Visual Modeling Strategies In Science Teaching

科学教学中的视觉建模策略

• 批准号: 0723709
• 负责人: John Clement
• 金额: $ 97.91万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0723709&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Visual; Modeling; Strategies; Science; Teaching

The long-term goal of this project is to find principles of instruction for developing students' visual models in science, including design principles for curriculum development, technological tools, and new pedagogical principles. It will pursue specific aspects of this goal by conducting detailed studies of teaching and learning in the context of innovative curricula that focus on developing visual models. We lack studies that bring together insights on models and visualization from cognitive science and strategic planning for model based learning in real classroom interactions. The project will concentrate on methods teachers use to guide full class discussions while using innovative model-based curricula in middle school biology and in high school physical science. The three major parallel tracks of the research are: I: Documenting student imagistic reasoning processes in discussion. II: Identifying classroom teaching strategies that foster the learning of visual models. III: Identifying specific visual modeling strategies (e.g., the use of animations and simulations in small tutoring groups and in full classrooms)The project responds to the need to describe guided inquiry methods that lie between pure discovery and pure lecture approaches. Overall, the project will contribute to connecting three important areas of theory: the cognitive dynamics of imagistic mental simulation; the dynamics of teacher-student co-construction in full class discussions; and theories of model-based learning for conceptual change. These theoretical results will contribute to the practice of pedagogy by providing a more coherent framework within which teachers and other educators can make informed decisions about classroom strategies and pedagogical tools such as animations and simulations.

该项目的长期目标是找到发展学生科学视觉模型的教学原则，包括课程开发的设计原则，技术工具和新的教学原则。它将通过在注重开发视觉模型的创新课程背景下对教与学进行详细研究来实现这一目标的具体方面。我们缺乏将认知科学中的模型和可视化的见解以及真实的课堂互动中基于模型的学习的战略规划结合在一起的研究。该项目将集中在教师使用的方法来指导全班讨论，同时使用创新的模型为基础的课程，在中学生物学和高中物理科学。研究的三个主要平行轨道是： 记录学生在讨论中的意象推理过程。 二：确定课堂教学策略，促进视觉模型的学习。 III：确定特定的视觉建模策略（例如，在小型辅导小组和全教室中使用动画和模拟）该项目响应了描述介于纯发现和纯讲座方法之间的引导式探究方法的需求。总的来说，该项目将有助于连接三个重要的理论领域：意象心理模拟的认知动力学;在全班讨论中师生共建的动力学;以及基于模型的概念转变学习理论。这些理论成果将有助于教学实践，提供一个更连贯的框架内，教师和其他教育工作者可以作出明智的决定，课堂策略和教学工具，如动画和模拟。