EDUCATION SCIENCE OF SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSIS OF SYNCHROTRON, NASA, AND NOAA DATA IN POST-COVID ERA

EDUCATION SCIENCE OF SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSIS OF SYNCHROTRON, NASA, AND NOAA DATA IN POST-COVID ERA
Sunil Dehipawala, City University of New York Queensborough Community College, United States of America / Tak Cheung, City University of New York Queensborough Community College, United States of America

(Presented at the International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (IHSES) which took place on April 16-19, 2024, in San Francisco, CA, USA (https://www.2024.ihses.net/) and at the International Conference on Life Sciences, Engineering and Technology (ILSET) (https://www.2024.ilset.net/) (https://www.2024.ictels.net/) organized by the International Society for Technology, Education and Science (ISTES) http://www.istes.org).

The education science (or pedagogy based on scientific principles) of the learning of spectroscopy analysis in terms of critical thinking was examined in a community college setting with high school outreach and senor college transfer students enrolling in courses and/or projects. The most important discovery of science in the 20th Century was the atomic structure through spectroscopy analysis with applications to data in National Facilities such as Synchrotron Labs, NASA and NOAA. The capability to include online-delivery-ready in post-COVID era is an important element. The critical thinking model of Leed University on problem solving posed on YouTube (2020) was found to be effective in the pedagogy of the learning of spectroscopy as problem solving when comparing the pre and post assessment data. In comparison, the NASA data was found to be the better example for the understanding stage, while the Synchrotron Lab data was a better example for the evaluation stage. The five strategies to further improve critical thinking of the “BBC Ideas/The Open University” posed on YouTube (2021) was also validated with positive assessment data. In comparison, the embrace-nuances strategy was found to be best illustrated by the NOAA data. A best practice of education science in which a single student project would spend 25% effort on data from all the three National Facilities, namely, Synchrotron Labs, NASA, and NOAA, is proposed to foster critical thinking development. The University of Hull detailed description of critical thinking, posed in seven YouTube videos (2020), and the transference of critical thinking education science to (and from) a Physics mechanics introductory course are also discussed.