Collaborative Research-Collaborative Research-Creating Exemplary Curricula and Supporting Faculty Development in Using Social Explorer to Teach with Demographic Data Maps

协作研究-协作研究-创建示范课程并支持教师发展，利用社会资源管理器利用人口统计数据地图进行教学

• 批准号: 0618456
• 负责人: Andrew Beveridge
• 金额: $ 11.25万
• 依托单位: CUNY Queens College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0618456&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Creating; Exemplary; Curricula

Social Sciences - Other (89) Intellectual Merit. This project combines the web application "Social Explorer," which makes visualization of quantitative social patterns and demographic change easily accessible, with research-based instructional support for using this tool in teaching undergraduate social science classes. The project is exploring the potential impact of this use of "Social Explorer" in teaching and learning key social science concepts and data analysis skills, such as understanding population distributions and demographic change, through the creation of several curriculum modules that embody proven instructional approaches for teaching with "Social Explorer" as well as associated documentation to help others adapt these modules to their own teaching context. The modules are being placed in an on-line archive that is slated to become a collection point and dissemination source for other modules created by faculty users. The design of this archive is based on current cognitive theory on effective teaching and learning. It is promoting active learning for students, grounding each module in domain knowledge, modeling assessment in support of learning, and facilitating flexible adaptation to an instructor's own context. "Social Explorer" provides demographic information in an easily understood format: interactive thematic data maps (reports that present data for an area in a larger context), and simple tools to visualize complex data patterns across geographies (nation, state, county, census tract) and across time. Extensive data are being made available for US counties from 1790 to the present, and for census tracts for each decade from 1910 to the present.Broader Impacts: This project is expanding the public use of "Social Explorer" so that scholars from many social science disciplines are able to make use of this resource for their own teaching. Together the following set of activities are enhancing the impact of this project:1. Creating an online archive of effective lessons using "Social Explorer." Ultimately these lessons will be created by design teams of social science professors, and annotated with rich support materials to facilitate adaptation, including links to resources and samples of student work. 2. Establishing an online collaboration and discussion space for undergraduate course instructors using "Social Explorer." 3. Implementing improvements to "Social Explorer's" tools and documentation to support instructional uses.The design of instructional support and curriculum is being modeled on current research on improving undergraduate education, assessment-driven instruction, and cognitive models of learning.

社会科学 - 其他 (89) 智力价值。该项目结合了网络应用程序“Social Explorer”，该应用程序可以轻松访问定量社会模式和人口变化的可视化，并为在本科生社会科学课程中使用该工具提供基于研究的教学支持。该项目正在探索“社交探索者”在教学和学习关键社会科学概念和数据分析技能（例如了解人口分布和人口变化）方面的潜在影响，方法是创建几个课程模块，这些模块体现了经过验证的“社交探索者”教学方法以及相关文档，以帮助其他人将这些模块适应自己的教学环境。 这些模块被放置在一个在线档案中，该档案将成为教师用户创建的其他模块的收集点和传播源。 该档案的设计基于当前有效教学的认知理论。 它促进学生主动学习，将每个模块扎根于领域知识，对支持学习的评估进行建模，并促进灵活适应教师自身的背景。 “Social Explorer”以易于理解的格式提供人口统计信息：交互式主题数据地图（在更大范围内呈现某个区域的数据的报告），以及跨地域（国家、州、县、人口普查区）和跨时间的复杂数据模式可视化的简单工具。正在提供从 1790 年至今的美国各县以及从 1910 年至今每个十年的人口普查区的大量数据。 更广泛的影响：该项目正在扩大“社会探索者”的公众使用范围，以便许多社会科学学科的学者能够利用这一资源进行自己的教学。以下一系列活动共同增强了该项目的影响：1．使用“Social Explorer”创建有效课程的在线档案。最终，这些课程将由社会科学教授的设计团队创建，并附有丰富的支持材料注释以促进适应，包括资源和学生作业样本的链接。 2.利用“Social Explorer”为本科生课程导师建立在线协作和讨论空间。 3. 对“社交探索者”工具和文档进行改进，以支持教学用途。教学支持和课程的设计是以当前关于改善本科教育、评估驱动的教学和学习认知模型的研究为蓝本的。