A Core Course in Scientific Inquiry

科学探究核心课程

• 批准号: 9652981
• 负责人: Hugh Hudson
• 金额: $ 17.98万
• 依托单位: University of The Incarnate Word
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-04-01 至 2001-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9652981&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Core; Course; Scientific; Inquiry

The science literacy of college graduates is not acceptable for today's technological society. To hold jobs and to be responsible, voting citizens, non-science graduates need fewer facts from specific science disciplines and more skills with which to understand, approach, and reason about science issues. This project will develop a science course designed to instill an awareness of how science is practiced and the skills needed to approach science issues with responsible confidence. While addressing a national need for increased science literacy, it will also fulfill the science requirement in the core curriculum. The primary audience for this new course will be students in the liberal arts, education, and the social sciences. The project will reach its desired goal by designing a course in which students carry out hands-on science activities in a controlled discovery environment. Students will not be given the content details in a formal lecture setting. Rather they will be given activities that bring out important variables in observed phenomena, instead of in theories. The course and its development will be guided by four objectives: to train students in the process of observation, to assist students in developing explanations for what they observe, to assist students to create models which will test their explanations, and to lead to students to apply their explanations to other examples. At the conclusion of this project a complete, stand alone one semester course in scientific inquiry will be packaged. There will be a full series of student activities that can be conducted in an 80 minute class period with preparatory material, further explanations for students and resource material for teachers.

大学毕业生的科学素养在当今的科技社会是不可接受的。为了找到工作，成为负责任的、有投票权的公民，非科学专业的毕业生需要更少的来自特定科学学科的事实，而需要更多的技能来理解、处理和推理科学问题。该项目将开发一门科学课程，旨在灌输如何实践科学的意识，以及以负责任的信心处理科学问题所需的技能。在满足国家对提高科学素养的需求的同时，它也将满足核心课程中的科学要求。这门新课程的主要受众是文科、教育学和社会科学专业的学生。通过设计一门课程，让学生在受控的发现环境中进行动手科学活动，该项目将达到预期目标。学生不会在正式的讲座中被告知内容细节。相反，他们将被赋予在观察到的现象中而不是在理论中产生重要变量的活动。本课程及其发展将以四个目标为指导：在观察过程中训练学生，帮助学生对他们所观察到的东西进行解释，帮助学生建立模型来检验他们的解释，并引导学生将他们的解释应用到其他例子中。在这个项目结束时，一个完整的，独立的一个学期的科学探究课程将被打包。在80分钟的课堂时间内，将有一系列完整的学生活动，包括准备材料、学生的进一步讲解和教师的资源材料。