Methods for Improving Teaching Strategies in Science

改进科学教学策略的方法

• 批准号: 9150002
• 负责人: John Clement
• 金额: $ 54.45万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-05-01 至 1995-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9150002&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Methods; Improving; Teaching; Strategies; Science

Recent research has indicated that it is surprisingly difficult to achieve conceptual understanding in many fundamental topics in science. The primary focus of this project will be learning studies aimed at fostering conceptual understanding, where individuals or pairs of students are taken through a lesson sequence and encouraged to think aloud during the sequence. A specific goal of the project is to develop exemplary lessons that can foster conceptual change in difficult areas. A more general goal is to identify critical learning processes and teaching strategies in successful science lessons that can guide curriculum developers and teacher trainers in other science areas. On the basis of preliminary studies, we propose to develop a set of learning study methodologies that use a combination of descriptive and experimental methods. In addition to whether students are learning from the lessons, the studies will focus on identifying which teaching strategies are critical and why students are learning from them. Major outcomes of the project will include: (1) a set of exemplary science lessons for promoting conceptual change; (2) new methodologies for conducting learning studies in educational research; (3) descriptions of critical learning processes; and (4) descriptions of general teaching strategies for use in science lessons in other areas.

最近的研究表明，在科学的许多基础主题中，实现概念性理解是非常困难的。这个项目的主要重点将是旨在培养概念理解的学习研究，其中个人或成对的学生通过课程序列，并鼓励在序列中大声思考。该项目的一个具体目标是制定可在困难领域促进观念变化的示范课程。一个更普遍的目标是在成功的科学课程中确定关键的学习过程和教学策略，可以指导其他科学领域的课程开发人员和教师培训人员。在初步研究的基础上，我们建议开发一套描述性和实验性相结合的学习研究方法。除了学生是否从课程中学习之外，研究还将关注哪些教学策略是关键的，以及学生为什么要从这些策略中学习。该项目的主要成果将包括：(1)一套促进观念转变的示范科学课程；（二）教育研究中进行学习研究的新方法；(3)关键学习过程的描述；(4)对其他领域科学课的一般教学策略的描述。