Search results for author:"Cindy Hmelo-Silver"
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Technology-Supported Inquiry for Learning about Aquatic Ecosystems
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Catherine Eberbach; Rebecca Jordan
EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education Vol. 10, No. 5 (October 2014) pp. 405–413
Understanding ecosystems is challenging, but important for becoming environmentally-literate citizens of today's society. People have difficulty considering how different components, mechanisms, and phenomena, both visible and invisible, are...
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Balancing Broad Ideas with Context: An Evaluation of Student Accuracy in Describing Ecosystem Processes after a System-Level Intervention
Rebecca C. Jordan; Wesley R. Brooks; Cindy Hmelo-Silver; Catherine Eberbach; Suparna Sinha
Journal of Biological Education Vol. 48, No. 2 (2014) pp. 57–62
Promoting student understanding of ecosystem processes is critical to biological education. Yet, teaching complex life systems can be difficult because systems are dynamic and often behave in a non-linear manner. In this paper, we discuss assessment ...
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Promoting Transfer of Ecosystems Concepts
Yawen Yu; Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Rebecca Jordan; Catherine Eberbach; Suparna Sinha
International Journal of Environmental and Science Education Vol. 11, No. 18 (2016) pp. 11127–11148
This study examines to what extent students transferred their knowledge from a familiar aquatic ecosystem to an unfamiliar rainforest ecosystem after participating in a technology-rich inquiry curriculum. We coded students' drawings for components...