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2022/2023

Context in Research into the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics

Code: 43930 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
4313815 Research in Education OT 0 2

Contact

Name:
Conxita Marquez Bargallo
Email:
conxita.marquez@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)

Other comments on languages

Students will be able to use their own language through oral and written practices. The visual presentations, the teaching instruments and materials, and readings will be in catalan, spanish or english

Teachers

Neus Sanmartí Puig
Genaro Gamboa Rojas
Carme Grimalt Alvaro
Gemma Sala Sebastià

Prerequisites

None

Objectives and Contextualisation

This module tackles some of the main transversal processes related to science and mathematics education, such as practical work, school projects, ICTs for learning and communication in schools, problem solving and assessment. Having into account learnings from previous modules, the focus of this one will be on the design of context-based educational instruction that facilitates the integration of STEM areas. Emphasis will be also put on how to evaluate teaching proposals taking into consideration a design-based research approach. The following contents will be discussed:

  • Contexts for integrating science and maths teaching
  • Learning to solve mathematical problems in context
  • Inquiry and practical work to teach context-based science 
  • Affordances and constraints of the use of ICTs in contextualised projects
  • Teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in relation with science and maths teaching
  • Assessment as a tool to promote contextualised science and maths teaching

Competences

  • Analyse data according to its nature and present results in accorance with the research proposals.
  • Collect research data coherently in accordance with the chosen method.
  • Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  • Communicate the research results, knowledge acquired and the implications for practice, and adapt the register to the public and formal protocols.
  • Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  • Develop professional values including ethics in educational research, in particular with respect to diversity of opinion and ways of being and doing.
  • Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
  • Plan research according to practice-related problems, taking into account theoretical advances in the field of knowledge.
  • Recognise and relate the theoretical, empirical and social aspecys of the specific field of research.
  • Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  • Use ICT in the research process, information search and management, data analysis and the dissemination and communication of results.
  • Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  • Work in teams and with teams in the same or interdisciplinary fields.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Collect data to allow an understanding of forms of communication and interaction in the classroom.
  2. Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  3. Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  4. Decide on the information and the subjects involved in the study.
  5. Define appropriate tools for analysing the nature of the data in context.
  6. Design research pertinent to problems related to science and mathematics education in context.
  7. Design strategies for collecting information.
  8. Develop professional values including ethics in educational research, in particular with respect to diversity of opinion and ways of being and doing.
  9. Identify and analyse the different theoretical frameworks of reference that guide research in the context of science and mathematics education.
  10. Identify in practice problems related to research into science and mathematics education in context.
  11. Identify problems related to specific areas of science and mathematics education and evaluate which methodological approaches allow for their solution.
  12. Identify theoretical references and evaluate their appropriateness for interpreting problems specific to science and mathematics education in context.
  13. Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
  14. Judge the importance and theoretical and social pertinence of specific research into science and mathematics education in context.
  15. Plan research taking into account the possibilities and limitations of the use of digital tools in science and mathematics teaching.
  16. Produce conclusion taking into account the objectives and research questions and the theoretical references in context in science and mathematics education.
  17. Recognise the importance of social and cultural contexts in formal and non-formal education in science and mathematics research.
  18. Recognise the main processes related to research in scientific and mathematics education in context.
  19. Relate results in accordance with their origin (sources and instruments).
  20. Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  21. Understand the main aspects of research contexts in science and mathematics education and analyse them as objects of research.
  22. Understand the possibilities and limitations of the use of digital tools in teaching science and mathematics.
  23. Use ICT in the research process, information search and management, data analysis and the dissemination and communication of results.
  24. Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  25. Work in teams and with teams in the same or interdisciplinary fields.
  26. Write research articles about research in contexts adapted to the needs of professionals in education
  27. Write scientific summaries to be presented to different audiences.

Content

  • Contextualization and interdisciplinarity in the teaching of science and mathematics.
  • Scientific model-based inquiry in relevant contexts.
  • Mathematical modeling from relevant contexts.
  • Digital tools for the teaching of science and mathematics.
  • Models of professional knowledge of the teacher and Resolution of mathematical problems in relevant contexts.
  • Formative assessment throughout the learning process of the sciences and mathematics.
  • The assessment to qualify the learning of science and mathematics.
  • The external evaluation of the teaching of science and mathematics.

Methodology

The training activity will be developed based on the following dynamics:
  • Readings of articles and document collections
  • Lectures by teachers
  • Analysis and collective discussion of articles and document collections
  • Classroom practices: problem solving / cases / exercises
  • Presentation of works
  • Tutorials

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Classroom practices 18 0.72
Lectures 18 0.72 21, 22, 8, 5, 4, 7, 16, 6, 10, 9, 11, 12, 23, 14, 15, 1, 18, 17, 27, 19, 25
Type: Supervised      
Analysis and group discussion of papers 16 0.64
Tutorials 10 0.4
Type: Autonomous      
Production of papers / group work 60 2.4
Reading papers 28 1.12

Assessment

To access the assessment, 80% of the sessions of the module will need attendance.
										
											
										
											Students' participation and involvement will be valued in the activities proposed and in the development of the work dynamics.
										
											
										
											Two evaluation activities are proposed:
  • Individual reflection paper on the proposals for improvement of the project evaluated (also based on some of the reflections in theoretical referents analyzed throughout the module)
  • Evaluation of an interdisciplinary project (including the design of a question that allows assessing students' competencies) - Presentation of the work in groups

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Evaluation of an interdisciplinary project 45% 0 0 21, 22, 8, 5, 4, 7, 16, 6, 10, 9, 11, 12, 23, 14, 15, 13, 20, 2, 3, 1, 18, 17, 27, 19, 24, 25
Individual reflection document 45% 0 0 21, 22, 8, 5, 4, 7, 16, 6, 10, 9, 11, 12, 23, 14, 15, 13, 20, 2, 3, 1, 18, 17, 26, 27, 19
Participation 10% 0 0 25

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Software

No specific software is required