Using Learner-Centered Strategies to Improve Student Understanding About Stars

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21343002b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #430.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.262

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As faculty increasingly adopt learner-centered strategies for their introductory astronomy classes, it is important to determine whether such strategies are positively impacting student learning. One measure of student achievement that has been adopted is the use of concept inventories to measure changes in understanding of a specific topic over some period of instruction. The Star Properties Concept Inventory (SPCI) was used as a pre/posttest in a lecture-only course during Spring 2007 and again in Fall 2007 when the instructors incorporated Peer Instruction-style questions and Lecture Tutorials. Initial analysis shows that although pretest results were not significantly different between the two semesters, posttest results for the Fall 2007 semester are statistically significantly higher than those of the Spring 2007 offering. This result supports the idea that learner-centered strategies are more effective at supporting student understanding than are traditional lecture-only methods.
This project is supported by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Division of Research and Graduate Studies.

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