Online Weather Studies: National Dissemination and Collegial Professional Development Activity With Undergraduate Faculty in Minority-Serving Institutions

在线天气研究：少数民族服务机构本科教师的全国传播和大学专业发展活动

• 批准号: 0126032
• 负责人: Ira Geer
• 金额: $ 36.57万
• 依托单位: American Meteorological Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-03-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0126032&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Online; Weather; Studies; National; Dissemination

Atmospheric Sciences (41)The American Meteorological Society (AMS) in cooperation with the US NationalWeather Service and the Department of the Geosciences of North Carolina's ElizabethCity State University is providing professional development opportunities for 100 faculty atminority institutions with the goal of increasing minority student participation inscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Over a 4.5-year period, thisproject will attain this diversity-enhancing goal by making available to minority-servingcolleges and universities Online Weather Studies, an existing AMS-developed distance-learning course on the basics of atmospheric science partially delivered via the Internet.Greater minority student participation in STEM requires greater access toscientific learning experiences that engage student interest and develop their criticalthinking skills. Critical thinking and associated reasoning skills are considered essentialfor student success in STEM. Online Weather Studies is designed to meet this goalthrough electronic delivery of highly motivational investigations written to currentweather conditions. To facilitate adoption and implementation of Online WeatherStudies, the project provides professional development experiences for faculty (25 peryear for 4 years) via a 5-day summer workshop at the National Weather Service TrainingCenter (NWSTC) at Kansas City, MO plus a series of two-day workshops treatingscience content, pedagogical, and diversity issues as a regular feature of the AMS AnnualMeeting held each January.

大气科学（41）美国气象学会（AMS）与美国国家气象局和北卡罗来纳州的俄亥俄城州立大学地球科学系合作，为少数民族机构的100名教师提供专业发展机会，目的是增加少数民族学生对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的参与。在4.5年的时间里，该项目将通过向少数族裔服务的学院和大学提供在线天气研究来实现这一增强多样性的目标，在线天气研究是一门现有的由AMS开发的关于大气科学基础知识的远程学习课程，部分通过互联网提供。少数族裔学生更多地参与STEM需要更多地获得科学学习体验，以激发学生的兴趣并培养他们的批判性思维能力。批判性思维和相关的推理能力被认为是学生在STEM中取得成功的关键。在线天气研究是为了满足这一目标，通过电子交付的高度激励性的调查写在当前天气条件。为了促进在线WeatherStudies的采用和实施，该项目通过在堪萨斯城的国家气象局培训中心（NWSTC）举办为期5天的夏季研讨会，为教师（每年25人，为期4年）提供专业发展经验，再加上一系列为期两天的研讨会，将科学内容，教学和多样性问题作为每年1月举行的AMS年度会议的常规特征。