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Many students are disempowered in physics classes finding them to be more difficult, unpleasant, narrow, and masculine when compared to other subjects. Such disempowerment can lead students to limit their engagement. This study explores how physics teachers can help students engage with the material and develop their physics identities by obscuring...
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... Notably, putting children in a position of power as judges can encourage participation, as children feel a responsibility to pay close attention and provide a thoughtful evaluation (Mervis, 2010). Furthermore, previous research in educational contexts has suggested that using positional cues to de-emphasize an instructor's authority can promote STEM identification for marginalized students (Hazari et al., 2014); this role reversal in Flipped Science Fairs may similarly help encourage children to see themselves as valued contributors in STEM. ...
Flipped Science Fairs put power directly into children’s hands, inviting them to judge graduate student science fair posters. At the fair, graduate students practice communicating their research to a young audience, while children have the opportunity to see themselves as valued contributors in science. Here, we present a model for a walk-in Flipped Science Fair, designed in partnership between nine Virginia Tech graduate students and the Roanoke City Public Libraries (RPL; Roanoke, VA, USA). At our event, 27 graduate students presented posters about their research, with an audience of over 250 community members. We found that hosting the Flipped Science Fair at a public library lowered barriers to entry for participants and allowed us to reach an audience further from the university. While judging posters, children learned about a wide range of leading-edge research and had meaningful interactions with diverse scientists in small-group settings. Conversely, for graduate students, this event and associated training workshops provided an opportunity to practice communicating their research to a new audience. Throughout this article, we share our experience as graduate students collaboratively conceptualizing and organizing this community-oriented Flipped Science Fair with public library partners.
Disciplinary identity is widely studied in physics (and science) education research. Great attention has been devoted to studying the role of sociocultural factors in students' career choices and persistence, such as students' participation or gender differences. However, few works within the literature have investigated the role of the cognitive-epistemic core of scientific disciplines in identity work. In the first section of the paper we discuss the state of the art about science-identity. Then, we discuss the theoretical frameworks that informed the construction of our idea of epistemic-personal consonance/dissonance: the "Reconceptualized FRA to NOS framework" and the "Model of Educational Reconstruction". In section 4 we introduce a qualitative analysis of data collected within a classroom activity held in 2021 and discuss it according to our Research Question. The findings show that students used complex systems epistemology as scaffolding for the expression of personal needs; they reconceptualized personal demands by borrowing epistemological structures and practices of complexity as tools to change perspectives about personal issues. The findings of this first dataset call for the need for further data to analyze and enrich the discussion around physics epistemology and identity.
