Paper Info
Title
Taking it to the streets: The case for modeling in the geosciences undergraduate curriculum
Abstract
The United States faces a crisis in education: a dire shortage of students sufficiently prepared in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines to competitively enter the workforce (National Education Technology Plan, 2010). At the same time, there is increasing demand for well-trained geoscientists in a variety of careers related to the environment and natural resources. Many efforts, including the recently released Earth Science and Climate Literacy Principles, seek to promote better Earth science education, as well as to strengthen the Earth science literacy of the entire US population. Yet even those undergraduate students who choose to major in geology or related geoscience disciplines rarely acquire sufficient quantitative skills to be truly competitive graduate students or professionals. Experience with modeling, during their undergraduate careers, could greatly increase the quantitative literacy of geoscience majors and help them appreciate the real world applicability of mathematics and computational methods in their future careers in the geosciences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.cageo.2011.09.006
Computers & Geosciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
geoscience major,quantitative literacy,earth science,geosciences undergraduate curriculum,climate literacy principles,undergraduate student,better earth science education,earth science literacy,undergraduate career,sufficient quantitative skill,related geoscience,modeling
Literacy,Educational technology,Population,Workforce,Computer science,Natural resource,Curriculum,Mathematics education,Economic shortage
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
53,
0098-3004
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karen Campbell100.34
Irina Overeem291.92
Maureen Berlin300.34