Fostering Conceptual Change in Science Learning

以前的资金从美国国家科学基金会这个小组已经导致了一本书的经验教训，处理在力学的先入之见，已显示出非常有希望的结果在课堂试验的发展。 利用这些经验教训为起点，本项目将制定一套教学策略，促进有意义的学习和科学概念的转变。 该项目将：（1）对学生学习科学的概念进行研究;（2）对专家进行概念变化研究;（3）从这些研究中发展更详细的概念变化过程理论;（4）发展一套配套的有效教学策略。 教师和课程开发人员可以使用这些策略来提高学生的科学素养，并扩大获得基本科学概念的人口。 因此，该项目旨在让学生更广泛地获得强大的科学思想。

Previous funding from NSF to this group has led to the development of a book of lessons for dealing with preconceptions in mechanics that has shown very promising results in classroom trials. Using these lessons as a starting point, this project will develop a set of instructional strategies for fostering meaningful learning and conceptual change in science. The project will: (1) conduct studies of conceptual in pairs of students learning science; (2) conduct studies of conceptual change in experts; (3) form these studies develop more detailed theories of conceptual change processes; (4) develop an accompanying set of effective instructional strategies. These strategies can be used by teachers and curriculum developers to promote student literacy in science and widen the population that has access to fundamental science concepts. Thus, the project in aimed at giving students broader access to powerful scientific ideas.