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Video games and the future of learning

after-school settings

Halverson R, Shaffer DW, Squire KR.
GSID: F5kQ_bRQLhMJ
DW Shaffer, KR Squire, R Halverson… - Phi delta …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com

COMPUTERS ARE changing our world: how we work, how we shop, how we entertain ourselves, how we communicate, how we engage in poli-tics, how we care for our health …

Teaching and assessing engineering design thinking with virtual internships and epistemic network analysis

engineering education

Arastoopour G, Shaffer DW, Swiecki Z.
GSID: 0jkIb_4kyCkJ
G Arastoopour, DW Shaffer, Z Swiecki… - International Journal …, 2016 - vtb.engr.wisc.edu

An engineering workforce of sufficient size and quality is essential for addressing significant global challenges such as climate change, world hunger, and energy demand. Future …

Measuring social identity development in epistemic games

informal learning

Arastoopour G, Shaffer DW.
GSID: 7U9BMhYozFMJ
G Arastoopour, DW Shaffer - 2013 - repository.isls.org

Learning is an inherently social process and is most effective when it is situated. Situated learning is modeled in communities of practice when new members begin their initiation into …

Mathematics and virtual culture: An evolutionary perspective on technology and mathematics education

technology education

Shaffer DW.
GSID: 7yHFBuLMOo4J
DW Shaffer, JJ Kaput - Educational studies in Mathematics, 1998 - Springer

… These changes will have important consequences for mathematics education in coming decades. In particular, we argue that mathematics education in a virtual culture should strive to give students generative fluency to learn varieties of representational systems, provide …

On the development of human representational competence from an evolutionary point of view

technology education

Shaffer DW.
GSID: VPERl9T81o4J
JJ Kaput, DW Shaffer - Symbolizing, modeling and tool use in mathematics …, 2002 - Springer

Recent work by the evolutionary psychologist Merlin Donald (1991) argues that human cognition has developed across evolutionary time through a series of four distinct stages …

A course-based research experience: how benefits change with increased investment in instructional time

Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity AND Program Evaluation

Alvarez CJ, Shaffer CD.
GSID: czO1zXBPwugJ
CD Shaffer, CJ Alvarez, AE Bednarski… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2014 - Am Soc Cell Biol

There is widespread agreement that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs should provide undergraduates with research experience. Practical issues and limited resources, however, make this a challenge. We have developed a bioinformatics project that provides a course-based research experience...

A simulation-based approach for increasing women in engineering

Theoretical frames STEM

Arastoopour G, Chesler N, Shaffer DW.
GSID: IO74hCszr24J
G Arastoopour, N Chesler, DW Shaffer - 2013 - repository.isls.org

… Using epistemic frames as a theoretical framework, we propose that more women would remain in the field if they had authentic engineering experiences. To test this hypothesis, we …

Track A. Biomaterials and Biocompatibility 1.

Biomedizinische Technik. Biomedical engineering

Zaatreh S, Haffner D, Pasold J, Kreikemeyer B, Mittelmeier W, Podbielski A, Quandt E, Bader R.
PMID: 26360467
Biomed Tech (Berl). 2015 Sep;60:S1-30. doi: 10.1515/bmt-2015-5000.

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Biking practices and preferences in a lower income, primarily minority neighborhood: Learning what residents want.

Preventive medicine reports

Lusk AC, Anastasio A, Shaffer N, Wu J, Li Y.
PMID: 28879069
Prev Med Rep. 2017 Jan 20;7:232-238. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.01.006. eCollection 2017 Sep.

This paper examines if, in a lower-income minority neighborhood, bicycling practices and bicycle-environment preferences of Blacks and Hispanics were different from Whites. During the summer of 2014, surveys were mailed to 1537 households near a proposed cycle track on...

The Relationship of Living Environment with Behavioral and Fitness Outcomes by Sex: an Exploratory Study in College-aged Students.

International journal of exercise science

Shaffer K, Bopp M, Papalia Z, Sims D, Bopp CM.
PMID: 28515831
Int J Exerc Sci. 2017 May 01;10(3):330-339. eCollection 2017.

Although physical activity (PA) is associated with several health benefits, there is a marked decline during college years, which is an influential period for the development of health behaviors. This study examined the relationship of neighborhood and living environment...

Congenital Absence of the Right Common Iliac Artery.

Radiology case reports

Dabydeen DA, Shabashov A, Shaffer K.
PMID: 27303500
Radiol Case Rep. 2015 Nov 06;3(1):47. doi: 10.2484/rcr.v3i1.47. eCollection 2008.

Cases of vascular anomalies of the iliac and femoral vessels are rare. We report a complete absence of the right common iliac artery in a 21-year-old woman, incidentally discovered by CT during the work-up for acute abdominal pain. A...

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Presenting as Severe Headache in a Young Adult.

Radiology case reports

Alcorn SR, Sorel MA, Auerbach S, Shaffer K.
PMID: 27303522
Radiol Case Rep. 2015 Dec 07;3(2):172. doi: 10.2484/rcr.v3i2.172. eCollection 2008.

A 27-year-old male with a positive family history of abdominal aortic aneurysm presented to his primary care physician and ultimately to the emergency department with the worst headache of his life and hypertension. An aneurysm of the right internal...

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