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Open Source Technology for Teaching Modeling in Science Education
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EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Lugano, Switzerland ISBN 978-1-880094-53-2 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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The Concord Consortium has developed a powerful technological infrastructure that supports the rapid development and deployment of learning activities that monitor and scaffold students' interactions with manipulable models in biology, chemistry, and physics. The software generates log files and automatically analyzes them and generates reports to researchers, teachers and students. Our deployment strategy makes it feasible for a researcher to develop different versions of a learning activity and randomly assign these to different students. Such a design makes it possible to address detailed research questions, using a sample size large enough to ensure adequate statistical power. Our technology is all open source and we invite education researchers, curriculum designers, and assessment specialists to make use of it in their own projects.

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Horwitz, P. & Tinker, R. (2004). Open Source Technology for Teaching Modeling in Science Education. In L. Cantoni & C. McLoughlin (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2004--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 1817-1822). Lugano, Switzerland: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 8, 2024 from .

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