Using Decoding the Disciplines and Students as Partners to Explore Student Graph Reading
die hochschullehre 39/2025
In this study, we employed two disparate approaches - Students as Partners (SaP) and Decoding the Disciplines (DtD) - to deepen our understanding of how undergraduate students read graphs. Engaging SaP means including student investigators as equal contributors in a collaborative research project. DtD involves interviewing faculty members to uncover the implicit mental processes that they utilize when doing critical disciplinary thinking. Specifically, our (a faculty and student team) goal was to adapt DtD for use by student interviewers with student interviewees. We describe the steps students report that they take in graph reading, which has been identified as a "bottleneck." Many students indicated that they think of graphs as self-explanatory images and that reading them is not a process. We contrast these steps with those that have been described by faculty. This project demonstrated that both SaP and DtD are powerful approaches for exploring mental processes in non-experts.
weitere Infos
Pelnar, H. & Cameron, E. L. (2025). Using Decoding the Disciplines and students as partners to explore student graph reading. die hochschullehre, year 11/2025. DOI: 10.3278/HSL2539W.
Bibliografische Angaben
- Reihe: die hochschullehre
- Band: 16
- Auflage: 1
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.05.2025
- Umfang: 13 Seiten
- Artikelnr: HSL2539W
- DOI (E-Paper): 10.3278/HSL2539W
- Imprint: wbv Publikation
- Sprache: Englisch
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