Investigative Science Learning Environment: Science and Cognition Combined

物理(13)这个项目正在为大量招生的入门物理课程开发和测试一个独特的多方面的认识论学习系统--调查科学学习环境(ISLE)--它复制了实习科学家使用的系统发现方法。这一系统的目标是将“科学的认识方式”带入物理学习过程。一套完整的课程材料(已出版的创新教科书、学生学习指南和教师指南，包括实验建议)正在为主要由生物专业学生和医学预科学生选修的基于代数的物理课程开发。此外，正在编写资源材料、反馈形成性评估工具和关于ISLE实际实施的建议，作为本课程和使用传统物理教材的微积分入门物理课程的补充。Isle正在接受基于代数的物理课程的测试，为准备不足的工科学生提供的衔接课程，以及为工科学生提供的基于微积分的普通和荣誉物理课程。ISLE基于对物理教育、认知科学和21世纪工作场所对学习成果的要求的研究。俄亥俄州立大学、罗格斯大学、奇科州立大学和一所两年制学院正在使用它。学生可以是主动的学习者，而不是教学的对象。学生自己按照每个概念的一般模式构建对物理的理解-设计并通过实验测试对他们观察到的现象的定性和定量解释。使用了各种经过验证的思维和学习策略--多重暴露、多重表现和多媒体增强学习。学生是课程各个部分的积极参与者，他们解决复杂的问题，并将他们的知识应用于实际目的。在参加了探究性科学学习环境(ISLE)物理课程后，学生应该更熟练地掌握科学调查技术，具有设计自己的调查和决策的经验，能够构建他们对新概念的理解，并习惯于小组合作解决复杂的现实生活问题。它们给教学留下了概念性知识和程序性知识结构。

Physics (13) This project is developing and testing for large enrollment introductory physics courses a unique multifaceted epistemological learning system-Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) - that replicates systematic discovery methods used by practicing scientists. The goal of this system is to bring "a scientific way of knowing" into the process of learning physics. A complete set of curriculum materials (published innovative textbook, student study guide, and instructor's guide including suggestions for experiments) is being developed for the algebra-based physics course taken primarily by biology majors and pre-medical students. In addition, resource materials, feedback formative assessment instruments, and recommendations on practical implementation of the ISLE are being prepared as supplements for this course and for the calculus-based introductory physics courses in which traditional physics texts are used. ISLE is being tested in algebra-based physics courses, in a bridging course for under prepared engineering students, and in regular and honors calculus-based physics for engineering students. The ISLE is based on research in physics education, cognitive science, and learning-outcome requests from the 21st century workplace. It is being used in several institutions-Ohio State University, Rutgers University, Chico State University and a two-year college. Students can be active learners rather than objects of teaching. Students construct the understanding of physics themselves following the same general pattern for each concept-devising and experimentally testing qualitative and quantitative explanations of the phenomena that they observe. Various proven thinking and learning strategies-multiple exposures, multiple representations, and multimedia-enhanced learning-are used. Students are active participants in all parts of the course, and they solve complex problems and apply their knowledge for practical purposes.After taking the Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) physics course, students should be better skilled in the techniques of scientific investigation, experienced in designing their own investigations and in decision making, able to construct their understanding of new concepts, and used to working collaboratively in groups to solve complex real life problems. They leave instruction with conceptual knowledge and procedural knowledge structures.