New submission to AERA accepted!

Drawings Count: Using Drawings to Assess Students’ Developing Understandings of
Quantified Complex Systems

Unit / Sub Unit:Division C - Learning and Instruction / Division C - Section 1d: Science

Congratulation to Ganrong (James) Fu.

Undergraduate media and science communication scholarship!

Aasiya Ali, an undergraduate student in Biology (Genetics and Biotechnology) at University of Iowa ('26), recently completed a podcast that features The Cube (Lira Learning Lab). Aasiya is part of the IINSPIRE LSAMP Quantitative Research Team, a volunteer at UIHC Volunteer Services Offices, and an undergraduate researcher in the Lira Learning Lab. 

New paper accepted on The Learning Sciences and Intellectual Humility!

Lira, M., & McElroy-Heltzel, S. Intellectual Humility and the Learning Sciences: Can Self-Reports and Behavioral Measures Coexist to Understand Civic Engagement?. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1451306.

New paper accepted on undergraduate physiology students' mechanistic reasoning!

Lira, M., Holder, K., & Gardner, S. M. (2024). Why ask why? Toward coordinating knowledge of proximate and ultimate explanations in physiology. Advances in Physiology Education.

New paper accepted on the usability of a gesture-based molecular simulation!

Kim, T., Nisar, H., Lindgren, R., Zhang, J., Tang, X., Lira, M., & Talhan, A. (2024, May). Beyond the Screen: Gestural Perspective-Taking with a Biochemistry Simulation. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6).

We are happy to announce that The Cube had 5 ICLS proceedings accepted for 2024!

Tang, X. Lindgren, R., & Lira, M. (2024). Haptic Experiences Shape Student-Generated Gestures While Learning with Computational Environments. ISLS Annual Meeting, Buffalo, New York.

Tang, X., & Lira, M. (2024). Drawing and Talk Reveal Dynamic Shifts in Students' Developing Knowledge of Complex Systems. ISLS Annual Meeting, Buffalo, New York.

Clingan-Siverly, S., Demir Lira, O.E., Stieff, M., & Lira, M. (2024). How Gesture Protects Against Failures in Spatial Problem-Solving. ISLS Annual Meeting, Buffalo, New York.

Liu, M., Rahmati, M., McElroy-Heltzel, S., & Lira, M. (2024). Transmuting Intellectual Liabilities into Assets for Engagement. ISLS Annual Meeting, Buffalo, New York.

Fu, G. & Lira, M. (2024). Coordinating Multiple Equations that Model Complex Systems. ISLS Annual Meeting, Buffalo, New York.