HR: 0800h
AN: ED31C-1224    [Abstracts]
TI: Inquiring with Geoscience Datasets: Instruction and Assessment
AU: * Zalles, D
EM: daniel.zalles@sri.com
AF: SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025 United States
AU: Quellmalz, E
EM: edys.quellmalz@sri.com
AF: SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025 United States
AU: Gobert, J
EM: jgobert@ concord.org
AF: Concord Consortium, 10 Concord Crossing, Suite 300, Concord, MA 01742 United States
AB: This session will describe a new NSF-funded project in Geoscience education, Inquiring with Geoscience Data Sets. The goals of the project are to (1) Study the impacts on student learning of Web-based supplementary curriculum modules that engage secondary-level students in inquiry projects addressing important geoscience problems using an Earth System Science approach. Students will use technologies to access real data sets in the geosciences and to interpret, analyze, and communicate findings based on the data sets. The standards addressed will include geoscience concepts, inquiry abilities in NSES and Benchmarks for Science Literacy, data literacy, NCTM standards, and 21st-century skills and technology proficiencies (NETTS/ISTE). (2) Develop design principles, specification templates, and prototype exemplars for technology-based performance assessments that provide evidence of students' geoscientific knowledge and inquiry skills (including data literacy skills) and students' ability to access, use, analyze, and interpret technology-based geoscience data sets. (3) Develop scenarios based on the specification templates that describe curriculum modules and performance assessments that could be developed for other Earth Science standards and curriculum programs. Also to be described in the session are the project's efforts to differentiate among the dimensions of data literacy and scientific inquiry that are relevant for the geoscience discplines, and how recognition and awareness of the differences can be effectively channelled for the betterment of geoscience education.
UR: http://ctl.sri.com
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0840 Evaluation and assessment
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005