Title: Qualitative inquiry in geoscience education research /
Authors: Feig, Anthony D.; Stokes, Alison.
Publisher: Geological Society of America,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Geology Study and teaching United States.; Qualitative research.
Contents: Methodology and location in the context of qualitative data and theoretical frameworks in geoscience education research / Anthony D. Feig -- Theoretical perspectives on constructing experience through alternative field-based learning environments for students with mobility impairments / Christopher l. Atchison and Anthony D. Feig -- A phenomenographic approach to investigating students' conceptions of geoscience as an academic discipline / Alison Stokes -- The qualitative underpinnings of quantitative concept inventory questions / Julie C. Libarkin and Emily M. Geraghty Ward -- Ethnographic methods in analysis of place-based geoscience curriculum and pedagogy / Deborah Williams and Steven Semken -- Developing a process model for visual penetrative ability / Matthew Alles and Eric M. Riggs -- Designing a mixed-methods research instrument and scoring rubric to investigate individuals' conceptions of plate tectonics / Scott K. Clark and Julie C. Libarkin -- Qualitative methods applied in the development of an introductory oceanography concept inventory survey / Leilani Arthurs and Thomas Marchitto -- Geobiological opportunities to learn at U.S. fossil parks / Renee M. Clary and James H. Wandersee -- What college-level students think : student alternate conceptions and their cognitive models of geoscience concepts / Leilani Arthurs -- Understanding, evaluation, and use of climate forecast data by environmental policy students / Toru Ishikawa ... [et al.] -- Counting tectonic plates : a mixed-methods study of college students' conceptions of plates and boundaries / Karen M. Kortz ... [et al.] -- Student interpretation of a global elevation map : what it is, how it was made, and what it is useful for / Sandra Swenson and Kim Kastens.