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| Abstract Title: | Network Analysis of Students Descriptions of Scientific Research |
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| Abstract: | This work analyzes students' talk about their expectations and experiences of undergraduate research. The Applying Scientific Knowledge (ASK) program at Wright State University takes science and math majors in their second year, builds a cohort through a shared research methods class, then places students with faculty-mentored research projects. Students' accounts of their experiences are examined using epistemic network analysis, which focuses on connections between different conceptual elements in their responses. Here we give preliminary results from two physics majors, one early and one late in the program. We describe the conceptual elements present and the network structures that emerge from how they link ideas in their responses. The long-term goal of the analysis is to compile trajectories of how students in various disciplines think about and experience scientific research. |
| Abstract Type: | Symposium Poster |
| Parallel Session: | Learning by Analyzing More Than Just Correct Answers |
| Session Time: | Parallel Sessions Cluster I |
| Room: | Cascade C |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Adrienne Traxler Wright State University |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Carissa Myers, Jason Deibel, Meredith Rodgers |
