Science Skills Metrics and Assessment

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20500758
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: CHARLES Wiz 横浜国立大学, 教育人間科学部, 講師 (60407377)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2011
• Keywords: Science Education / P2P Collaboration / Assessment / Virtual Reality / Robotics

Research Abstract

Programming robots to navigate mazes using a virtual reality environment for communication is not effective for teaching scientific reasoning. A real world task to determine how the robots functioned resulted in significantly higher numbers of hypotheses formation and warrants. Bloom's Digital Taxonomy should be used as metrics for science learning.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Measuring flow experience in an immersive virtual environment for collaborative learning (2011)
  • Author(s): Schaik, P. van, Martin, S., Vallance, M. & Wiz, C.
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the First International Virtual Environments Research Group Conference.
• [Journal Article] Learning spaces, tasks and metrics for effective communication in Second Life within the context of programming LEGO NXT Mind storms robots : Towards a framework for design and implementation (2010)
  • Author(s): Martin, S., Vallance, M., Schaik, P. van & Wiz, C.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Volume: Vol.3(1)
• [Journal Article] Designing effective spaces, tasks and metrics for communication in Second Life within the context of programming LEGO NXT Mind storms robots (2010)
  • Author(s): Vallance, M., Martin, S., Wiz, C. & Schaik, P. van
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments Volume: Vol.1(1)
• [Journal Article] Conditions for successful online collaboration (2010)
  • Author(s): Vallance, M., Towndrow, P. & Wiz, C.
  • Journal Title: Tech Trends Volume: Vol.54(1)
• [Journal Article] LEGO Mind storms for informed metrics in virtual worlds (2009)
  • Author(s): Vallance, M., Martin, S., Wiz, C. & Schaik, P. van
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction(HCI)
• [Presentation] The vocabulary load of problem solving in immersive virtual environments (2011)
  • Author(s): Wiz, C., Schaik, P. van, Vallance, M. & Martin, S.
  • Organizer: JALT CALL Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Kurume, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2011-06-05
• [Presentation] Communicative strategies in virtual reality (2011)
  • Author(s): Wiz, C.
  • Organizer: JALT PANSIG Conference. Matsumoto
  • Place of Presentation: Japan
  • Year and Date: 2011-05-22
• [Presentation] Mindstorms communication in Second Life. Association of Learning Technology (2009)
  • Author(s): Vallance, M., Martin, S., Wiz, C. & Schaik, P. van
  • Organizer: University of Manchester. Manchester
  • Place of Presentation: UK
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-09
• [Presentation] LEGO Mindstorms for informed metrics in virtual worlds. Open Festival of Interactive Technology at Microsoft (2009)
  • Author(s): Vallance, M., Martin, S., Wiz, C. & Schaik, P. van
  • Organizer: Human Computer Interaction. Cambridge University. Cambridge
  • Place of Presentation: UK
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-03
• [Presentation] Processes, outcomes and metrics for assessing synchronous and asynchronous collaboration in Virtual Worlds : A summary of Phase 1 (2009)
  • Author(s): Wiz, C., Vallance, M., Martin, S. & Schaik, P. van
  • Organizer: Report for PMI Sustainable Research Networks Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: University of Tokyo. Tokyo Japan
  • Year and Date: 2009-06-26