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Inquiry-Based Learning & Productive Failure ✕ Clear filters
Tuesday, June 16 · 5 sessions

2:30 PM

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Short Paper · ALP 1120

Learning processes in Higher education

Short papers on learning processes in higher education, spanning engineering improvisation under uncertainty, support for first-generation biology students, and curiosity and metacognition in productive failure. Others examine primary source projects in undergraduate math and fair measurement of metacognitive regulation in online STEM.

Inquiry-Based Learning & Productive Failure in a talk
5 talks

4:30 PM

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Long Paper · ALP 1100

Analyzing Student Explanations

Researchers analyze how students articulate and develop their reasoning across science and math, drawing on knowledge-in-pieces and responsive teaching to trace intuitive resources in electromagnetism and evolution. The session also covers participation in optional self-explanation tasks and NGSS-aligned formative assessments that make first graders' life-science reasoning visible.

Inquiry-Based Learning & Productive Failure in a talk
4 talks
Short Paper · ALP 1120

Agency, Equity, and Social Justice in Learning Sciences

Short papers on agency, equity, and social justice in learning, including epistemic engagement in multilingual science, rule-breaking as a design affordance, and frameworks for hands-on open science in K-5. Other talks trace racialized assemblages in AP biology, recognition for minoritized STEM instructors, and infrastructuring for climate justice in making.

Inquiry-Based Learning & Productive Failure in a talk
6 talks
Short Paper · ALP 2700

Complex Systems

Short papers applying complex-systems and network perspectives to learning, from higher-order network analysis of PISA data to a complexity-informed model for educating creators. Other talks examine students' difficulties with dynamic equilibrium, systems thinking via the Venus flytrap, online course ecologies, and causal reasoning through drawing.

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Long Paper · ALP 3600

Data Literacy and Computational Thinking

Long papers on data literacy and computational thinking, from comparing how students engage data practices in agricultural STEM to exploring spatiotemporal data through a space-time cube interface. Additional work operationalizes epistemic data agency at a data-storytelling camp and uses paper-based aids to support computational problem-solving with robotics.

Inquiry-Based Learning & Productive Failure in a talk
4 talks