TY - GEN
T1 - Coding and analyzing scientific observations from middle school students in minecraft
AU - Yi, Sherry
AU - Gadbury, Matt
AU - Chad Lane, H.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to express gratefulness to Dr. Neil Comins for consulting on astronomical topics and to our technical team comprised of Dr. Jeff Ginger, Jack Henhapl, and Aidan Rivera-Rogers, for their immense contributions to this project. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1713609. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The importance of promoting interest in STEM is crucial to the recruitment and retainment of underrepresented populations in the STEM field. We coded scientific observations made by participants from a one-week summer camp program centered around astronomy using Minecraft, breaking down the types of scientific observations and their level of quality using Cohen’s Kappa. Results showed that the majority of observations are descriptive, comparative, inferential, or analogous, as opposed to being off topic or factual. We discuss possible reasons for this distribution and design implications for future reiterations.
AB - The importance of promoting interest in STEM is crucial to the recruitment and retainment of underrepresented populations in the STEM field. We coded scientific observations made by participants from a one-week summer camp program centered around astronomy using Minecraft, breaking down the types of scientific observations and their level of quality using Cohen’s Kappa. Results showed that the majority of observations are descriptive, comparative, inferential, or analogous, as opposed to being off topic or factual. We discuss possible reasons for this distribution and design implications for future reiterations.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102963651
T3 - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
SP - 1787
EP - 1788
BT - 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
A2 - Gresalfi, Melissa
A2 - Horn, Ilana Seidel
PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
T2 - 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020
Y2 - 19 June 2020 through 23 June 2020
ER -