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View article: Making departments diverse, equitable, and inclusive: Engaging colleagues in departmental transformation through discussion groups committed to action
Making departments diverse, equitable, and inclusive: Engaging colleagues in departmental transformation through discussion groups committed to action Open
The geosciences have a pervasive, persistent, and deeply troubling lack of diversity, despite the availability of a suite of well-documented, research-based strategies for broadening participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,…
View article: Spatial skills in undergraduate students—Influence of gender, motivation, academic training, and childhood play
Spatial skills in undergraduate students—Influence of gender, motivation, academic training, and childhood play Open
Spatial reasoning is critical for success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and particularly for geoscience. To evaluate capabilities among U.S. students, we assessed spatial reasoning skills in 345 in…
View article: Promoting Sketching in Introductory Geoscience Courses: CogSketch Geoscience Worksheets
Promoting Sketching in Introductory Geoscience Courses: CogSketch Geoscience Worksheets Open
Research from cognitive science and geoscience education has shown that sketching can improve spatial thinking skills and facilitate solving spatially complex problems. Yet sketching is rarely implemented in introductory geosciences course…
View article: THE INVENTORY OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND THE INVENTORY OF GEOSCIENCE DEPARTMENT AND PROGRAM PRACTICES: TWO NEW INSTRUMENTS IN DEVELOPMENT FROM THE SAGE 2YC PROJECT
THE INVENTORY OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND THE INVENTORY OF GEOSCIENCE DEPARTMENT AND PROGRAM PRACTICES: TWO NEW INSTRUMENTS IN DEVELOPMENT FROM THE SAGE 2YC PROJECT Open
Purpose of the InventoriesThe purpose of each inventory is two-fold: to assist geoscience educators in self-assessing their educational practices, and to provide a list of evidencebased practices for supporting the academic success of all …
View article: Comprehending 3D Diagrams: Sketching to Support Spatial Reasoning
Comprehending 3D Diagrams: Sketching to Support Spatial Reasoning Open
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ( STEM ) disciplines commonly illustrate 3D relationships in diagrams, yet these are often challenging for students. Failing to understand diagrams can hinder success in STEM because scient…
View article: 3-D Structural Interpretation
3-D Structural Interpretation Open
Three-dimensional geologic interpretation of surface and subsurface data requires integration and application of both geologic knowledge and spatial cognitive skills. Much surface geologic mapping still employs pen and paper techniques, bu…
View article: PIXELS: COMPARING CLASSROOM-BASED AND FIELD-BASED LEARNING TO INVESTIGATE STUDENTS’ CONCEPTS OF PIXELS AND SENSE OF SCALE
PIXELS: COMPARING CLASSROOM-BASED AND FIELD-BASED LEARNING TO INVESTIGATE STUDENTS’ CONCEPTS OF PIXELS AND SENSE OF SCALE Open
Spatial thinking is critical to success in the geosciences (fieldwork, visualizing subsurface structures, finding rotation axes in minterals, etc.).• Scale is also an important concept (see work by K. Cheek, R. Trend, and others).• Sense o…
View article: The Lay of the Land: Sensing and Representing Topography
The Lay of the Land: Sensing and Representing Topography Open
Navigating, and studying spatial navigation, is difficult enough in two dimensions when maps and terrains are flat. Here we consider the capacity for human spatial navigation on sloped terrains, and how sloping terrain is depicted in 2D ma…