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Title

iSTAR First Light: Characterizing Astronomy Education Research Dissertations In The iSTAR Database

Abstract

There is widespread interest among discipline-based science education researchers to situate their research in the existing scholarly literature base. Unfortunately, traditional approaches to conducting a thorough literature review are unduly hindered in astronomy education research as the venues in which scholarship is reported are fragmented and widely dispersed across journals of varying disciplines. The international STudies of Astronomy education Research (iSTAR) online repository is the result of a concerted international community effort to collect and categorize existing research from peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations/theses, and grey literature. In a “first
light” survey of over 300 U.S. dissertations, we find: (i) work in AER dates back to 1923; (ii) the number of extant dissertations is far greater than anticipated; (iii) research methods definitions have evolved; and (iv) most work has studied participants’ broad knowledge rather than specific learning targets. The surprisingly wide breadth of rarely cited research motivates us to collect more AER from across international and cross-disciplinary sources.

Date

01/01/2016

Type of Publication

Article

Author(s)

Slater, Stephanie J. | Tatge, Coty B. | Bretones, Paulo S. | Slater, Timothy F. | Schleigh, Sharon P. | McKinnon, David H. | Heyer, Inge

Content

No Astronomy Content

Construct

Academic Social/Discourse

Methodology

Blank

Research Setting

Other | Research Facility

Target Group

Other

Institution(s)

Center for Astronomy & Physics Education Research | University of Wyoming | Sao Carlos Federal University | East Carolina University | Edith Cowan University | Loyola Marymount

Journal Name

Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education (JAESE)

Peer-Reviewed Status

Yes

Publisher

The Clute Institute

Volume

3

Issue Number

2

ISSN

2374-6254, 2374-6246

Resource Type

Historical | Literature Review

Nation(s) of Study

United States of America | Brazil | Australia

Language

English

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