An experimental efficacy study of science achievement and attitude development amongst 8th grade students using an inquiry, integrated science-mathematics-engineering model of inst

使用探究性、综合科学-数学-工程模型对八年级学生的科学成就和态度发展进行实验效能研究

• 批准号: 0437655
• 负责人: William Cobern
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Western Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0437655&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: experimental; efficacy; study; science; achievement

The goal of this research is to test the efficacy of an inquiry model of science instruction to show best practice or what the Institute for Education Sciences refers to as "what works." The research will ask what works with regard to science instruction for middle school students and under what circumstances. The subjects will be 8th grade students from two collaborating districts: Chicago Public Schools and Kalamazoo Public Schools. The research activities include: a) Develop, adapt and revise science instructional practices according to the components of the Model. b) Summer school program where Model practices will be experimentally tested against expert direct instruction using the random assignment of subjects to treatment/control groups. c) Regular school year implementation of the Model practices accompanied by quantitative and qualitative field research. The broader impact of the study will be the validation or rejection of the inquiry science model of instruction. given the near universal advocacy of inquiry pedagogy, the proposed research will have an exceptionally broad impact regardless of its findings. It will either lend credible experimental support to what is now widely advocated practice, or will precipitate a serious reconsideration of what is considered to be appropriate science pedagogy at the school level. Moreover, given the urban setting of the research, the findings will support improved science education amongst the neediest of American students.

这项研究的目的是测试科学教学的探究模式的有效性，以展示最佳实践或教育科学研究所所说的“什么是有效的”。这项研究将询问什么对中学生的科学教育有效，在什么情况下。受试者将是来自两个合作学区的8年级学生：芝加哥公立学校和卡拉马祖公立学校。研究活动包括：a)根据《模式》的组成部分，制定、调整和修订科学教学实践。B)暑期学校计划，将通过随机将受试者分配到治疗组/控制组，对照专家的直接指导对示范做法进行实验测试。C)定期在学年实施《示范做法》，同时进行定量和定性的实地研究。这项研究的更广泛影响将是对探究式科学教学模式的确认或拒绝。鉴于几乎普遍倡导探究教学法，拟议的研究将产生格外广泛的影响，无论其结果如何。它将为目前广泛倡导的实践提供可信的实验支持，或者将促使人们认真重新考虑在学校层面上被认为是适当的科学教育法。此外，考虑到这项研究的城市背景，研究结果将支持改善美国最有需要的学生的科学教育。