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On the problem of astronomy education in Ukraine [PDF]
Widening of astronomy learning in schools and pedagogical universities is proposed. It’s necessary to pay attention to between-subjects links during the process of astronomy teachers’ preparation: astronomy and mathematics, physics, biology, ecology philosophy.
Iryna Koval
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Astronomy in the system of university education [PDF]
Three aspects of astronomical university education are considered: such as preparation of astronomers-professionals, teaching astronomy as a part of scientific and professional specialists preparation, teaching astronomy as an element of cultural ...
Yu. V. Aleksandrov, V. A. Zakhozhay
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Peer-review Platform for Astronomy Education Activities [PDF]
Hundreds of thousands of astronomy education activities exist, but their discoverability and quality is highly variable. The web platform for astronomy education activities, astroEDU, presented in this paper tries to solve these issues. Using the familiar peer-review workflow of scientific publications, astroEDU is improving standards of quality ...
Pedro Russo+3 more
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Astronomy Data, Virtual Observatory and Education [PDF]
We shall present with examples how analysis of astronomy data can be used for an educational purpose to train students in methods of data analysis, statistics, programming skills and research problems. Special reference will be made to our IAU-OAD project `Astronomy from Archival Data' where we are in the process of building a repository of ...
Priya Hasan, S. N. Hasan
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Astronomy Education Research: Impact and Future Directions [PDF]
The goal of this talk is to reflect about the achievements and challenges in Astronomy Education Research (AER). First, the answers given to questions asked of members of the IAU Division C’s Commission 1 and Working Group on Theory and Methods in ...
Bretones Paulo S.
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Spatial thinking in astronomy education research
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Astronomy Education Research.] Multiple studies show that spatial thinking skills contribute to students’ performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
Merryn Cole+3 more
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AMATURE ASTRONOMY AND ASTRONOMY EDUCATION IN INDIA
In India, astronomy has been studied from the beginning of civilization. The word amateur means involvement in work for pleasure rather than as a profesion. So, amateur astronomers, in many places, prefer to be called non-professional astronomers. In India, the history of amateur astronomy is quite bright. From the Puranic age astronomy was studied for
SOMENATH CHATTERJEE
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Reading the Sky and The Spiral of Teaching and Learning in Astronomy [PDF]
This theoretical paper introduces a new way to view and characterize teaching and learning astronomy. It describes a framework, based on results from empirical data, analyzed through standard qualitative research methodology, in which a theoretical model for vital competencies of learning astronomy is proposed: Reading the Sky.
Urban Eriksson
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Astronomy Education in Universities of China [PDF]
AbstractIn China, more than twenty universities have astronomy education and research work. In four key universities, a complete series of educational programs of undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral levels has been formed. After four-year study at the undergraduate stage, students can be enrolled in master degree specialties. Three years
Yuhua Tang, Cheng Fang
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Resource Letter RBAI-1: Research-Based Assessment Instruments in Physics and Astronomy [PDF]
Citation: Madsen, A., McKagan, S. B., & Sayre, E. C. (2017). Resource Letter RBAI-1: Research-Based Assessment Instruments in Physics and Astronomy. American Journal of Physics, 85(4), 245-264.
Madsen, A.+2 more
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