The Mastodon Matrix Project: An Experiment with Large-Scale Public Collaboration in Paleontological Research
| Autor: | Warren D. Allmon, James M. Sherpa, Paul G. Harnik, Peter L. Nester, Robert M. Ross, John J. Chiment, Andrew M. Goldman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Surficial geology
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Matrix (music) Public relations Education Variety (cybernetics) General partnership Scale (social sciences) ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Institution Mathematics education General Earth and Planetary Sciences Science education reform Sociology business media_common Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Geoscience Education. 51:39-47 |
| ISSN: | 2158-1428 1089-9995 |
| DOI: | 10.5408/1089-9995-51.1.39 |
| Popis: | An important long-term goal of science education reform is to involve more students in open-ended inquiry and authentic research. In making such “research partnerships” between scientists and students commonplace, it is critical to determine how to attract willing participation of a large number and variety of classrooms while achieving genuine scientific goals. Since early 2000, the Paleontological Research Institution and Cornell University have been administering a research partnership involving non-specialists in collecting and sorting fossils from sediments collected around recently excavated mastodon skeletons. This research partnership quickly drew a diversity of participants from across the country. Feedback on participation in this project has been extremely positive, and student discovery has yielded a large reference collection of small fossils that otherwise may not have been recovered. Based on feedback in surveys and letters, oral discussion, and other observations, we surmise that this proj... |
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