Constructing Scientific Arguments Using Evidence from Dynamic Computational Climate Models

Amy Pallant; Hee-Sun Lee

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 24, No. 2 (April 2015) pp. 378–395

Modeling and argumentation are two important scientific practices students need to develop throughout school years. In this paper, we investigated how middle and high school students (N = 512) construct a scientific argument based on evidence from...

The Effect of Two-Dimensional and Stereoscopic Presentation on Middle School Students' Performance of Spatial Cognition Tasks

Aaron Price; Hee-Sun Lee

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2010) pp. 90–103

We investigated whether and how student performance on three types of spatial cognition tasks differs when worked with two-dimensional or stereoscopic representations. We recruited nineteen middle school students visiting a planetarium in a large...

Exploring the Unknown

Amy Pallant; Sarah Pryputniewicz; Hee-Sun Lee

Science Teacher Vol. 79, No. 3 (March 2012) pp. 60–65

Scientists, and science in general, move from the unknown to increasing levels of certainty. Teaching students about science means encouraging them to embrace and investigate the unknown, make reliable scientific claims, justify those claims with...

Elementary Students' Learning of Materials Science Practices through Instruction Based on Engineering Design Tasks

Kristen Bethke Wendell; Hee-Sun Lee

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 19, No. 6 (December 2010) pp. 580–601

Materials science, which entails the practices of selecting, testing, and characterizing materials, is an important discipline within the study of matter. This paper examines how third grade students' materials science performance changes over the...

Modeling Earth's Climate

Amy Pallant; Hee-Sun Lee; Sara Pryputniewicz

Science Teacher Vol. 79, No. 7 (October 2012) pp. 38–42

Systems thinking suggests that one can best understand a complex system by studying the interrelationships of its component parts rather than looking at the individual parts in isolation. With ongoing concern about the effects of climate change,...

I Am Sure There May Be a Planet There: Student Articulation of Uncertainty in Argumentation Tasks

Zoë E. Buck; Hee-Sun Lee; Joanna Flores

International Journal of Science Education Vol. 36, No. 14 (2014) pp. 2391–2420

We investigated how students articulate uncertainty when they are engaged in structured scientific argumentation tasks where they generate, examine, and interpret data to determine the existence of exoplanets. In this study, 302 high school students ...

Teaching with Interactive Computer-Based Simulation Models: Instructional Dilemmas and Opportunities in the High-Adventure Science Project

Karen Mutch-Jones; Santiago Gasca; Amy Pallant; Hee-Sun Lee

School Science and Mathematics Vol. 118, No. 5 (2018) pp. 190–200

The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine teacher instructional dilemmas and opportunities that emerged when students worked with interactive computer-based simulation models during the High-Adventure Science (HAS) project. The...

Measuring Knowledge Integration: Validation of Four-Year Assessments

Ou Lydia Liu; Hee-Sun Lee; Marcia C. Linn

Journal of Research in Science Teaching Vol. 48, No. 9 (November 2011) pp. 1079–1107

Science education needs valid, authentic, and efficient assessments. Many typical science assessments primarily measure recall of isolated information. This paper reports on the validation of assessments that measure knowledge integration ability...

Research towards an Expanded Understanding of Inquiry Science beyond One Idealized Standard

Nancy Butler Songer; Hee-Sun Lee; Scott McDonald

Science Education Vol. 87, No. 4 (2003) pp. 490–516

Examines the implementation and adaptation of Kids as Global Scientists (KGS), an inquiry-based, technology-rich middle school environment. Examines three classrooms of urban teachers in high-poverty environments and two classrooms of maverick...

Annotation of Korean Learner Corpora for Particle Error Detection

Sun-Hee Lee; Seok Bae Jang; Sang-Kyu Seo

CALICO Journal Vol. 26, No. 3 (May 2009) pp. 529–544

In this study, we focus on particle errors and discuss an annotation scheme for Korean learner corpora that can be used to extract heuristic patterns of particle errors efficiently. We investigate different properties of particle errors so that they ...

Position Paper on Use of Stereoscopy to Support Science Learning: Ten Years of Research

C. Aaron Price; Hee-Sun Lee; Julia D. Plummer; Mark SubbaRao; Ryan Wyatt

Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education Vol. 2, No. 1 (2015) pp. 17–26

Stereoscopy's potential as a tool for science education has been largely eclipsed by its popularity as an entertainment platform and marketing gimmick. Dozens of empirical papers have been published in the last decade about the impact of stereoscopy ...

COBRIX: A Physical Computing Interface for Blind and Visually Impaired Students to Learn Programming

Jung-Hyun Ahn; Woonhee Sung; Sun Woong Lee; Jang Hee I

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 727–733

Despite national attention on computer science, there is a significant lack of educational resources for visually impaired or blind population to get introduced to learn to program. This population should be active participants, rather than passive...

Topics: Mobile Learning, Special Education / Assistive Technology, Universal Design for Learning

Factors Influencing Students' Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction with the Online Learning Community for Korean High School Science Classes

Jung-Sun Lee; Jung-Moon Yoo; Phil Seok Oh; Myung Hee Kong

Science Education International Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 2006) pp. 275–286

The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing students' satisfaction and dissatisfaction with an Online Learning Community (OLC). The OLC was a Web-based system that was used to supplement school science curriculum. Data was...