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）非科学专业和研究美国艾滋病毒/艾滋病生物学的早期前期与肯尼亚恩约罗市埃格顿大学的学生相关联，组成了国际协作，协作工作组。 这两组学生使用美国和肯尼亚教职员工共同设计的活动，在与艾滋病毒/艾滋病的科学和社会后果有关的问题上共同努力。 他们共同生成有关艾格顿学生将在社区中加快变化的艾滋病毒/艾滋病的教育材料。 该项目的智力优点是它在智力和情感上吸引非科学学生的新颖方法，这是一个重要的问题，该问题是由非洲艾滋病流行科学所告知的一个重要问题。 学生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。 同时，他们正在对科学和全球发展问题的相互联系有多学科的理解，同时努力应对发达国家科学和技术的不同益处的道德复杂性。 对参加该项目的学生进行了评估，以确定国际组成部分，情感连通性以及人道主义效用的工作如何影响对学习科学的认知和情感反应。 这对生物学教育研究以及参与学生的全球联系的贡献构成了该项目的更广泛影响。 该奖项由NSF的国际科学与工程办公室授予了奖项。