Assessing Understanding of the Learning Cycle: The ULC |
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Authors: | Edmund A Marek Steven J Maier and Florence McCann |
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Institution: | (1) Science Education Center, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-0260, USA;(2) Department of Natural Science, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Alva, OK 73717, USA |
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Abstract: | An 18-item, multiple choice, 2-tiered instrument designed to measure understanding of the learning cycle (ULC) was developed
and field-tested from the learning cycle test (LCT) of Odom and Settlage (Journal of Science Teacher Education, 7, 123–142, 1996). All question sets of the LCT were modified to some degree and 5 new sets were added, resulting in the ULC.
The ULC measures (a) understandings and misunderstandings of the learning cycle, (b) the learning cycle’s association with
Piaget’s (Biology and knowledge theory: An essay on the relations between organic regulations and cognitive processes, 1975) theory of mental functioning, and (c) applications of the learning cycle. The resulting ULC instrument was evaluated
for internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha, yielding a coefficient of .791. |
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Keywords: | Learning cycle Assessment Instrument development |
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