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

这项资源发展计划将制作多媒体PD工具，以帮助教师识别学生的幼稚科学解释，并鼓励他们用公认的科学解释取代。 拟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。 该项目的目标是识别学生的错误解释，然后开发课程，指导他们重新解释的过程，使其与公认的科学思想保持一致。 这项工作建立在以前的NSF资助的项目，题为“理解的后果。"

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."