The Value of Scientific Peer-Reviewed Literature in a General Education Science Course
The Value of Scientific Peer-Reviewed Literature in a General Education Science Course
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科学同行评审文献在通识教育科学课程中的价值
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2000
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M. Pall
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同行评议的科学文献是科学审议结构的核心。它被描述为“保持科学事业相对诚实的主要因素”（Abelson 1980）。对科学文献的真实的理解对于理解科学是如何运作的以及它与其他人类努力的区别是至关重要的。虽然本科科学专业的学生经常熟悉科学文献的结构和功能，但针对非科学专业的通识教育科学课程很少（如果有的话）要求学生熟悉这一核心文献。正因为如此，这些学生和公民仍然没有意识到科学最重要的审议结构。下面我将介绍我在华盛顿州立大学温哥华分支开设的一门通识教育人类遗传学课程。这门课要求学生写一篇学期论文，比较同行评审的科学文献中的一篇文章和同一主题的一篇流行文章。通过这样做，每个学生都专注于科学文献中的一篇或几篇论文，这些论文可能是学生因为对该学科领域的浓厚兴趣而选择的。通过将所选科学文章的结构、可读性、文档和其他特征与一篇或多篇流行文章进行比较，突出了科学文献的最重要特征。
HE peer-reviewed scientific literature is central to the deliberative structure of science. It has been described as ‘‘the major factor in keeping the scientific enterprise relatively honest’’(Abelson 1980). A real understanding of the scientific literature is essential to grasping how science works and how it differs from other human endeavors. While undergraduate science majors often become familiar with the structure and function of the scientific literature, general education science courses aimed at nonscience majors rarely, if ever, require their students to become familiar with this central literature. Because of this, such students and citizens remain unaware of the most important deliberative structure of science. I describe below a general education human genetics course that I offered at Washington State University’s Vancouver branch campus. This course required students to write a term paper comparing an article in the peer-reviewed scientific literature with a popular article on the same subject. By doing this, each student became focused on one or a few papers in the scientific literature that were presumably chosen by the student because of substantial interest in the subject area. By comparing the structure, readability, documentation and other features of the chosen scientific article with one or more popular articles, the most important features of the scientific literature were highlighted.