High school science fair: Experiences of two groups of undergraduate bioscience students.
High school science fair: Experiences of two groups of undergraduate bioscience students.
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10.1371/journal.pone.0252627
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Reisch J
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作者：
Grinnell F;Dalley S;Reisch J
科学博览会为学生提供了直接了解科学实践的潜在机会。在过去的六年里，我们一直在对地区和国家的高中生和高中后学生进行自愿和匿名调查，以了解他们在高中科学博览会的经历，包括收到的帮助、遇到的障碍以及对科学博览会的价值和影响的看法。了解学生对科学博览会的看法将有助于教育工作者使科学博览会成为更有效的学习机会。在本文中，我们重点关注两组全国高中后学生的研究结果：2014-2019 年在 UT 西南医学中心进行研究的本科生研究员（SURF 学生）和参加 2019 年霍华德休斯医学院科学教育联盟 (SEA) 夏季研讨会的生物学本科生。大约 25% 完成调查的学生表示他们参加过高中科学博览会，但超过一半的学生就读于没有科学博览会的高中。实际上，每 10 个学生中有 6 个参加了科学博览会（如果有的话）。本来可以参加高中科学博览会但选择不参加的学生认为没有足够的时间并提出他们的项目想法是不参加的主要原因。大约一半的 SURF 学生赞成要求非竞争性的科学博览会，无论他们自己是否参加过科学博览会。另一方面，不到五分之一的人认为应该需要竞争性科学博览会。科学过程简介和一般学习是最常被提及的要求非竞争性科学博览会的原因；这些原因在竞争性科学博览会中很少被提及。与我们之前调查的全国高中生群体（大多数在九年级和十年级参加科学博览会）不同，SURF 学生在整个高中阶段都参加科学博览会，并且多次参加科学博览会的可能性是高中生的两倍。总之，我们的研究结果表明，生物科学专业的本科生参加高中科学博览会的频率远远高于以前认识的频率，并提供了有关这些成功的大学生（通过他们正在进行夏季科学研究的事实来衡量）如何看待科学博览会的见解。研究结果进一步强调了激励而不是要求科学博览会参与的重要性，特别是在九年级和十年级，以及发展非竞争性科学博览会的潜在价值。
Science fairs offer potential opportunities for students to learn first-hand about the practices of science. Over the past six years we have been carrying out voluntary and anonymous surveys with regional and national groups of high school and post high school students to learn about their high school science fair experiences regarding help received, obstacles encountered, and opinions about the value and impact of science fair. Understanding what students think about science fairs will help educators make science fairs more effective learning opportunities. In this paper, we focus on the findings with two national groups of post high school students–undergraduate research fellows (SURF students) who did research at UT Southwestern Medical Center during 2014–2019 and undergraduates biology students attending the 2019 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Education Alliance (SEA) summer symposium. About 25% of the students who completed surveys indicated that they had participated in high school science fair, but more than half attended high schools where science fairs were unavailable. Effectively, 6 out of every 10 students participated in science fair if available. Students who could have participated in high school science fair but chose not to do so identified not enough time and coming up with their project idea as major reasons why not. About half the SURF students favored requiring non-competitive science fair regardless whether they themselves had participated in science fair. On the other hand, less than 1 in 5 thought that competitive science fair should be required. Introduction to the scientific process and general learning were mentioned most frequently as the reasons to require non-competitive science fair; these reasons were mentioned rarely in connection with competitive science fair. Unlike the national cohort of high school students we surveyed previously, who mostly did science fair in 9th and 10th grades, SURF students participated in science fair throughout high school and were twice as likely as high school students to have carried out science fair more than once. In conclusion, our findings suggest that participation of the undergraduate bioscience majors in high school science fairs occurs far more frequently than recognized previously and provide insights into how these successful college students (gauged by the fact that they are doing summer science research) view science fairs. The findings emphasize further the importance of incentivizing rather than requiring science fair participation, especially in 9th and 10th grades, and the potential value of developing non-competitive science fairs.
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