Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The U.S. has a problem: it is not effectively utilizing all the bright young minds available to its science & engineering workforce. In 2012 the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) reported that a million more STEM professionals in the U.S. workforce were needed over the next decade. PCAST reported that the situation is far worse for underrepresented students, who make up 70% of undergraduate students but only 45% of the STEM degrees. Recent reports suggest women in science and engineering have made small gains, while historically underrepresented ethnic groups (Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians) continue to be significantly underrepresented. The lack of diversity in the U.S. workforce is not reflected in the USA population nor is it reflected in the undergraduate student population. As the U.S. aspires to retain a leadership role in research and development in an increasingly diverse and globally interconnected society, this disparity is unsustainable. What if having more culturally interesting, more culturally responsive STEM classes is a way of increasing the diversity of the science and engineering workforce in the U.S.? This study focuses on a topic that has been generally overlooked by the STEM educational community, but one that is directly relevant to student engagement and learning outcomes: the role of culture as a variable in student learning. This study examines how different pedagogical approaches shape student outcomes in Astronomy 101 courses. In a comparative study two different pedagogical approaches were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods in a semiexperimental nonequivalent group research design. The theories of culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP), active learning theory in STEM, and Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) ground this approach. The findings of this study show important gains for all students. Underrepresented minority students (URM) in the course with increased culturally responsive pedagogy were exceptionally engaged and learning gains soared. By measure of the concept inventory, the URM students in the course with increased culturally responsive pedagogy outperformed all other students in the study. As the U.S. will have a non-white majority by the year 2045 and diversity in STEM faculty lags there is a need for tangible, evidence-based, culture-based curriculum and pedagogy. There is a problem and based on the evidence found in this study, there is a way to fix it. / The U.S. has a problem: it is not effectively utilizing all the bright young minds available to its science & engineering workforce. In 2012 the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) reported that a million more STEM professionals in the U.S. workforce were needed over the next decade. PCAST reported that the situation is far worse for underrepresented students, who make up 70% of undergraduate students but only 45% of the STEM degrees. Recent reports suggest women in science and engineering have made small gains, while historically underrepresented ethnic groups (Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians) continue to be significantly underrepresented. The lack of diversity in the U.S. workforce is not reflected in the USA population nor is it reflected in the undergraduate student population. As the U.S. aspires to retain a leadership role in research and development in an increasingly diverse and globally interconnected society, this disparity is unsustainable. What if having more culturally interesting, more culturally responsive STEM classes is a way of increasing the diversity of the science and engineering workforce in the U.S.? This study focuses on a topic that has been generally overlooked by the STEM educational community, but one that is directly relevant to student engagement and learning outcomes: the role of culture as a variable in student learning. This study examines how different pedagogical approaches shape student outcomes in Astronomy 101 courses. In a comparative study two different pedagogical approaches were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods in a semiexperimental nonequivalent group research design. The theories of culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP), active learning theory in STEM, and Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) ground this approach. The findings of this study show important gains for all students. Underrepresented minority students (URM) in the course with increased culturally responsive pedagogy were exceptionally engaged and learning gains soared. By measure of the concept inventory, the URM students in the course with increased culturally responsive pedagogy outperformed all other students in the study. As the U.S. will have a non-white majority by the year 2045 and diversity in STEM faculty lags there is a need for tangible, evidence-based, culture-based curriculum and pedagogy. There is a problem and based on the evidence found in this study, there is a way to fix it.

<p>  </p> <p>Informal learning environments are critical to supplemental student learning outside the formal classroom space. The problem the research addressed is the lack of informal STEM learning programs for underrepresented minority, female, urban, and rural students. The purpose of this research was to demonstrate the effect informal STEM learning has on the population’s self-efficacy and interest in STEM. The intervention for this research study was a seven-day informal learning summer camp involving five STEM projects from around the field and aligned with relevant fields offered by the Purdue University Polytechnic Institute. The participants worked in large and small group sessions with program volunteers to gain foundational learning outcomes. The outcome was measured using the STEM-CIS survey instrument in a pre-and post-testing format. The data was coded from the Likert scale and then used to calculate statistics and effect size for Likert-style data. The intervention was performed during the summer of 2021 and yielded results showing that students felt the effect of having role models and professionals involved in the STEM field. </p>

