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选定科学概念的理解。基于教师对课堂研究的兴趣，STAR模式将使教师参加暑期研讨会，在那里他们将成为课堂研究团队的一员。为了研究教学方法如何影响学习，本项目的中学教师需要深入了解要研究的科学主题，概念变化的教学策略，以及确定学生理解水平的方法。第一年的实习和学年的后续工作将涉及选定的物理主题和概念变化教学模式。在第二年，来自25个学校系统的领导将接受指导，以便他们能够在自己的系统中进行类似的项目。第三和第四年将把这个模型扩展到生命科学和地球科学。在第五年，将编制和散发一份编制这种在职方案的指南。

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.