dc.creator | Ero-Tolliver, Isi A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T21:09:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-03-27 | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-03-27 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-03142013-172105 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10768 | |
dc.description.abstract | This interdisciplinary project involved both biomedical research and science education research. I explored the learning opportunities and commonalities between learners in two different environments: a biomedical research laboratory and an elementary classroom. I analyzed my work as a graduate student, who performed benchside research on an enzyme called peroxidasin, and I compared the learning experience with that of elementary students who learned about the process of decomposition of organic materials. I learned that the commonality between myself and the elementary students was the practice of modeling as a form of understanding scientific phenomenon. Overall, this interdisciplinary plan of study helped me to gain a deeper understanding of biological science through formal coursework, and by conducting research in the department of medicine, and a deeper understanding of how students learn science as a graduate research assistant in the Peabody Science Education department. Most importantly, I gained an insight about modeling as an approach for biomedical investigations and for translating knowledge of biology to elementary students. I conclude that scientists as science classroom teachers and/or a partnership between scientists and classroom teachers is needed in the modern classroom in order to create lessons, curriculum, and standards that engage the students with hands-on level that involves reading, modeling and questioning/debating, activities that are beyond that of traditional memorization and recall for descriptive test questions. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | Modeling | |
dc.subject | Peroxidasin | |
dc.subject | Dimer Formation | |
dc.subject | Sulfilimine Bond | |
dc.subject | Decomposition | |
dc.subject | Matrix Biology | |
dc.title | Model-Based Reasoning: A Commonality Between Scientific Investigation and Science Education | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Wonder Drake | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Richard Milner | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Leona Schauble | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Virginia Shepherd | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Richard Lehrer | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Interdisciplinary | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2015-03-27 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2015-03-27 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Billy G. Hudson | |