The study focused on the development of an assessment tool to aid the researchers in understanding how engagement in the classroom can lead to a transformative experience. High school biology students (N = 198) of two instructors took a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up test five weeks following a unit on natural selection. To determine the causes and impacts on learning, the instructors measured for transformative experience, achievement orientation, science identity, basic knowledge, conceptual change, and transfer. The results showed that most of the students surveyed were on the lower end of an engagement continuum; their engagement was largely confined to the classroom context. However, those students who identified more strongly with science and wanted to develop competence in biology were more likely to report higher engagement in transformative experience. In addition, transformative experience was a predictor of transfer at the 5-week test, indicating that ability to transfer may develop over time. This study tested and confirmed the efficacy of their measures, but the researchers believe it to be a small sample size and understandably want to expand the measure to additional instructors.
The study focused on the development of an assessment tool to aid the researchers in understanding how engagement in the classroom can lead to a transformative experience. High school biology students (N = 198) of two instructors took a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up test five weeks following a unit on natural selection. To determine the causes and impacts on learning, the instructors measured for transformative experience, achievement orientation, science identity, basic knowledge, conceptual change, and transfer. The results showed that most of the students surveyed were on the lower end of an engagement continuum; their engagement was largely confined to the classroom context. However, those students who identified more strongly with science and wanted to develop competence in biology were more likely to report higher engagement in transformative experience. In addition, transformative experience was a predictor of transfer at the 5-week test, indicating that ability to transfer may develop over time. This study tested and confirmed the efficacy of their measures, but the researchers believe it to be a small sample size and understandably want to expand the measure to additional instructors.
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