Science investigation system for telescopes in education research

Author

Hoban, Susan ; Sachs, Joel ; Laughlin, Darren ; Yesha, Yelena ; Keating, John

Author_Institution

Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Jan. 2003

Abstract

The Virtual Telescopes in Education (VTIE) project, is providing tools for teaching astronomy in K-12 classrooms using remotely controlled telescopes. VTIE´s main goal is to promote scientific literacy, including a conceptual understanding of the physical world and the scientific process itself. This paper describes an essential component of VTIE: the scientific investigation system for telescopes in education research (SISTER). Students are aided in the preparation of their observing proposal by a glossary tool for dynamically inducing hyperlinks tailored to a student´s reading level, a proposal generation interface to guide them through the process of formulating a scientific question, and a paper writing tool to report the results of the analysis of the data. In this paper we present the architecture and methodology for SISTER.

Keywords

astronomical telescopes; astronomy computing; computer aided instruction; physics education; portals; software tools; virtual instrumentation; K-12 classrooms; SISTER; VTIE project; Virtual Telescopes in Education; analysis report; astronomy teaching; dynamically induced hyperlinks; education research; glossary tool; paper writing tool; proposal generation interface; remotely controlled telescopes; science investigation system; Astronomy; Data analysis; Education; Educational robots; Hardware; Observatories; Proposals; Telescopes; Terminology; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2003. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1874-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2003.1173738

Filename

1173738