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Das Forschungsfeld der Bildungsforschung befindet sich seit der ersten PISA-Studie in einer starken Expansionsphase. Bisherige Analysen dieses Feldes beschränken sich allerdings auf allgemeine Übersichten zu verschiedenen Aspekten, etwa zum Personal, zur Finanzierung, zu Forschungsprojekten oder zu Publikationen. Das Ziel der Dissertation ist es dagegen, speziell die kognitiven Strukturen der Bildungsforschung in Deutschland, und hier insbesondere die in diesem Feld behandelten Forschungsthemen sowie seine Wissensbasis, mittels der bibliometrischen Methoden der Kowort- und der Referenzanalyse zu untersuchen. Die Datengrundlage bildeten zum einen die Schlagwörter zu 23389 Publikationen des Zeitraums 2000 bis 2009, die durch eine schlagwortbasierte Suche in der FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank ermittelt wurden. Zum anderen die in den Beiträgen der dritten Auflage des Handbuchs Bildungsforschung zitierten 3921 Referenzen. Die Ergebnisse der Referenzanalysen zeigen eine nach wie vor sehr große Bedeutung der Publikationstypen Monographie und Sammelband und einen relativ starken nationalen Fokus im Zitationsverhalten, aber auch große Unterschiede in den Zitationsmustern zwischen den einzelnen Beiträgen. Zudem zeigt sich, dass die Schulleistungsstudien und die Bildungsberichte die einflussreichsten Publikationen der aktuellen Bildungsforschung darstellen und die Pädagogik, die Soziologie, die Psychologie sowie die Wirtschaftswissenschaften die wichtigsten Bezugsdisziplinen. In der Analyse der thematischen Schwerpunkte bestätigt sich die zentrale Rolle des Themenbereichs Schülerleistung und ist ein Bedeutungszuwachs der Forschung zum Thema Lernen zu erkennen. Aus den Analysen lässt sich folgern, dass Handbücher eine informative, aber noch wenig genutzte, Datenquelle der Wissenschaftsforschung darstellen. Ferner sind mit der Methode der Kowortanalyse auch differenziertere Untersuchungen von Forschungsfeldern, die nicht gut in Zitationsdatenbanken abgedeckt sind, möglich. / Since the first PISA study the field of educational research is going through a phase of strong expansion. Previous analyses of the field are largely confined to general overviews of various aspects like scientific staff, funding, research projects or publications. The aim of the thesis, in contrast, is to study the cognitive structures of educational research in Germany, in particular the research topics and the knowledge base of the field, using the bibliometric methods of co-word analysis and reference analysis. Two data sources were used: the keywords of 23389 publications from the period 2000 to 2009. These publications were identified by a keyword-based search in the German Education Index. And the 3921 references cited in the articles of the third edition of the Handbuch Bildungsforschung. The results of the reference analysis show a high relevance of the document types monograph and edited book and a relatively strong national focus but also considerable differences in the citation patterns of the individual articles. Furthermore, student assessment studies and education reports are the most influential publications of current educational research and pedagogy, socioloy, psychology and economics the main reference disciplines. The analysis of the thematic priorities reaffirms the central role of the topic student achievement and shows a growing importance of the issue of learning. It can be concluded that handbooks are an informative but still largely unexplored data source in science studies. Moreover, the method of co-word analysis facilitates more detailed investigations of research fields that are not well covered in citation indexes.

