Facilitating Group Scientific Inquiry Using Science Museum Exhibits

利用科学博物馆展品促进团体科学探究

• 批准号: 0411826
• 负责人: Joshua Gutwill
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Exploratorium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0411826&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Facilitating; Group; Scientific; Inquiry; Using

This study (1) creates a genre of exhibit-based, group scientific inquiry programs for general and low-income museum visitors, (2) determines key program characteristics that lead to learning, (3) conducts a controlled experiment to assess the levels and nature of actual transfer of such skills to other exhibits and to visitors' lives beyond the museum visit.A team of researchers and educators creates, revises, and studies Exhibit Investigations for general and underserved visitors at the Exploratorium. During Investigations, educators coach visitors in inquiry skills that are heuristics for engaging with exhibits or physical phenomena beyond the museum. Pre- and post-assessments of learner interactions with a novel exhibit are recorded and analyzed for evidence of transfer of the inquiry skills introduced during the Investigations. Exit and follow-up interviews determine long-term impact. Two versions of the Investigations-with and without mnemonic cards summarizing inquiry skills-are compared with two control conditions in a randomized block design with four conditions and 50 groups per condition. Intellectual MeritThe project broadens the focus of current research on the learning of scientific inquiry skills beyond the school setting. A science museum with engaging and interactive exhibits constitutes an ideal and understudied setting for research on inquiry learning by groups. This project. describes the nature of inquiry learning in an informal learning environment . generates principles for using audience diversity to enhance learning identifies specific inquiry skills that are relevant and effective in this environment. assesses levels of transfer of such skills by visitors. compares such transfer to control groups receiving no mediation or content-based mediationThe exhibit-based, group inquiries adapt best practices from formal education for use in the multigenerational, free-choice learning environment of a museum. The research yields a series of effective programs and a set of theoretical principles that account for their efficacy.Broader ImpactsProject results and learning principles will be disseminated to academic, museum, and lay audiences. In total, the project serves approximately 1,000 Exploratorium visitors. The project will is presented at national and local conferences such as AERA, ASTC, VSA, and AAM, reaching museum researchers, practitioners, and a broad educational research community. Articles are submitted to peer-review journals in the fields of museum studies and science education. Project updates and the final report are posted on the Exploratorium Web site (visited by 15 million annually). Outcomes are disseminated to the Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS), an initiative of the Exploratorium, Kings College London, and UC Santa Cruz. A non-technical publication, distributed through the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), informs science centers around the world.

本研究（1）为普通和低收入博物馆参观者创建了一种基于数字比特的群体科学探究项目，（2）确定了导致学习的关键项目特征，（3）进行了一项对照实验，以评估这些技能实际转移到其他展品和参观者参观博物馆之后的生活的水平和性质。一个研究人员和教育工作者团队创建，修订，并在探索博物馆为一般和服务不足的游客研究展览调查。在调查过程中，教育工作者指导参观者学习探究技能，这些技能是博物馆以外的展品或物理现象的启发。学习者与一个新的展览互动的前和后评估记录和分析的调查过程中引入的调查技能的转移的证据。离职面谈和后续面谈决定了长期影响。两个版本的调查-有和没有记忆卡总结查询技能-进行了比较，两个控制条件的随机区组设计，四个条件和50组的条件。该项目扩大了目前对学校环境以外的科学探究技能学习的研究重点。科学博物馆的展品引人入胜，互动性强，是研究小组探究学习的理想场所。这个项目 描述了在非正式学习环境中探究学习的本质。 制定利用受众多样性来加强学习的原则， 在这种环境中有效的技能。 评估来访者传授这些技能的程度。 将这种转移与没有接受中介或基于内容的中介的对照组进行比较。基于位的组调查适应了正规教育的最佳实践，用于博物馆的多代自由选择的学习环境。研究成果将产生一系列有效的项目和一套理论原则，解释其功效。更广泛的影响项目结果和学习原则将传播给学术界、博物馆和非专业观众。该项目总共为约1，000名探索馆游客提供服务。该项目将在国家和地方会议上提出，如AERA，ASTC，VSA和AAM，达到博物馆研究人员，从业者和广泛的教育研究社区。文章提交给博物馆研究和科学教育领域的同行评审期刊。项目更新和最终报告发布在Exploratorium网站上（每年有1500万人访问）。研究成果将分发给非正式学习和学校中心（CILS），这是探索馆、伦敦国王学院和加州大学圣克鲁斯的一项倡议。通过科学技术中心协会（ASTC）分发的非技术出版物为世界各地的科学中心提供信息。