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Laura Rosales-Lagarde & Bre Tavernini

Science and You assignment : Using the search for evidence behind personal decisions as a parallel to the scientific method. Laura Rosales-Lagarde & Bre Tavernini

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Laura Rosales-Lagarde & Bre Tavernini

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  1. Science and You assignment: Using the search for evidence behind personal decisions as a parallel to the scientific method Laura Rosales-Lagarde & Bre Tavernini Thursday A: 2:45pm, Humphries:203- TSU (Supporting Student Learning, - Earth Educators Rendezvous,Nashville, Tennessee - July 18, 2019 Nevada State Student Alliance

  2. What are the steps followed through the scientific method? What steps do you follow when you make a decision?

  3. Are there any similarities?

  4. Scientific method Decision making

  5. The assignment was piloted in: Two Exploring Planet Earth sections (GEOL-101)** • WIC, Writing Intensive Course (15) & non-WIC (20) • Majors: Education (8), Business Administration (6), Criminal Justice (6), Environmental & Resource Sciences (4),Communication (3), Management (2), Visual Media (1) & History (1) One Introduction to Environmental Science section - 30 students

  6. Tasks/ Prompt As a student, reflect & identify concrete evidence in the form of personal stories that supports your decisions about: • Why are you attending College? • Why did you choose your major? • What are you doing in class to achieve your goals?

  7. Steps (WIC only, WIC & non-WIC) • Pre-test: feelings, role & goals about Writing • Self-reflection & Pre-writing = Draft 1 • Peer-review workshop & peer-feedback + Instructor or Writing Specialist feedback = Draft 2 (non-WIC) • Workshop on How to incorporate feedback = Draft 1.5 • Reverse Outlining workshop = Draft 2 • Revision of Draft 2 at the Writing Center = Draft 3 • Live grading = Draft with Decisions supported by evidence • Post-test about Writing

  8. Peer-review Workshop of Draft 1- Example Why? Elaborate

  9. Incorporating-feedback workshop

  10. Live Grading • How was your experience at the Writing Center? • What is the status of the current draft compared to the first one? • Was this assignment helpful to you? • Is this assignment related to science?

  11. Results non-WIC Section n=20

  12. Results WIC Section n=15

  13. Was the assignment useful? • “No, if I have to write four pages then is like an English class when we are asked to write about ourselves and our experiences” • "I already knew why I was here” • “Somehow, it is similar to essays used for scholarships” • “It helped me to define my choices” • “To compare and contrast high-school and college daily life (and) how they help me towards my daily goal”

  14. Does this assignment relate to science, and if it does, then how? • “Not related to science, but fun assignment. Relief from science because I’m not good at science” • “Only related to science because my major is physical science” • “The assignment relates to science because it asks why” • “Yes, we learn how to do more in depth research using ourselves as an example because we know ourselves best”

  15. How can this assignment be potentially useful For students: • Transition from extrinsic to intrinsic motivations • Improve writing skills • Seek evidence to support decisions • See themselves as scientists? • Build on confidence through metacognition • Collect evidence to write applications for scholarships, jobs, etc. For instructors/ advisors/ career-services: • Know our students motivations and struggles to better address them • More aware students?

  16. Science & Me (Future steps) • Make timeline shorter • Pre- & Post-reflection: Do I consider myself a scientist? Explain • Introduced assignment & Pre-writing = Draft 1 • Peer-review workshop, Peer-feedback & Review = Draft 2 • Live grading (earlier, simplified rubric) • Revision of Draft 2 at the Writing Center = Draft 3 + Reflection about the assignment

  17. Aren’t We All Scientists? First Day "Nice"-Breaker: Using a Gallery Walk to Get Students to Start Thinking About Science- Fred Marton, Earth Educators Rendezvous (2018)

  18. Questions? • Laura Rosales-Lagarde, laura.rosales@nsc.edu • Bre Tavernini, btavernini@nsc.edu

  19. Why am I attending college?

  20. Extras https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Decision-making-for-ecosystem-service-management_fig2_267865969

  21. How the assignment began? • Early Academic Career- Teaching & Research Statements workshops • Teaching students who seem to only seek a grade • Writing Intensive Courses- Laura Decker • Personal statement workshop – Kathryn Tucker

  22. Nevada State College • Henderson, Nevada • 4-year undergraduate focused on teaching institution • ~ 5000 students • HSI • Non-traditional

  23. Why did I choosemy major?

  24. What I do to achieve my goals?

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