Petri, Alexis N. 2024. The Music of What Happens. USA: John G Neihardt State Historic Site.
A short documentary film about John Neihardt's 100-year challenge for his Altar to Courage in honor of Hugh Glass.
Publications
2024
Petri, Alexis N. 2024. “Empowering STEM Students With Disabilities through SOAR’s Inclusive Approach”. 2024.
2023
Li, You, Ye Wang, Yugyung Lee, Huan Chen, and . 2023. “Teaching Data Science through Storytelling: Improving Undergraduate Data Literacy”. Thinking Skills and Creativity 48: 101311. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101311.
This study proposes and evaluates the OCEL.AI (Open Collaborative Experiential Learning. AI) paradigm that aims at broadening participation in data science education and enhancing undergraduate students’ data literacy. The core of the paradigm is the “Tell Stories” approach. This approach applies the 5W+1H (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How) conceptual schema of stories as a transdisciplinary language for data science education for STEM and non-STEM majors. Accordingly, this study reported findings from the OCEL.AI project that implemented and evaluated the paradigm. A field experiment, in addition to classroom observations, was conducted to compare the learning outcomes of students in data science competence, appreciation, career motivation, life-long willingness to learn, and self-efficacy in data science between the treatment group and the control group. The results showed that the OCEL.AI paradigm improved undergraduates’ data science competence and career motivation despite majors or gender.
2022
Chen, Huan, Ye Wang, You Li, Yugyung Lee, and Alexis N. 2022. “Computer Science and Non-Computer Science Faculty Members’ Perception on Teaching Data Science via an Experiential Learning Platform”. Educ Inf Technol.
2020
Petri, Alexis N, Ronda J Jenson, Arden D Day, and . 2020. “Participatory Modeling With Fuzzy Cognitive Maps: Studying Veterans’ Perspectives on Access and Participation in Higher Education”. In Innovations in Collaborative Modeling, Porter, W.F., Zhao, J., Olabisi, L.S., & McNall, M. (Ed.). Michigan State UP.
2018
Petri, Alexis N. 2018. “Enough Summers.”
Petri, Alexis N. 2018. “Perpetual Wonderment”. Cleaver: Philadelphia S International Literary Magazine.
Jenson, Ronda J, Alexis N Petri, and Arden D Day. 2018. “Exploring Complex Systems for Broadening Participation in STEM through Participatory Modeling.”
2017
Jenson, Ronda J, Alexis N Petri, and Arden D Day. 2017. “Veterans in STEM: Supporting the Transition from Military Culture to the Culture of College”. Book Cover Book Cover International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics. Springer, Cham.
Colleges have seen an increase in the number of military veterans returning to college or entering college for the first time. With this increase has been greater attention to ways colleges can be welcoming and supportive learning environments for veterans, who are in many cases non-traditional students. This paper presents the results of a recent think tank and follow-up study exploring the intersection of military and college cultures for veterans pursuing degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).
2016
Petri, Alexis, and Kate Corwin. 2016. “Green Works in Service Learning and STEM Workforce Development for Urban Youth”. Science and Service Learning, 49.