This website is preserved as an Archive for the NSF-funded
SPACE program (2003-2007). Current resources in support of
Spatially Integrated Social Science
are now available at the following:
 www.spatial.ucsb.edu |
 www.gispopsci.org |
 www.teachspatial.org |
SPACE Teaching Resources
Links
- Book - Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning - From the National Academies Press website: "Inquiry" refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and in which students grasp science knowledge and the methods by which that knowledge is produced. This book explains and illustrates how inquiry helps students learn science content, master how to do science, and understand the nature of science - Turning to assessment, the committee discusses why assessment is important, looks at existing schemes and formats, and addresses how to involve students in assessing their own learning achievements. In addition, this book discusses administrative assistance, communication with parents, appropriate teacher evaluation, and other avenues to promoting and supporting this new teaching paradigm.
- Book - Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment - From the National Academies Press website: "Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored."
- Book - Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K-12 Curriculum - From the National Academies Press website: "Spatial thinking a constructive combination of concepts of space, tools of representation, and processes of reasoning uses space to structure problems, find answers, and express solutions. It is powerful and pervasive in science, the workplace, and everyday life. By visualizing relationships within spatial structures, we can perceive, remember, and analyze the static and dynamic properties of objects and the relationships between objects...Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K-12 Curriculum examines how spatial thinking might be incorporated into existing standards-based instruction across the school curriculum. Spatial thinking must be recognized as a fundamental part of K-12 education and as an integrator and a facilitator for problem solving across the curriculum. With advances in computing technologies and the increasing availability of geospatial data, spatial thinking will play a significant role in the information- based economy of the 21st-century…A geographic information system (GIS) offers one example of a high-technology support system that can enable students and teachers to practice and apply spatial thinking in many areas of the curriculum."
- DLESE Evaluation Toolkit - This section of the Digital Library for Earth System Education website is designed to help educators find resources for evaluation, get feedback and help, and share results. The site hosts numerous education and evaluation resources submitted by members of the geoscience community.
- Education Resources Information Center - This site is the entry to the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences' searchable database of journal and non-journal education literature, providing access to a wide range of educational resources.
- Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) - Offers broadly applicable, self-contained modular classroom assessment techniques (CATs) and discipline-specific tools for STEM instructors interested in new approaches to evaluating student learning, attitudes and performance.
- Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative Evaluation Cookbook - This site offers descriptions of a number of innovative assessment and evaluation techniques and their uses, and provides information about the preparation time, student time, and administration and analysis time required when using each method. Links to further reading on each method are also included.
- Learning Through Technology - Features information on using technology in the classroom, case studies, assessment tools, glossary, and links. Provided by the National Center for Science Education.
- Online Evaluation Resource Library - This library was developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations. OERL's resources include instruments, plans, and reports from evaluations that have proven to be sound and representative of current evaluation practices.
- Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (online journal) - This website is the location of an online peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research in assessment, evaluation, and teaching practice. Recent articles include "Student perspectives on rubric-referenced assessment" and "Toward a more complete picture of student learning: assessing students' motivational beliefs."
- Teaching Goals Inventory Online - A self-assessment of instructional goals. Its purpose is threefold: (1) to help college teachers become more aware of what they want to accomplish in individual courses; (2) to help faculty locate Classroom Assessment Techniques they can adapt and use to assess how well they are achieving their teaching and learning goals; and (3) to provide a starting point for discussion of teaching and learning goals among colleagues.