jonathan; Koditschek, Daniel; Shipley, Thomas F. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
How do scientists generate and weight candidate queries for hypothesis testing, and how does learning from observations or experimental data impact query selection? Field sciences offer a compelling context to ask these questions because query selection and adaptation involves consideration of the spatiotemporal arrangement of data, and therefore…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Data Collection, Information Seeking, Decision Making
Cheek, Kim A.; LaDue, Nicole D.; Shipley, Thomas F. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
Geoscientists analyze and integrate spatial and temporal information at a range of scales to understand Earth processes. Despite this, the concept of scale is ill defined and taught unevenly across the K-16 continuum. This literature review focuses on two meanings of scale: one as the magnitude of the extent of a dimension and the other as a…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Spatial Ability, Time, Scientific Concepts
Bateman, Kathryn M.; Wilson, Cristina G.; Williams, Randolph T.; Tikoff, Basil; Shipley, Thomas F. – Science & Education, 2022
Understanding and communicating uncertainty is a key skill needed in the practice of science. However, there has been little research on the instruction of uncertainty in undergraduate science education. Our team designed a module within an online geoscience field course which focused on explicit instruction around uncertainty and provided…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Earth Science
Shipley, Thomas F.; Tikoff, Basil – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
This manuscript addresses the potential role of geoscience education research in understanding geoscience expert practice. We note the similarity between the perception-action framework of Ulric Neisser (Neisser, 1976) and the observation-prediction framework used by geoscience practitioners. The consilience between these two approaches is that…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Cognitive Science, Models, Science Instruction
LaDue, Nicole D.; Shipley, Thomas F. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2018
Geoscience instructors depend upon photos, diagrams, and other visualizations to depict geologic structures and processes that occur over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. This proof-of-concept study tests click-on-diagram (COD) questions, administered using a classroom response system (CRS), as a research tool for identifying spatial…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Visual Aids, Earth Science, Spatial Ability
Resnick, Ilyse; Davatzes, Alexandra; Newcombe, Nora S.; Shipley, Thomas F. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Understanding and reasoning about phenomena at scales outside human perception (for example, geologic time) is critical across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Thus, devising strong methods to support acquisition of reasoning at such scales is an important goal in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. In…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Logical Thinking, Time
Jaeger, Allison J.; Shipley, Thomas F.; Reynolds, Stephen J. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
Working memory is a cognitive system that allows for the simultaneous storage and processing of active information. While working memory has been implicated as an important element for success in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, its specific role in geoscience learning is not fully understood. The major goal of…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Earth Science
Kastens, Kim A.; Shipley, Thomas F.; Boone, Alexander P.; Straccia, Frances – Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education, 2016
This study examines how geoscience experts and novices make meaning from an iconic type of data visualization: shaded relief images of bathymetry and topography. Participants examined, described, and interpreted a global image, two high-resolution seafloor images, and 2 high-resolution continental images, while having their gaze direction…
Descriptors: Expertise, Novices, Earth Science, Visual Aids
Resnick, Ilyse; Kastens, Kim A.; Shipley, Thomas F. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
This study identifies a population of students who have an intermediate amount of relevant content knowledge and skill for working with data, and characterizes their approach to interpreting a challenging data-based visualization. Thirty-three undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory environmental science course reasoned about salinity…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Visual Aids, Data Interpretation, Undergraduate Students
Myer, Rachel A.; Shipley, Thomas F.; Davatzes, Alexandra K. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
The ability to accurately reason using three-dimensional visualizations is vital to success in STEM disciplines, particularly the geosciences. One impediment to learning from visualizations is spatially-based misconceptions. Such errors can arise from a range of sources (e.g., prior beliefs, inaccurate application of analogy, and visual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Scientific Concepts, STEM Education, Misconceptions