[Libri] Science Education Presentation on Model-Based Learning (and Free Lunch)

[Tom Murray]

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Science Education Presentation and **FREE LUNCH** at Hampshire College
Wednesday April 30th;  Cole Science Center room 321 -- 12:00

"Characterizing model-based learning and peer critique within an 
on-line inquiry-based unit for Plate Tectonics"

Janice Gobert, Ph.D.
The Concord Consortium

jgobert at concord.org
mtv.concord.org

Goberet will describe a large-scale study of 1100 middle and high 
school students from California and Massachusetts who collaborated 
on-line about plate tectonic activity in their respective location. The 
students participated in this curriculum using WISE, Web-based Inquiry 
Science Environment (Linn, 1998), an integrated set of software 
resources designed to engage students in rich inquiry activities.
	The curriculum engaged students in many inquiry-oriented, model-based 
activities. For example, students were scaffolded by WISE as they: a) 
drew initial models of plate tectonic phenomena in their respective 
area using WISE; b) wrote explanations of their models and shared their 
models and explanations with students on the opposite coast (east vs. 
west); c) were scaffolded to critique their peers’ models; d) revised 
their models based on this feedback; and e) discussed the differences 
between E and W coast geology in an on-line forum.
	Data analysis focussed on measuring content gains and characterizing 
the nature of students’ models and model revisions. Results suggest 
that this curriculum was successful in fostering deep content learning. 
Additionally, the task of evaluating and critiquing their peers’ models 
led to both a deeper understanding of the domain as well as fostered 
students’ epistemologies of models.

Bio:

Janice Gobert, Ph.D.  is a Cognitive Scientist and a Science Educator.  
  She completed her doctoral studies with Carl Bereiter at the 
University of Toronto, and completed a post-doc in Science Education 
with John Clement at UMAss Amherst.  Janice is Co PI on the MAC project 
and its Research Director.  She has also been PI on other NSF funded 
projects in which the focus is on Earth Science (mtv.concord.org).  Her 
particular interests are on modeling in science and the relationship of 
one's epistemology of models to science learning.



This talk is co-sponsored by the School of Natural Science and the 
School of Cognitive Science at Hampshire College.


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Tom Murray, Senior Research Fellow
Adjunct Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 559-5433 Fax:559-5438;  Adele Simmons Hall room 220
Also: Adjunct Faculty, University of Massachusetts
tmurray at hampshire.edu  http://helios.hampshire.edu/~tjmCCS/
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