Dehipawala, S., & Yao, K. K., & Park, P., & Cheung, T. (2024, April), Pedagogy of classroom learning assistant trained with student skill-learning projects in complexity simulation study and MRI data analysis.  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE North East Section, Fairfield, Connecticut. 10.18260/1-2--45775

\bibitem{asee_peer_45775}
  Dehipawala, S., \& Yao, K. K., \& Park, P., \& Cheung, T. (2024, April), \emph{Pedagogy of classroom learning assistant trained with student skill-learning projects in complexity simulation study and MRI data analysis.}
  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE North East Section, Fairfield, Connecticut.
  10.18260/1-2--45775

Sunil Dehipawala, Kelvin Kai Yao, Philip Park, and Tak Cheung.  "Pedagogy of classroom learning assistant trained with student skill-learning projects in complexity simulation study and MRI data analysis.".  2024 ASEE North East Section, Fairfield, Connecticut, 2024, April.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/45775 Internet.  11 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_45775}
  Sunil Dehipawala, Kelvin Kai Yao, Philip Park, and Tak Cheung.
  "Pedagogy of classroom learning assistant trained with student skill-learning projects in complexity simulation study and MRI data analysis.".
  \emph{2024 ASEE North East Section, Fairfield, Connecticut, 2024, April}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/45775 Internet.  11 Jul, 2024

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AB  - An undergraduate student project usually would have a skill development component modeled as a major learning outcome next to the learning outcome of knowing the established facts, with an optional smaller research component as an extension of previous results and new discovery if any.  The inclusion of “becoming a learning assistant “as one of the learning outcomes in a student project was implemented as an additional essential component.  The “becoming of a learning assistant” as one of the outcomes in a skill learning project would be similar to graduate students teaching freshmen labs with advanced knowledge in graduate school education.  In comparison to the GPA > 3.0 selection requirement in the participation of a student project in our community college with open admission policy, the GPA > 3.8 requirement was imposed in the pedagogy that carries an outcome of “becoming a learning assistant”.  Although the implementation of assessment is for a professor to improve the pedagogy, there could still be a gap between the perspective of a professor and the perspective of the learning students.  Such gap could be eliminated when there is a perspective from an advanced student with project experience in the content delivery process.  For instance, a learning assistant volunteer could provide feedback information on a professor’s delivery from a perspective of peer-learning in the teaching of a first level class, a project class designed for high school students in the outreach mission of a community college, etc.  In other words, the peer-learning pedagogy is extended to include a project-student, but is different from the pedagogy of supplemental instructor with a student just taking the next course without project experience.  A project’s skill training would consist of finding differential equation solutions by programming in complexity study with practical applications to magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy for the affirmation of the knowledge in the applications of first year calculus to chaos study, noise reduction, signal analysis, etc. The outcome of “becoming a learning assistant” would be strengthened by a required assignment of the reading of two recently published articles in Education Science, in addition to the programming skill assignments.  The Education Science articles following the scientific method are readily comprehensible to the high GPA engineering major students. The role of a learning assistant in a medical physics research class for high school students is discussed with assessment rubrics and recommendations.
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