This work is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM program within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (DUE-1245025).

INTRO TO GETSI FOR PILOT-TESTERS

The webinar begins at:2 pm PT | 3 pm MT

For audio, call: 1-877-668-4490(or 1-408-792-6300)

Access Code: 572 211 618

Press *6 to mute and unmute(but hopefully we won’t need any muting)

Headphones give less feedback than speakerphone.

WEBINAR GOALS

By the end of the webinar you will be able to:

• Describe GETSI and its guiding principles

• State what data will be collected, why, and how (GLE, attitudinal surveys, student work)

• Find more information and resources as you need on the GETSI website to support beta-testing

GETSI – TEACHING MATERIALS W/ GEODESY DATA

PEOPLE INVOLVED

• PIs

– Facilitator--Beth Pratt-Sitaula (UNAVCO)

– Introductory--Becca Walker (Mt SAC)

– Majors--Bruce Douglas (Indiana U)

• SERC Assessment/Evaluation

– Ellen Iverson (SERC)

GETSI-SERC RELATIONSHIP

• GETSI largely uses the InTeGrate model for development (as practical)

• GETSI largely uses InTeGrate assessment process for module quality and student learning evidence

• GETSI site is hosted by SERC

A five-year community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce

prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues

An NSF STEP CenterDUE-1125331

InTeGrate supports the teaching of geoscience in the context of societal issues both within geoscience courses and across

the undergraduate curriculum.

• Geoscience must come together with other disciplines as our nation and the world struggle with significant environmental and resource challenges.

• Meeting these challenges will require a savvy public, a new kind of workforce, and a broader understanding of geoscience by all who engage these issues

USGS

Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia

Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future

Example modules (all Intro)

GUIDED BY EARTH SCIENCE & CLIMATE LITERACY DOCS

GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT

A. Address Grand Challenges

B. Interdisciplinary problems (geoscience applied to social issues)

C. Nature and methods of science (geoscientifichabits of mind)

D. Authentic geodesy data and inquiry

E. [System thinking]

GRAND CHALLENGES GEODESY/GETSI--subset of these of particular societalimportance

B. INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS(GEOSCIENCE & SOCIAL SCIENCE TIED TOGETHER)

GETSI Year 1 modules

• Majors – learning to identify earthquake faults and rupture characteristics to better protect critical societal infrastructure

• Intro – analyze societal consequences of sea level rise

C. NATURE AND METHODS OF SCIENCE

Integrating Geoscientific thinking into learning materials

Single most important thing you can do is to simply make your thinking explicit

• Think aloud to students as you reason through a geoscientificquestion

• Ask students to explore the uncertainty in data rather than just the data itself

• Add reflective prompts to existing activities that involve open-ended inquiry or research projects

• Ask students how and why they would address a problem rather than solve the problem (Ex. designing a field investigation)

D. AUTHENTIC GEODESY DATA AND INQUIRYPARTICULARLY CRITICAL ASPECT OF GETSI

GETSI Year 1 modules

• Intro – satellite sea level, tidal gauge, GRACE satellite [gravity], temperature, GPS for ice mass changes

• Majors – LiDAR, InSAR

E. [SYSTEMS THINKING]

• Earth is a complex and dynamic system

• Students need to understand that changes in one part of the system can affect other parts

• Systems thinking strategies

– Explicitly highlight connections in discussions/lecture

– Concept maps

– Case studies

– Simple models

LINKING GOALS AND PROCESS: THE MATERIALS DESIGN RUBRIC

1. Guiding Principles

2. Learning Goals and Outcomes

3. Assessment and Measurement

4. Resources and Materials

5. Instructional Strategies

6. Alignment

7. GETSI-specific Instructional Strategies

CLASSROOM PILOT & DATA COLLECTION

*IRB approval

Development Timeline

http://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/info_team_members/timeline.html

• Pre- & Post-course Geoscience Literacy Assessment (GLE 8 MC questions)

• 2 from each literacy document

• 4 Single answer and 4 “select all that apply”

• Two post-course short essay questions(interdisciplinary & systems thinking)

http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/info_team_members/currdev/documents/gle/index.html

Example of GLE question

POST-COURSE SHORT ESSAY QUESTIONS

See website

• Graded by faculty of the pilot testing classroom based upon a rubric

• Summative and conclusive measuring the level of understanding when learning related to that module goal is completed

• Used in the same fashion in all materials pilot-testing classrooms

http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/info_team_members/currdev/assessment.html#sum

• Pre- & post-course motivation and career interest survey (related to project evaluation)

http://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/info_team_members/forms_docs/index.html

• Course Information

• Demographic data

• Faculty Reflection Survey• Post-Pilot Testing

• Conducted and setup through SERC using course set-up form

http://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/info_team_members/forms_docs/course_form.html

Data Collection

http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/info_team_members/currdev/course_status.html

Where can you find help?

GETSI COURSE STATUS PAGE

• Once your course set-up form is completed, this will be your go-to place to see your progress in the assessment process

http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/info_team_members/currdev/status_page.html

IMPORTANT LINKS

• This webinar – within “Team Meetings”http://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/meetings/index.html

• GETSI websitehttp://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/index.html

• Material Testers informationhttp://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/info_team_members/index.html#testers– GETSI Course Set-up Form – do it this week

http://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/info_team_members/forms_docs/course_form.html

– Materials Testing Overview http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/info_team_members/currdev/course_status.html

– Data Collection Detailshttp://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/info_team_members/currdev/course_status.html

– Course Status Page http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/info_team_members/currdev/status_page.html

• Materials in Progress – access to your moduleshttp://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/info_team_members/materials.html

FOLLOW UP WORK

• Finish IRB Process

• Complete Course Set-up Form

• Review website information