{"id":207943,"date":"2026-02-16T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/?p=207943"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:04:25","slug":"doctoral-students-and-faculty-make-contributions-to-research-on-systems-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/2026\/02\/16\/doctoral-students-and-faculty-make-contributions-to-research-on-systems-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral students and faculty make contributions to research on systems thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doctoral students Amanda Provost and Gabriella Migliore, together with Dr. Nicole Panorkou<\/a>, have published an open-access article in Education Sciences showcasing their research on students\u2019 systems thinking. Their study titled Developing Middle School Students\u2019 Systems Thinking in Earth Science Through Dynamic Simulations: The Case of the Rock Cycle<\/em><\/a> presents a detailed framework of how students reason about the rock cycle, extending prior work by identifying specific sub-components. They also introduce an emerging framework for supporting systems thinking through thoughtfully designed simulations and questioning sequences. Together, these frameworks offer guidance for developing instructional modules aimed at strengthening students\u2019 systems thinking in earth science contexts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doctoral students Amanda Provost and Gabriella Migliore, together with Dr. Nicole Panorkou, have published an open-access article in Education Sciences showcasing their research on students\u2019 systems thinking. Their study titled Developing Middle School Students\u2019 Systems Thinking in Earth Science Through Dynamic Simulations: The Case of the Rock Cycle presents a detailed framework of how students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":207944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207945,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207943\/revisions\/207945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics-education-phd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}