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Depuis plus de trente ans, le Québec a pris position en faveur d’un mouvement de professionnalisation de l’enseignement. Ce choix se fonde principalement sur la volonté de moderniser les systèmes d’éducation grâce à la consolidation d’une expertise du travail enseignant. Elle a donc engendré toute une série de réformes visant à formaliser les pratiques des enseignants, à les appuyer sur les résultats de la recherche et à développer un code de pratiques responsables. Cependant, dans une perspective critique, ce processus de professionnalisation entre également dans le cadre plus large d’un processus de rationalisation étatique. Il exige de plus en plus des enseignants de faire preuve d’efficacité à tout prix, mais cette exigence ne tient pas compte de l’incertitude de l’action et des valeurs en jeu. Cette thèse vise à analyser, à partir d’une perspective critique, la conception de l’articulation entre la recherche et la pratique sous-jacente au mouvement de professionnalisation en vue de proposer une conception plus adéquate en regard de la réalité pratique: la traduction. Ce faisant, la thèse propose une réflexion sur le rôle transformateur du langage dans tout processus de transmission des connaissances. L’approche de la traduction s'inspire à la fois de la tradition herméneutique et de la critique poststructuraliste, et remet en question la conception du langage comme véhicule transparent de la pensée et des connaissances. À la lumière de ce cadre, je propose une analyse empirique (analyses discursive et sémiotique) des mécanismes de traduction qui assurent le passage du monde de la recherche vers le monde de l'enseignement. Cette partie repose sur une analyse comparative d’articles provenant de la revue Vie pédagogique, analyse qui se concentre sur les processus de traductions à l’œuvre dans trois concepts centraux du mouvement de professionnalisation : la pratique réflexive, la compétence et la collaboration. Elle met en lumière la manière dont le cadre actuel de la professionnalisation est réducteur, totalisant, et nie le caractère traductif du langage et de l’activité humaine. Je conclus avec une reconceptualisation de l'enseignement en tant que traduction et acte de profession de foi. / For over thirty years, Quebec has taken a stance in favour of a movement for the professionalization of teaching. This position is based primarily on the desire to modernize the educational system by reinforcing teaching skills, and it has spawned a whole series of reforms whose aim is to formalize teaching practices, to strengthen them on the basis of research results and to develop a code of responsible practices. Viewed from a critical perspective, this process of professionalization can be understood as being part of a wider process of state rationalization. Thus, the state increasingly demands that actors prove effective at all cost. This demand, however, does not take into account the reality of teaching, which is based in a large part on the uncertainty of action and of the values at stake. This dissertation attempts to analyze, from a critical view point, the conception of the relationship between research and practice underlying the professionalization movement, in order to offer an alternative conception - translation - that seems more appropriate in view of practical reality. In doing so, it reflects on the transformative role of language in processes of knowledge transfer. The "translation approach", which is the theoretical framework of our critical analysis, is informed by both the hermeneutic tradition and poststructuralist critique, and calls into question the notion that language is a transparent means for conveying thought and knowledge. In light of this framework, the thesis presents an empirical analysis (semiotic and discourse analysis) of the translation mechanisms that ensure the passage from the world of research to the world of teaching. Towards this end, various articles from the journal Vie pédagogique are submitted to a comparative analysis that focuses on the processes of translation at work in three central concepts of the professionalization movement – reflective practice, competence and collaboration – in order to highlight how the current framework of professionalization is reductive, totalizing, and how it denies the translational nature of language and of human activity. To conclude, the thesis offers a reconceptualization of teaching as translation and as an act of profession of faith.

This musical, arts-based educational research describes the lived experiences of four K-12 New Orleans educators who believe that end-of-year standardized tests hinder their ability to teach in ways they believe are best. Using songwriting as a form of data elicitation and narrative restorying, this study documents the lived experiences of teachers who have experienced test-related cognitive dissonance. While curricular narrowing and other test-related practices have been studied in many contexts, the perspectives of New Orleans teachers are barely documented. Thus, this study fills a content gap in the testing literature. Musically restorying the data contributes to the accountability literature in three main ways. First, restorying the data as song renders the findings evocatively — that is, in ways that capture the emotion with which the data was originally imbued. Second, because this study is performative (the results were sung live in the community), the opportunity exists to ignite a local conversation aimed at helping teachers navigate testing/teaching conundrums. Finally, as music is one of the least utilized forms of art-based research, this study fills a methodological gap in the arts-based research repository.

(<特集>教育現場の多様化と教育学の課題) (<Special Issue>Diversification of Research Field in Educational Studies)

(<特集>情報化時代における教育学の課題) (<Special Issue>Educational Research in the Age of Information Society: Themes and Concerns)

Professional competencies are explicitly identified in the primary learning outcomes for science and engineering degrees at many tertiary institutions.  Fulfillment of the requirements to equip our students with these skills, while formally acknowledged as important by all stakeholders, can be hard to demonstrate in practice.  Most degree awarding institutions would have difficulties if asked to document where in degree programs such competencies are developed. The work in this thesis addresses the issue of professional competencies from several angles.  The Open-Ended Group Project (OEGP) concept is introduced and proposed as an approach to constructing learning environments in which students’ development of professional competencies can be stimulated and assessed.  Scholarly, research-based development of the IT in Society course unit (ITiS) is described and analyzed in order to present ideas for tailoring OEGP-based course units towards meeting learning objectives related to professional competence.  Work in this thesis includes an examination of both the meanings attributed to the term professional competencies, and methods which can be used to assess the competencies once they are agreed on. The empirical work on developing ITiS is based on a framework for educational research, which has been both refined and extended as an integral part of my research.  The action research methodology is presented and concrete examples of implementations of different pedagogical interventions, based on the methodology, are given.  The framework provides support for relating a theoretical foundation to studies, or development, of learning environments.  The particular theoretical foundation for the examples in this thesis includes, apart from the action research methodology, constructivism, conceptual change, threshold concepts, communities of practice, ill-structured problem solving, the reflective practicum, and problem based learning. The key finding in this thesis is that development and assessment of professional competencies is not a pipe dream.  Assessment can be accomplished, and the OEGP concept provides a flexible base for creating an appropriate learning environment for this purpose. / <p>Felaktigt tryckt som Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 738</p>