Interactive Bibliographic Database Resources for Elementary School Science

小学科学互动书目数据库资源

• 批准号: 9253142
• 负责人: E.Wendy Saul
• 金额: $ 124.25万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-12-01 至 1998-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9253142&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interactive; Bibliographic; Database; Resources; Elementary

Dr. Wendy Saul is an education professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County campus, where she specializes in the use of children's literature and trade books in elementary science instruction. Dr. Saul has designed a collaborative effort with Scholastic Press to develop a commercial bibliographic software package. This microcomputer-based system would provide teachers and librarians with information on science trade books for children. The software would run on Apples, IBMs, and Macintosh computers, and could use CD-ROM drives if available or could rely on floppy disk drives. This computerized bibliographic resource would contain titles, content descriptions, annotations concerning hands-on activities and materials, treatment of gender and ethnic issues, suitability for students with physical disabilities or limited English proficiency, and brief reviews by teachers and children's literature specialists. The software would also contain an auditing function that would record how users navigate through the database query system. These audit data would be used to research how children, teachers, and librarians approach the use of science trade books, and would inform the software developers in refining the program. The proposed bibliographic software system has potential for broad impact on the teaching and learning of science in elementary schools. By increasing access to appropriate literature and trade books, this information resource will encourage teachers to use science as a way to expand reading and language arts instruction, and will improve the integration of instruction across traditionally separate disciplines. Cost sharing represents 146% of the NSF contribution.

温迪·索尔博士是马里兰大学巴尔的摩县校区的教育学教授，她在那里专门研究在基础科学教学中使用儿童文学和贸易书籍。索尔博士与学术出版社合作开发了一个商业书目软件包。这个基于微型计算机的系统将为教师和图书管理员提供有关儿童科学贸易书籍的信息。该软件将在苹果、IBM和Macintosh电脑上运行，如果有的话，可以使用CD-ROM驱动器，也可以依赖软盘驱动器。这个计算机化的书目资源将包括标题、内容描述、关于动手活动和材料的注释、性别和种族问题的处理、是否适合身体残疾或英语水平有限的学生，以及教师和儿童文学专家的简要评论。该软件还将包含一个审计功能，记录用户如何在数据库查询系统中导航。这些审计数据将被用来研究儿童、教师和图书管理员如何使用科学贸易书籍，并将在改进程序时为软件开发人员提供信息。拟议的书目软件系统可能对小学科学的教与学产生广泛的影响。通过增加获得适当的文学和贸易书籍的机会，这一信息资源将鼓励教师利用科学作为扩大阅读和语言艺术教学的一种方式，并将促进跨传统独立学科的教学的整合。费用分担占NSF捐款的146%。