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Scientific Practices Strand 7 Expert Panel. Scientific Practices Strand. What aspects of scientific practices are important for learners? How do we teach them? Session 1 (Mon): Expert panel Session 2 (Tues 9-12): Poster session: CCMS research on scientific practices. 1. Defining “Practice”.
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Scientific Practices Strand • What aspects of scientific practices are important for learners? • How do we teach them? • Session 1 (Mon): Expert panel • Session 2 (Tues 9-12): Poster session: CCMS research on scientific practices
1. Defining “Practice” • (a) How are you defining “scientific practice” in your design and empirical work?(b) What is the model of the specific scientific practice you are investigating? • How different from a skill? • Role of social interaction? Discourse? Epistemological understanding?
2. Pedagogical Support • What is the model of pedagogical support for the practice? What kinds of designs put this model into effect? • How motivated? Made meaningful? • How to keep it from just “doing school”? • Kinds of scaffolding?
3. Assessment • How are you defining success in engaging learners in the practice? How is it assessed in your empirical work? • How to tease apart content understanding and success in practice? • Role of epistemological understanding versus performance of the practice? • What kind of transfer is expected?
4. Challenges/Successes • What have we learned about • Challenges • How to support learners
The Panel • Philip Bell, Cognition & Technology, University of Washington • Richard Duschl, Science Education, Rutgers • Janice Gobert, Concord Consortium • Kathy Metz, Cognition & Development, University of California, Berkeley