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Evaluating the Impact of TIEE Activities on Student Learning: Lessons for the Instructor

The author of this TIEE Research Paper assessed the use of student-active activities to teach students to use the scientific method and improve their understanding of basic ecological concepts. The author used TIEE exercises and student-active methods such as turn-to-your-neighbor and jigsaw activities to engage her students. The study was conducted in a sophomore level ecology course. Although students performed similarly on an 8 item instructor developed pre- and post-test, there were some qualitative improvements on open- answer questions. In the post test, 72% of the students had a better answer for "What is ecology?" and 33% had a better explanation for "What is science?". Similarly, 43% were better able to create and interpret a graph, and 33% could better detect a flaw in experimental design. Using responses from final reflective essays, 58% of students volunteered that outdoor labs (mainly using TIEE experiments) were the most effective part of the course.
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Resource Group TIEE
Resource Group Link https://ecoed.esa.org/index.php?P=SearchResults&F46=TIEE
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Life science discipline (subject)
Keywords research practitioner; TIEE; education research; teaching as scholarship; pedagogy; student-active; assessment; graph interpretation
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Pedagogical Use Description This article is a useful resource for ecology faculty who are interested in student-active methods, their effectiveness, and the process of conducting education researching in a college classroom. The author of the article describes not only her reasoning, methods, and results, but also reflects on what she learned as an instructor. The article should be of interest to faculty interested in the effectiveness of different teaching techniques as well as those interested in conducting similar research. Some of the resources that the author used in the classroom are provided on the TIEE website. This study was published in Volume 5 of TIEE.
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Url http://tiee.esa.org/vol/v5/research/schnurr/article.html
Full Name of Primary Author Jaclyn Schnurr
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Primary Author Affiliation Wells College, Biological and Chemical Sciences
Primary Author email jschnurr@wells.edu
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Rights Copyright 2007 by Jaclyn Schnurr and the Ecological Society of America.
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Drought and Water Ecosystem Services Collection Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection Off
Big Data Collection Off
Editors Choice No
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Date Of Record Submission 2007-10-11
I Agree to EcoEdDL's Copyright Policy & Terms of Use No
Date Of Record Release 2010-02-16 01:31:36
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Date Last Modified 2018-07-25 11:03:34
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