July, 2004, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the New England Space Science Initiative in Education hosted "Cosmos in the Classroom", a 3-day conference at Tufts University devoted to the teaching of introductory astronomy for non-science majors. About 200 instructors from around the country attended from a broad range of institutions, including many community colleges.
This 390 page loose-leaf notebook includes all of the handouts and papers from the meeting Cosmos in the Classroom 2004: A Hands-on Symposium on Teaching Introductory Astronomy. Find out how to engage your students during lectures, use technology in astronomy education, create inquiry-based, in-class activities, and use the planetarium in teaching astronomy.
We've included below a sample list, from our table of contents, of the 68 papers included in this book. The full Table of Contents can be reviewed as well as the original meeting program.
Table of Contents Excerpt:
A. Astronomy Education Research and the Introductory Astronomy Classroom
The Astronomy Diagnostic Test: Guidelines and the Test
The Use of Personal Responder Devices to Assess Student Understanding, and Student Beliefs about their Effectiveness, in Astro 101 -- Erin Dokter (University of Arizona), et al.
Insights from a Survey of Astronomy Instructors in Community and Other Teaching-Oriented Colleges in the U.S. -- Andrew Fraknoi (A.S.P. and Foothill College)
Probing the Effectiveness of the Conventional Introductory Astronomy Lecture -- Edward Prather, Timothy Slater, and Janelle Bailey (University of Arizona)
Effects of Collaborative Learning on Communication Apprehension, Class Satisfaction, and Academic Achievement -- Myung-Hyun Rhee, Sug-Whan Kim, Eun-Joo Kim, Joohan Kim (Yonsei University, Korea)
Utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognition to Develop Constructivist Methodologies for Teaching Astronomy -- Brock Schroeder (Olivet Nazarine University)
