Exploring the Effects of Teacher Research Experiences on Classroom Inquiry

这个项目正在研究佛罗里达州立大学的两个RET模型。第一个是由国家强磁场实验室研究和学习整合中心(CIRL)提供的。研究人员将其描述为传统的RET，教师被安排在个别教员实验室参与正在进行的研究。该计划的参与者每天都会聚集在一起，讨论和开展专注于教学问题的活动。第二个是由文理学院科学教学活动办公室(OSTA)提供的。这是一个非传统的项目，有两名科学家和两名硕士教师全职工作，参与者制定自己的科学研究议程。在第二个项目中，参与者还参与了“关于探究过程的探究”，在这个过程中，他们进行了一个关于探究的基本特征的教学研究项目。研究人员正在研究这些项目对教师知识和实践、专业发展和保留以及学生学习的影响。该项目将“对RET的必要特征产生更深入和更普遍的知识”。研究的目的是：(1)分析RET项目的基本特征；(2)考察参与者对探究的理解和运用；(3)与参与者的个人特征进行学习互动；(4)评估探究式教学对学生科学学习的影响。

This project is studying two RET models at Florida State University. The first is offered by the Center for the Integration of Research and Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. The researchers characterize it as a traditional RET in which teachers are placed in individual faculty laboratories to participate in on-going research. Participants in this program come together daily for discussion and activities focused on pedagogical issues. The second is offered by the Office of Science Teaching Activities (OSTA) in the College of Arts and Sciences. It is a non-traditional program with two scientists and two master teachers working full time with participants who develop their own scientific research agendas. In the second program participants also engage in "inquiry on the process of inquiry" in which they conduct a pedagogical research project on the essential features of inquiry. The researchers are examining the impact of these programs on teacher knowledge and practices, professional development and retention, and student learning. The project will "generate a deeper and more generalizable knowledge of the necessary features of RET's." The research goals are to (1) analyze the essential features of RET programs, (2) examine participants' understanding and enactment of inquiry, (3) study interactions with the personal characteristics of participants, and (4) assess the influence of inquiry teaching on student learning in science.