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Online Education in Community Colleges: Access, School Success, and Labor-Market Outcomes
(2014)
Chapter 1 provides the first evidence on the effect of online education on labor-market outcomes. I employ an individual-fixed-effects estimation strategy using data on over 100,000 community-college enrollees and show ...
Analysis of inquiry materials to explain complexity of chemical reasoning in physical chemistry students’ argumentation
(Springer, Science and Technology Education LibraryWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-12)
One aim of inquiry activities in science education is to promote students’ participation in the practices used to build scientific knowledge by providing opportunities to engage in scientific discourse. However, many factors ...
Examining student work for evidence of teacher uptake of educative curriculum materials
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2015-08)
The purpose of this study was to identify evidence in student work of teachers' uptake of educative features in educative curriculum materials. These are features in curriculum materials designed with the specific intent ...
Essays on the Labor Market Transitions in Taiwan.
(2014)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies how the expansion in post-secondary education in 1990-2000 affected the university wage premium in Taiwan. We find that the university wage premium ...
“What comes to mind when you think of science? The perfumery!”: Documenting science‐related cultural learning pathways across contexts and timescales
(SpringerWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-03)
In this paper, we explore the details of one youth's science‐related learning in‐ and out‐of‐school at the time of her participation in an ethnography of youth science and technology learning across contexts and over time. ...
Discipline‐centered post‐secondary science education research: Understanding university level science learning
(Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of TeachingWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-08)
Interactive creative problem solving
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996)
A set creative problem‐solving tools for instructional purposes is discussed. The tools include a problem‐solving text which presents the heuristic, a set of slides in electronic form that can be used to enhance classroom ...
Vicher: A virtual reality based educational module for chemical reaction engineering
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996)
Virtual reality has the potential to be a powerful new tool in engineering education by bringing experience‐based learning to all students, addressing the needs of students with alternate learning styles, and providing ...
Discipline‐centered post‐secondary science education research: Distinctive targets, challenges and opportunities
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Grune and Stratton, 2014-08)
Visualizing biological data in museums: Visitor learning with an interactive tree of life exhibit
(ACM PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2016-08)
In this study, we investigate museum visitor learning and engagement at an interactive visualization of an evolutionary tree of life consisting of over 70,000 species. The study was conducted at two natural history museums ...