CoMPASS: Integrating Digital Text in Design-based Science Classrooms
Funded by National Science and technology Digital Library (NSDL) $435,000
This project aimed to further the understanding of integrating the conceptual learning from informational text with the experimental and hands-on activities in design-based classes and to understand students’ changing representations as they use multiple texts in their science explorations. Hands-on activities in which students experience and manipulate scientific phenomena were an integral part of current project-based and design-based approaches to science learning. We found that students can concentrate on the construction activities, and build a working solution by trial and error, without understanding the underlying deep science principles and phenomena during hands-on activities.
Co-PIs: Roland Hübscher, Bentley College, and Sanjay Rebello, Kansas State University.
