夜间实验室对非天文专业学生学习目标的影响
Effect of Night Laboratories on Learning Objectives for a Non-Major Astronomy Class
摘要：
我们测试了动手学习的有效性，夜间实验室，挑战学生的误解，在伦斯勒理工学院的一个非主要的天文学入门课。我们提出了一种新的评估考试用于评估学习在这项研究中。我们能够在8.0 sigma水平上增加对其中一个月相目标的学习，该目标是在多云的夜晚活动中解决的。有微弱的证据表明，在更广泛的学习目标方面有所改善。我们显示的证据表明，类的四个部分的整体成绩水平是相关的数量明确是否有部分观察，即使学习目标主要是在活动中，并不需要晴朗的天空。最后一个结果应该通过未来的研究来证实。我们描述了我们的第一次尝试，通过不同的活动站，试图处理18名学生在实验室的时间，并从中吸取教训的学生周期。
英文摘要：
We tested the effectiveness on learning of hands-on, night-time laboratories that challenged student misconceptions in a non-major introductory astronomy class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. We present a new assessment examination used to assess learning in this study. We were able to increase learning, at the 8.0 sigma level, on one of the moon phase objectives that was addressed in a cloudy night activity. There is weak evidence of some improvement on a broader range of learning objectives. We show evidence that the overall achievement levels of the four sections of the class is correlated with the amount of clear whether the sections had for observing, even though the learning objectives were addressed primarily in activities that did not require clear skies. This last result should be confirmed with future studies. We describe our first attempt to cycle the students through different activity stations in an attempt to handle 18 students at a time in the laboratories, and lessons learned from this.
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