Exploring the Effects of Teacher Research Experiences on Classroom Inquiry

这个项目正在佛罗里达州立大学研究两个RET模型。 第一个是由国家高磁场实验室的研究和学习一体化中心（CIRL）提供的。 研究人员将其描述为一种传统的RET，教师被安排在各个教师实验室参与正在进行的研究。 该计划的参与者每天聚集在一起，进行以教学问题为重点的讨论和活动。 第二个是由艺术与科学学院的科学教学活动办公室（OSTA）提供的。 这是一个非传统的计划，有两名科学家和两名硕士教师全职与参与者一起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“探究过程的探究”，在该项目中，他们对探究的基本特征进行了教学研究。 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“对可再生能源技术的必要特征产生更深入和更普遍的知识。本研究的目的是：（1）分析RET课程的基本特征，（2）检查参与者对探究的理解和实施，（3）研究与参与者个人特征的互动，（4）评估探究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.