Tools for Scientific Thinking: Microcomputer-Based Laboratories for Teaching Science Teachers

该项目旨在教育参与者了解 不同的教学方法如何影响学生对所选内容的理解 科学概念。 论教师课堂兴趣的培养 研究，星星模型将把教师带到一个夏季研讨会， 他们将成为课堂研究小组的一员。 为了研究 教学方法如何影响学习，中学教师在 这个项目需要深入了解 研究课题、概念教学策略 变化，以及确定学生理解水平的方法。 第一年的在职和学年跟进将处理 物理选题与概念转变教学模式。 在第二年，来自25个学校系统的领导人将 接受指导，以便他们可以在他们的类似项目进行 自己的系统。 第三和第四年将涉及扩展模型， 生命和地球科学。 在第五年，开发指南 将制作和传播这些在职方案。

This project will be designed to educate participants to become aware of how different teaching methods affect student understanding of selected science concepts. Building on teacher interest in doing classroom research, the STAR model will bring teachers to a summer workshop where they will become part of a classroom research team. In order to study how teaching methodology effects learning, the middle school teachers in this project will need to acquire a deep understanding of the science topics to be investigated, strategies for teaching for conceptual change, and methods for determining levels of student understanding. The first year's inservice and academic year follow up will deal with selected physics topics and the conceptual change teaching model. During the second year, leaders from twenty-five school systems will receive instruction so that they can conduct similar projects in their own systems. Years three and four will involve expanding the model to the life and earth sciences. During year five, a guide for developing such inservice programs will be produced and disseminated.