{"pk":27931,"title":"From Middle School to Graduate School: Combining Conceptual and Simulation Modeling for Making Science Learning Easier","subtitle":null,"abstract":"MILA-S is an interactive open learning environment for sci-entific modeling (Joyner, Goel, & Papin, 2014). It enablesstudents to build conceptual models of ecological phenom-ena, evaluate them through simulation, and revise the modelsas needed. MILA-S automatically spawns simulations fromthe conceptual models, making modeling easier for the stu-dent. Earlier work had described the use of MILA-S in middleschool. In this paper, we report an experiment on the use ofMILA-S in two college-level classes. In one class, we foundthat almost half of the students showed improved understand-ing of scientific modeling; in the other class, about two thirdsof the students showed enhanced understanding.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"education; ecology; learning; modeling; science"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30310806","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Akshay","middle_name":"","last_name":"Agarwal","name_suffix":"","institution":"IBM Almaden Research Center","department":""},{"first_name":"Taylor","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hartman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Microsoft","department":""},{"first_name":"Ashok","middle_name":"","last_name":"Goel","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Tech","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27931/galley/17569/download/"}]}