Hoban, Susan and Keating, John and Sachs, Joel and Laughlin, Daniel and Yesha, Yelena (2003) Science Investigation System for Telescopes in Education Research. In: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003. IEEE, pp. 1-7. ISBN 0769518745

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Abstract

The Virtual Telescopes in Education (VTIE) project, is providing tools for teaching astronomy in K-12 classrooms using remotely controlled telescopes. VTIE's main goal is to promote scientific literacy, including a conceptual understanding of the physical world and the scientific process itself. This paper describes an essential component of VTIE: the scientific investigation system for telescopes in education research (SISTER). Students are aided in the preparation of their observing proposal by a glossary tool for dynamically inducing hyperlinks tailored to a student's reading level, a proposal generation interface to guide them through the process of formulating a scientific question, and a paper writing tool to report the results of the analysis of the data. In this paper we present the architecture and methodology for SISTER.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Virtual Telescopes in Education; science investigation system; astronomy teaching; remotely controlled telescopes; scientific investigation system for telescopes in education research (SISTER);
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
Item ID:	8676
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2003.1173738
Depositing User:	Dr. John Keating
Date Deposited:	24 Aug 2017 14:45
Publisher:	IEEE
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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