Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering

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The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research in physics, biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry. DBER combines knowledge of teaching and learning with deep knowledge of discipline-specific science content. It describes the discipline-specific difficulties learners face and the specialized intellectual and instructional resources that can facilitate student understanding.

Discipline-Based Education Research is based on a 30-month study built on two workshops held in 2008 to explore evidence on promising practices in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. This book asks questions that are essential to advancing DBER and broadening its impact on undergraduate science teaching and learning. The book provides empirical research on undergraduate teaching and learning in the sciences, explores the extent to which this research currently influences undergraduate instruction, and identifies the intellectual and material resources required to further develop DBER.

Discipline-Based Education Research provides guidance for future DBER research. In addition, the findings and recommendations of this report may invite, if not assist, post-secondary institutions to increase interest and research activity in DBER and improve its quality and usefulness across all natural science disciples, as well as guide instruction and assessment across natural science courses to improve student learning. The book brings greater focus to issues of student attrition in the natural sciences that are related to the quality of instruction. Discipline-Based Education Research will be of interest to educators, policy makers, researchers, scholars, decision makers in universities, government agencies, curriculum developers, research sponsors, and education advocacy groups.

Language: English

Pages: 282

Format: Paperback

Publisher: National Academies Press

Release: September 27, 2012

ISBN: 0309254116

ISBN 13: 9780309254113

Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering

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Language: English

Pages: 282

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Publisher: National Academies Press

Release: September 27, 2012

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