Learning to RECAST Students' Causal Assumptions in Science Through Interactive Multimedia Professional Development Tools

这个资源开发项目将制作多媒体PD工具，帮助教师识别学生幼稚的科学解释，并鼓励他们被接受的科学解释所取代。建议的产品将是互动的多媒体专业发展工具，以指导中学物理和生物教师评估学生的科学解释。该项目的目标是找出学生错误的解释，然后制定课程，指导他们重塑解释的过程，使其与公认的科学思想保持一致。这项工作建立在先前由美国国家科学基金会资助的名为“理解后果”的项目的基础上。

This resource development project would produce multimedia PD tools to help teachers identify students' naive science explanations and encourage their replacement by accepted scientific explanations. The proposed products would be interactive, multimedia professional development tools to guide middle school physics and biology teachers in assessing students' scientific explanations. The project's goals are to identify students' faulty explanations and then develop curriculum that will guide the process by which they recast their explanations to align them with accepted scientific ideas. This work builds upon a prior NSF-funded project entitled "Understandings of Consequence."