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10 Apr 2024 • Journal Article • IEEE Transactions on Education
Assessing Engineering Students’ Systems Thinking and Modeling Based on Their Online Learning
AbstractContribution: Model-based learning improves systems thinking (ST) based on students’ prior knowledge and gender. Relations were found between textual, visual, and mixed question types and student achievements. Background: ST is essential to judicious decision-making and problem-solving. Undergraduate students can be taught to apply better ST, and analysis of their online
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10 Apr 2024 • Journal Article • Journal of Research in Science Teaching
Epistemic networks and the social nature of public engagement with science
AbstractThis theoretical paper focuses on the social processes of public engagement with science and their implications for science education. The core of our argument is that science education should help people become better at evaluating, using, and curating their epistemic networks to make personal and civic decisions and to understand the natural world. In this context
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28 Mar 2024 • Journal Article • Brain Research
Localized alterations in cortical thickness and sulcal depth of the cingulo-opercular network in relation to lower reading fluency skills in children with dyslexia
AbstractThe traditional models of reading development describe how language processing and word decoding contribute to reading comprehension and how impairments in word decoding, a defining feature of dyslexia, affect reading comprehension outcomes. However, these models do not include word and sentence reading (contextual reading) fluency, both of which engage executive
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25 Mar 2024 • Journal Article • Communications of the ACM
Using Data Science to Predict How Rituals Will Evolve
AbstractOrit Hazzan and Avital Binah-Pollak consider how the data science perspective helped to predict the transformation of Israel’s 2023 social protest. Think about your most personal ritualistic event—walking your dog, grocery shopping, or a weekly meetup with your friends. Most likely it takes place in the same place, close to home, with the same people, and at a certain
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18 Mar 2024 • Journal Article • Scientia in Educatione
How Learners Perceive Inter-Disciplinary Dialogic Science Related Learning Experiences: A Mixed-Method Study
AbstractWell-designed, dialogic, and interdisciplinary learning opportunities in science related disciplines can promote many educational goals. The difficulty lies in providing these opportunities in schools. Can out-of-school focus days fill the void? Here, we performed a mixed methods study to discover how middle school learners perceive focus days that included dialogic
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15 Mar 2024 • Conference Paper • SIGCSE 2024: Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2
Generative AI in Computer Science Education
AbstractGenerative AI has the potential to become disruptive technology for computer science education. Therefore, computer science educators must be familiar with the threats they should deal with and with the opportunities that generative-AI opens for the computer science education community. In the workshop, we explore the integration of several generative-AI tools and
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11 Mar 2024 • Journal Article • Journal of Science Communication
Science communication objectives and actual practices of science news websites as a showcase for gaps between theory and practice
AbstractThis study contributes to the growing body of science communication research showing gaps between theory and practice objectives, focusing on one particular understudied and emerging science communication innovation.The objectives and practices of four Israeli science news websites were analyzed considering three science communication models: “Dissemination”, “Dialogue”
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Mar 2024 • Journal Article • Procedia Computer Science
Student learning of engineering systems through simulation-based design using Onshape and Blender
AbstractThis study examines how the introductory engineering course can engage students in learning Industry 4.0 concepts and enhance their digital technology skills through simulation-based design activities. The students used cloud-based design and simulation tools to resolve a system operation problem. They examined the motion of a digital model of a satellite under
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26 Feb 2024 • Journal Article • Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education
Fostering pre-service teachers’ attention to mathematical objects: The realization tree mediator as a teaching representation
AbstractUsing teaching representations is one of the common means for preparing pre-service mathematics teachers (PSTs) to learn how to teach mathematics meaningfully. However, turning PSTs’ attention to the mathematical objects that students engage with during the lesson is a challenging pursuit. This paper suggests using the Realization Tree Mediator (RTM) as a visual teaching
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21 Feb 2024 • Journal Article • Public Understanding of Science
The four “R” s: Strategies for tailoring science for religious publics and their prices
AbstractA recent wave of studies has diversified science communication by emphasizing gender, race, and disability. In this article, we focus on the understudied lens of religion. Based on an analysis of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) science journalism and its readership, we identify four main strategies for tailoring science, which we call the four “R”s—removing, reclaiming, remodeling
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