Building Quantitative Skills of Students in Geoscience Courses: An NAGT Workshop to Examine Successful Practices and Promote Course and Curricular Revision

培养地球科学课程学生的定量技能：NAGT 研讨会，检查成功实践并促进课程和课程修订

• 批准号: 0083251
• 负责人: R Macdonald
• 金额: $ 11.43万
• 依托单位: College of William and Mary
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-05-15 至 2004-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0083251&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Quantitative; Skills; Students; Geoscience

Geology (42) This award supports a workshop, Building the Quantitative Skills of Students in Geoscience Courses, that will be offered in the summer of 2000. In the last century, the geosciences have changed from being a predominantly descriptive to a more quantitative science. However, many geoscience courses, particularly those at the entry-level, are non-quantitative, many faculty have little experience in effectively incorporating quantitative exercises into entry-level courses, and many students do not feel confident about their ability to use mathematics to solve geoscience problems or to make well-informed decisions as effective citizens. Thus, a central question facing geoscience education is the role of quantitative skills development in geoscience courses. The National Association of Geoscience Teachers workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to learn about best practices and current issues in building the quantitative skills of non-majors and majors, revise a particular course to more effectively use quantitative problems to promote deeper understanding of geoscience, develop specific activities and assignments for that particular course that engage students, and address other issues associated with teaching mathematical skills in context. Workshop presenters will share inquiry-based activities and assignments that are data-rich and promote active learning. Workshop participants will leave the workshop with specific strategies for developing, implementing, and assessing exercises that will build the quantitative skills of students and use effective pedagogies, all with an aim of improving student learning in geoscience courses. The workshop participants include geoscience and mathematics faculty members from a variety of institutions, including two-year institutions, and some geoscience graduate students. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend in teams that might include faculty members from paired two-year and four-year schools, geoscience and mathematics education faculty from the same institution, or a graduate teaching assistant and a geology faculty member. Presenters include geoscience and mathematics faculty from two-year and four-year colleges/universities. Issues addressed in the workshop include the specific quantitative skills to be developed, strategies to most effectively teach such skills, standards for teaching mathematics developed by the mathematics and mathematics education community, examples of best practices with a particular emphasis on entry-level geoscience courses, strategies to support students in learning more quantitative skills, and models for collaboration between geoscience and mathematics/mathematics education programs, various assessment strategies, and other related topics. Following the workshop, participants and presenters will submit activities, assignments, and problems sets to be included in an electronic publication to enable wide dissemination of workshop results.

地质学(42)该奖项支持将于2000年夏季举办的一个研讨会，名为培养学生在地球科学课程中的量化技能。在上个世纪，地球科学已经从一门以描述性为主的科学转变为一门更加定量的科学。然而，许多地球科学课程，特别是初级课程，都是非定量的，许多教师在有效地将定量练习纳入初级课程方面缺乏经验，许多学生对自己作为有效公民使用数学解决地球科学问题或做出明智决定的能力没有信心。因此，地球科学教育面临的一个中心问题是定量技能发展在地球科学课程中的作用。国家地球科学教师协会讲习班将为学员提供一个机会，以了解在培养非专业和专业的量化技能方面的最佳做法和当前问题，修订特定的课程以更有效地利用量化问题来促进对地球科学的更深入理解，为该特定课程制定具体的活动和作业以吸引学生，并在背景下解决与教学数学技能有关的其他问题。研讨会主讲人将分享基于探究的活动和作业，这些活动和作业数据丰富，并促进主动学习。讲习班学员将带着制定、实施和评估练习的具体战略离开讲习班，这些练习将培养学生的量化技能并使用有效的教学方法，所有这些都是为了改善学生在地球科学课程中的学习。研讨会的参与者包括来自各种机构的地球科学和数学教员，包括两年制机构，以及一些地球科学研究生。强烈鼓励参与者分组参加，其中可能包括来自两年制和四年制学校的教员，同一机构的地球科学和数学教育系，或者一名研究生助教和一名地质学教员。演讲者包括来自两年制和四年制学院/大学的地球科学和数学教师。讲习班讨论的问题包括：需要发展的具体定量技能、最有效地教授这些技能的战略、数学和数学教育界制定的数学教学标准、特别强调初级地球科学课程的最佳做法范例、支持学生学习更多定量技能的战略、地球科学与数学/数学教育计划之间的合作模式、各种评估战略以及其他相关专题。研讨会结束后，参与者和演讲者将提交活动、作业和问题集，并将其收录在电子出版物中，以便广泛传播研讨会结果。