TY - GEN
T1 - Using log files to track students' model-based inquiry
AU - Buckley, Barbara C.
AU - Gobert, Janice D.
AU - Horwitz, Paul
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We report on the Modeling Across the Curriculum Project (mac.concord.org), a 5-year study funded by the IERI program (IERI # 0115699). In this project we are using qualitative model-based tools for inquiry in three science domains (Genetics, Gas Laws, & Newtonian Mechanics) to promote scientific literacy on a broad scale, namely, content knowledge, process skills, and epistemologies of science (Perkins, 1986). The process skills we focus on in this project are model-based inquiry skills; epistemological constructs of interest here are students' epistemologies of models as a subset of epistemology of science (Gobert & Discenna, 1997; Schwartz & White, 1999). Our technological infrastructure, Pedagogica™ (Horwitz & Burke, 2002) logs all students' interactions with our hypermodels (Horwitz & Christie, 1999). We use students' log files as performance assessments of model-based inquiry on inquiry tasks called "hot spots" and track changes in inquiry skills over time both within and across domains.
AB - We report on the Modeling Across the Curriculum Project (mac.concord.org), a 5-year study funded by the IERI program (IERI # 0115699). In this project we are using qualitative model-based tools for inquiry in three science domains (Genetics, Gas Laws, & Newtonian Mechanics) to promote scientific literacy on a broad scale, namely, content knowledge, process skills, and epistemologies of science (Perkins, 1986). The process skills we focus on in this project are model-based inquiry skills; epistemological constructs of interest here are students' epistemologies of models as a subset of epistemology of science (Gobert & Discenna, 1997; Schwartz & White, 1999). Our technological infrastructure, Pedagogica™ (Horwitz & Burke, 2002) logs all students' interactions with our hypermodels (Horwitz & Christie, 1999). We use students' log files as performance assessments of model-based inquiry on inquiry tasks called "hot spots" and track changes in inquiry skills over time both within and across domains.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84884383475
SN - 0805861742
SN - 9780805861747
T3 - ICLS 2006 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings
SP - 57
EP - 63
BT - ICLS 2006 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings
T2 - 7th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2006
Y2 - 27 June 2006 through 1 July 2006
ER -