Do Linked International Curricula in Biology Enhance Science Literacy and Engagement in Non-Science and Pre-major Students?

生物学相关的国际课程是否可以提高非科学和预科学生的科学素养和参与度？

• 批准号: 0510575
• 负责人: Sherryl Broverman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0510575&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Do; Linked; International; Curricula; Biology

Biological Sciences (61) Nonscience majors and early premajors studying the biology of HIV/AIDS in the United States are electronically linked to students at Egerton University in Njoro, Kenya to form international, collaborative working groups. Using activities jointly designed by American and Kenyan faculty members, these two groups of students work together on issues relating to the scientific and social consequences of HIV/AIDS. Together they are generating educational materials on HIV/AIDS that Egerton students will use to expedite change in their communities. The intellectual merit of this project is its novel approach to engaging nonscience students, both intellectually and emotionally, in an important issue that is informed by science, the African AIDS epidemic. Students are learning to evaluate the quality of scientific data by analyzing the controversies surrounding HIV/AIDS. At the same time, they are forging a multidisciplinary understanding of the interconnectedness of science and global development issues, while grappling with the ethical complexities surrounding the disparate benefits of science and technology in developed and developing countries. Students who participate in this project are being evaluated to determine how an international component, emotional connectivity, and work of humanitarian utility influence cognitive and affective responses to learning science. This contribution to research in biology education, as well as the global connectedness of students who participate, form the broader impacts of the project. This award was cofunded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering.

生物科学（61）在美国学习艾滋病毒/艾滋病生物学的非科学专业和早期预科生与肯尼亚恩乔罗的埃杰顿大学的学生建立了电子联系，以形成国际合作工作组。 利用美国和肯尼亚教师共同设计的活动，这两组学生共同研究与艾滋病毒/艾滋病的科学和社会后果有关的问题。 他们一起制作关于艾滋病毒/艾滋病的教育材料，埃杰顿的学生将使用这些材料来加快社区的变化。 该项目的智力价值在于其新颖的方法，使非理科学生在智力和情感上参与一个由科学告知的重要问题，即非洲艾滋病流行病。 学生们正在学习通过分析围绕艾滋病毒/艾滋病的争议来评估科学数据的质量。 与此同时，他们正在对科学与全球发展问题的相互关联性形成多学科的理解，同时努力解决围绕发达国家和发展中国家科学和技术的不同惠益而产生的伦理复杂性。 参加该项目的学生正在接受评估，以确定国际组成部分，情感联系和人道主义效用的工作如何影响学习科学的认知和情感反应。 这种对生物学教育研究的贡献，以及参与的学生的全球联系，形成了该项目更广泛的影响。 该奖项由NSF国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。