This workshop will introduce participants to existing validated instruments that can essentially be used "off-the-shelf" to examine student learning and other factors such as science interest and identity.

The target audience for this workshop is any instructor seeking to begin research in their geoscience course. Participants may be experienced researchers in other aspects of the geosciences, school teachers and geoscientists working in outreach who have previously given little thought to education research.

Conducting research in your geoscience course can help enhance student learning and performance and to identify effective teaching resources that can be shared with the community. This workshop will focus on common types/existing inventories of quantitative geoscience education research and describe analytical methods suitable for it.

We anticipate that participants teaching similar courses or at similar types of institutions may find value in working collaboratively.

Goals

As a result of participation in the workshop, participants will be able to outline some basic steps to investigate a geoscience education research question in one of their classes and understand how to analyze their research findings.

Interested in the workshop? Email kontakt@sylke-hlawatsch.de.

Part 2, from 12:30 to 14:00, will give you the chance to plan your own geoscience education research project and share tools and resources.