FALCoN with Melissa McCartney about "Primary Scientific Literature in the Classroom: a great idea in theory but how do we assess student learning?"
Start time
April 08, 2022 12:00 PM
End time
April 08, 2022 01:00 PM
Presented By
Summer Institute for Scientific Teaching
Location
Online
Workshop Worth
3
Workshop Link
Description
** This activity is 3 points total with a *required* reflection.
This Friday April 8th, join a conversation with Melissa McCartney about "Primary Scientific Literature in the Classroom: a great idea in theory but how do we assess student learning?"
A growing body of literature shows that Primary Scientific Literature (PSL) is a valuable and useful tool for STEM education. However, several barriers to including more PSL in classrooms exist, including the lack of validated assessment tools that specifically measure learning gains from student engagement with PSL. Most often, individual instructors design assessments to measure specific content students may have learned while reading PSL, resulting in new assessments being written for each piece of PSL used in class. While content assessment is important in its own right, these types of assessments do little to help us understand if students are learning how to engage in the scientific practice of reading PSL. This session will introduce two novel and “universal” PSL assessment tools that can be used with any piece of PSL in any scientific discipline and will discuss best-practices for bringing PSL into the classroom.
This Friday April 8th, join a conversation with Melissa McCartney about "Primary Scientific Literature in the Classroom: a great idea in theory but how do we assess student learning?"
A growing body of literature shows that Primary Scientific Literature (PSL) is a valuable and useful tool for STEM education. However, several barriers to including more PSL in classrooms exist, including the lack of validated assessment tools that specifically measure learning gains from student engagement with PSL. Most often, individual instructors design assessments to measure specific content students may have learned while reading PSL, resulting in new assessments being written for each piece of PSL used in class. While content assessment is important in its own right, these types of assessments do little to help us understand if students are learning how to engage in the scientific practice of reading PSL. This session will introduce two novel and “universal” PSL assessment tools that can be used with any piece of PSL in any scientific discipline and will discuss best-practices for bringing PSL into the classroom.
Sit down with other engaged colleagues on Zoom. Based on research by the Summer Institutes, supports are three times more important than barriers in implementing Scientific Teaching in classrooms. Join us for support with the National Institute on Scientific Teaching, formerly the Summer Institutes (Bathgate et al., 2019a, 2019b).
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