Greetings all, We are looking to hire a post-doctoral associate as part of the Science Education Initiative at the University of Colorado in the Department of ...
Tim Slater
timslaterwyo@...
Feb 3, 2009 11:07 pm
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey III & the Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (CATS) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astronomy Education Research Applications are...
For those of you who haven't seen this yet: http://www.mikebrotherton.com/diamonds/ It's a collection of free, scientifically accurate, science fiction. I've...
Carrie Nugent
cnugent@...
Feb 18, 2009 8:26 pm
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Greetings all, For my intro astro for science students class, I've assigned Kutner's "Astronomy, a Physical Perspective". It's in its 2nd edition but...
For those fans of HR diagrams... Ever wanted a way to help your students visualize how a cluster's HR diagram changes with time? My colleague came across the...
Hello! I have some questions for those of you who are steeped in the use of statistics. The multiple-choice scanner/analyzer software I use creates a "point...
Dear Nick, I've just starting looking at similar statistics (I think "point biserial" is "index of discrimination" from Aubrecht & Aubrecht, 1983) from last...
Nick and Patrick, I have attacked this problem before. This is certainly a way to determine the difficulty level of a question. Negative values of the point...
Hi Nick, Stepping back from the stats lingo, I'd say that I don't look at point biserial to think about whether or not the question is discriminating, or if...
Stephanie J. Slater
sslaterwyo@...
Feb 24, 2009 5:56 pm
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HELP BUILD THE COSMOS PORTAL The Cosmos Portal sponsored by the non-profit Digital Universe Foundation is supporting the IAU International Year of Astronomy...
Tim Slater
timslaterwyo@...
Feb 26, 2009 4:19 am
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Folks, Are there any studies out there regarding the effectiveness of different "reward" schemes to re-enforce/encourage college students solving online...
You mean: get enough answers right and you earn a free iTunes download? Maybe that's not such a bad idea. - Joann Eisberg ________________________________ ...
The website "MasteringAstronomy" that comes with The Cosmic Perspective book (Bennett et al) has a fairly sophisticated credit scheme, that depends on how many...
I think I may have been unclear about the following on my last post: It is the feedback of a good on-line education tool that is valuable, not the grading...
We've been using those simple, cardboard-tube, 2-plastic-lens telescopes for our ASTRO 101 labs and outreach projects. They cost about $10 each so if they...
hi - i saw one at the AAS and it does disassemble. i was most impressed by the quality of the optics. the tube is plastic with slip rings to hold it...
Eric M. Schlegel
eric.schlegel@...
Mar 9, 2009 5:42 pm
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Hi all, We've seen the G-scope and it's fabulous! Doug Arion, it's primary designer, sent one of the prototypes out to us in December for some work that we...
Stephanie J Slater
sslaterwyo@...
Mar 9, 2009 9:35 pm
2447
Peter, We are placing a large order of telescopes by collaborating with area schools and astronomy clubs and pooling our resources. You can see disassembly and...
Lecturer in Geological Sciences and Earth Science Education at UNC-CH The Department of Geological Sciences at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Tim Slater
timslaterwyo@...
Mar 10, 2009 4:58 pm
2449
Does anyone know approximately what percentage of astronomy grad schools have a formal procedure for training grad students to teach astronomy and what the...
The number is quite small, nationally. Many unversities have a manditory training program for all teaching assistants, most often a half-day. This is...
Tim Slater
timslaterwyo@...
Mar 11, 2009 2:20 pm
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Regarding what universities do for grad student teacher training, here's my experiences: When I was at Pitt (University of Pittsburgh) as a grad student...
Tim, I can attest to that. When I was an astronomy grad student in the 90s, we were asked (voluntary) to go to one session of two hours or so for training on...
I have 2 requests: I am a High School teacher in Tampa, Fl. I look every summer for Educational Workshops in Astronomy. I have attended the education workshops...
I am the program manager for an NSF sponsored GK-12 program. This program has 10 STEM graduate students each year training to become better communicators of...
Hi Elaine (and everyone else), I have few ideas for workshops: Science Workshops for Educators at Penn State http://teachscience.psu.edu/ -- there is a tuition...
Elaine, to my knowledge, there is no observatory in Ecuador; however, you may take a trip to either Chile (La Silla) where there is the famous observatory...
Wilson, Ernst
ewilson@...
Mar 12, 2009 5:39 pm
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At UBC, all incoming TAs, both in physics and astronomy, participate in a 1-day TA training workshop in early September. This workshop is lead by experienced...
Elaine, Regarding your second question: there are 2 online programs I can suggest. The first is Swinburne University of Melbourne in Australia. The website...
When I served as AAS Education Coordinator 10 years ago we did a survey of astronomy faculty. A little less than half had ever attended any seminar on...
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