SBIR Phase II: Understanding the Nature of Science

SBIR 第二阶段：了解科学的本质

• 批准号: 0620590
• 负责人: Timothy Erickson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: BigTime Science
• 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: 2006-09-15 至 2008-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0620590&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Understanding; Nature

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will deliver simulations over the web for secondary and post-secondary science instruction which focus explicitly on students coming to understand the "nature of science." The nature of science implies that both the underlying logic of scientific discovery and the way that science is organized around the acquisition and dissemination of data and ideas. This is the big picture in science learning -- establishing the relationship between experiments and hypotheses; the idea that theories are models and not reality, and that the test of a theory is its predictive power. The research focuses on the careful design and testing of both the simulations and the lessons in which they are embedded, to ensure that they are as effective as possible.Tomorrow's citizens need to know how science works. This project will help erase dangerous misconceptions about the origins and extent of scientific knowledge, and give students tools to evaluate scientific (and quasi-scientific) claims more effectively. This project also probes unusual models for both delivery of instruction and commercialization in the education world: it will use the Internet not to deliver content but to mediate a simulation and promote inter-group communication, usually within a single classroom rather than more widely; and will do so using subscriptions - a way that is cost-effective to the teacher in the short term.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将通过网络为中学和中学后科学教学提供模拟，重点明确放在学生理解“科学的本质”上。“科学的本质意味着科学发现的潜在逻辑以及科学围绕数据和思想的获取和传播而组织的方式。这是科学学习的大图景--建立实验和假设之间的关系;理论是模型而不是现实的想法，对理论的检验是其预测能力。 该研究的重点是精心设计和测试模拟和嵌入其中的课程，以确保它们尽可能有效。未来的公民需要了解科学是如何运作的。该项目将有助于消除对科学知识的起源和范围的危险误解，并为学生提供更有效地评估科学（和准科学）主张的工具。该项目还探讨了教育界提供教学和商业化的不寻常模式：它将利用互联网不是提供内容，而是进行模拟和促进群体间交流，通常是在一个教室内，而不是更广泛地进行;并将利用订阅-一种短期内对教师具有成本效益的方式。