Preparing Students for Citizenship: Fostering Critical Thinking and Problem-solving Skills through Quantitative Reasoning and Scientific Literacy

为学生成为公民做好准备：通过定量推理和科学素养培养批判性思维和解决问题的能力

• 批准号: 0737533
• 负责人: James Myers
• 金额: $ 14.05万
• 依托单位: University of Wyoming
• 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: 2007-12-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0737533&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Students; Citizenship; Fostering; Critical

Interdisciplinary (99)By integrating natural sciences and using global context to create social science connections, a new science course, Global Sustainability: Managing Earth's Resources, and its Web site are preparing STEM and non-STEM students for active citizenship. These focus on improving critical thinking and problem-solving while providing training in literacies necessary to master scientific content. With improved quantitative reasoning and scientific understanding, students are better understanding global sustainability. Course materials are being disseminated as learning objects via a project Web portal. By building learning objects of variable scope (animations to case studies), the project is promoting adoption and adaptation by instructors teaching sustainability to different audiences from a variety of perspectives. Assessment and evaluation of course pedagogy and material on student learning are on-going project components. Project materials and results are being publicized through faculty development workshops and short courses at national meetings of scientific and educational societies.By presenting science in context, the project is demonstrating the importance of scientific literacy and quantitative reasoning, enticing students into STEM fields and encouraging students to view sustainability from different global perspectives. It is also showing how societal problems must be addressed by tempering science, technology and engineering with social, political and cultural norms.By catching students early in their academic careers, the project is improving attitudes toward STEM fields and global sustainability. Associated faculty development efforts are providing disciplinary experts with the pedagogical knowledge and understanding necessary to develop meaningful and lasting learning experiences for their students. Dissemination of learning objects is assisting instructors in creating innovative and effective introductory science courses anchored on a global perspective. Simultaneously, the project is facilitating a national dialog between educators devoted to improving quantitative reasoning and scientific literacy via the investigation of global sustainability.

跨学科（99）通过整合自然科学和利用全球背景建立社会科学联系，一门新的科学课程，全球可持续发展：管理地球资源，及其网站正在为STEM和非STEM学生积极公民做好准备。这些课程侧重于提高批判性思维和解决问题的能力，同时提供掌握科学内容所需的素养培训。随着定量推理和科学理解的提高，学生们对全球可持续性有了更好的理解。课程材料作为学习对象通过项目门户网站传播。通过建立可变范围的学习对象（动画到案例研究），该项目正在促进教师从不同的角度向不同的受众教授可持续发展的采用和适应。课程教学方法和学生学习材料的评估和评价是正在进行的项目组成部分。目前正在通过教师发展讲习班和科学和教育学会全国会议的短期课程宣传项目材料和成果。通过在背景中展示科学，该项目展示了科学素养和定量推理的重要性，吸引学生进入STEM领域，并鼓励学生从不同的全球视角看待可持续发展。它还展示了如何通过调和科学、技术和工程与社会、政治和文化规范来解决社会问题。通过在学生的学术生涯早期抓住他们，该项目正在改善对STEM领域和全球可持续性的态度。相关的教师发展努力为学科专家提供必要的教学知识和理解，为他们的学生提供有意义和持久的学习经验。学习对象的传播有助于教师在全球视野的基础上创建创新和有效的科学入门课程。同时，该项目正在促进致力于通过全球可持续性调查提高定量推理和科学素养的教育工作者之间的全国对话。