12098s

12098s

Student Presentation (20 minutes)

Nan Ketpura-Ching, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, nankc@hawaii.edu Davilla Riddle, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, driddle@hawaii.edu Kevin Takayama, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, ktakayam@hawaii.edu
 * Hybrid Mini Course to Increase Quantitative Literacy in Science Education**

There is an increased need for students to demonstrate quantitative literacy - be able to analyze and interpret data. This mini hybrid course aims to teach quantitative literacy concepts and skills necessary to help students make sense of real-world situations. Ninth grade students in Biology will go through the steps of collecting, analyzing and presenting data from a given set of scientific data in population ecology. By the end of the course, students will be able to describe how ecosystems are affected by changes in the environment and show quantitative literacy by creating basic tables and graphs from a given set of scientific data in population ecology. This mini course aims to provide a solution for increasing quantitative literacy via online instruction delivery using Laulima and Wikispaces. Upon initial peer review, this mini course in qualitative literacy in population ecology has received mostly positive feedback. Some suggestions are to promote ease of reading and layout of pages by increasing more white space. This mini course will be implemented as part of a summer Biology course.

Novice STEM, e-learning, hybrid, science, ecology